Exhibition<br>Ida Applebroog<i> Portraits</I>

Ida Applebroog (1929–2023) spent most of her life in New York, making art that channelled a fierce anger about inequalities in society, never shying away from potentially uncomfortable subjects. This exhibition spans the artist’s career from the late 1960s until her death in 2023. In 2018 Applebroog created Angry Birds of America, shown downstairs, to reflect upon the tumult of the first Trump presidency. She drew parallels between the politics of this era and the violence of ornithology, in which birds are often killed to be studied. Her painted and sculpted bird portraits and specimens here bristle with an intense energy and anger. The space upstairs is populated with a crowd of large drawings of naked figures, entitled The Ethics of Desire. Collaged from fashion magazines, undressed and redrawn, the figures confront us with our own relationship with commercial images of others and the ethics of our gaze upon them. Alongside these figures is Monalisa, a house-like structure plastered