Thomas Agrinier is a self-taught painter whose work explores subjective vision, the body in motion, the complexity of human experience, and themes from art history. His practice reinvigorates figurative painting through depictions of action, as a way to represent the inherent instability of life. In contrast to much figurative painting that conveys figures at stasis, frozen in the space and time of the painting, Agrinier pursues a figurative art that makes the viewer feel their own flesh more viscerally, and thus represents life itself more fully. His paintings seek to connect body and mind by depicting figures as living and constantly in metamorphosis, often evoking a sense of risk, joy, and play, where the viewer is pulled into a mysterious, highly-charged unfolding narrative.