ROXY PEROXYDE 

ANIMUS 

solo exhibition

April 4th - 27th, 2025

Opening Reception: First Friday, April 4th, 2025 ​

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Carl Jung (the founder of analytical psychology) would probably say we’re all a little severed. In 1912, he coined a term for our repressed desires, instincts, flaws and fears, calling it our shadow—our innie—the person we’ve cut-off from the world. Shadow work involves (re)integration, exploring those unconscious aspects of our minds and freeing them, knowing them, maybe even loving them so we may better know and love ourselves. 

 

Roxy Peroxyde (aka Roxanne Sauriol, b. 1987) tells us her new series ANIMUS started there. Well, not really there. It started with a dream she had of a piece of gum stuck in her hair, which led her there. A messy, clingy mass of meant-to-be-discarded gunk that simply wouldn’t go away…kind of like our shadows. 

 

“I like to let the audience experience [my] work raw, without tinted glasses or knowing the ‘right’ answer…[but] this series explores the female shadow and its integration. I titled it ANIMUS after its Jungian meaning, representing the unconscious masculine within the female psyche…I’ve been working on authenticity and peeling the endless layers of the ego for the past year.  ANIMUS addresses the disharmony between the feminine and masculine. Each painting represents six of the seven energy centers or chakras and the ways in which my own blockages and experiences with them come about.” - Roxy Peroxyde

 

There’s been a lot of buzz around Roxy and her work of late. Her hyperreal, feminist portraits strike a chord not only because they are so exquisitely rendered but also because of their raw and irreverent attitude. Like perfection on a sweaty dance floor, vibrant neon pumps her pared down subjects to the foreground, so that every highlight, every detail, every wisp of hair feels intentional and layered with meaning—and it is. Roxy works with a professional studio photographer to stage models and props for her reference photos, an invaluable practice that affords her total control over each symbolic image and underscores the dramatic realism she’s able to achieve. In this way, Roxy’s female archetypes do not just wrestle with their inner shadows, demons and desires, they become them. She gives them power, and challenges the viewer to see the woman for her truth. 

 

Roxy Peroxyde is a widely recognized oil painter based in Montreal. She began painting in 2008 as a single mother after the birth of her only daughter, which she considers to be the driving force of her career. Totally self-taught, her work has been exhibited and collected internationally since 2021. ANIMUS is Roxy’s first solo feature with Arch Enemy Arts in Philadelphia. 

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ANIMUS will be on view from April 4th - 27th, 2025
Sold works will begin to ship the week starting May 4th, unless other rush shipping arrangements have been made. 

Items marked with a red dot have already been sold.

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