[1] Cudahy's approach is both figurative and abstract and takes inspiration from a breadth of source material ranging from personal photographs, movie stills, queer archival images and ephemera, and art history.
[3] Cudahy's paintings are often a hybrid of visual histories blending various figures from art history and queer photography into contemporary scenes such as portraiture, domestic spaces, or social sites.
Cudahy explains this in an interview, "The transformation and degradation an image is subjected to through reproduction creates a language itself with codes and signifiers.
This can be the pixelation of an image repeating itself online or a cast shadow of a photographic flash placed in a painting.
The translation is my brain working through the image; the painting is a record of thoughts.