Good Mother Gallery Los Angeles is pleased to present Bidet Duvet, a two-person exhibition featuring New York-based artists Henry Swanson and Sam Branden. The exhibition brings their distinct yet conceptually aligned practices to the West Coast, creating a collision of humor, abstraction, and cultural nostalgia.
Though differing in medium, Swanson’s oil paintings brimming with wit and Branden’s sewn, semi-sculptural abstractions, the artists share a raw, unfiltered approach to art-making. Their work plays with boundaries between figuration and abstraction, existing in a space that feels both bombastic and deliberate, polished and unapologetically unrefined.
Coming from the middle of the country, Swanson from Texas and Branden from Ohio, the duo shares a cultural shorthand shaped by early 2000s Americana, contrasted with the contemporary street culture of New York City, where they’ve lived and worked for years. Bidet Duvet, a playful yet pointed title, reflects their irreverent attitude toward traditional structures in art, much like the rejection of academic salons in historical painting movements.
