Kevin Kavanagh
Aileen Murphy
Written by Ingrid Lyons on September 2, 2018 . Posted in News
Aileen Murphy will take part in a group show titled, THE SAME AS EVER, BUT MORE SO at Braunsfelder, Cologne.
Curated by Miriam Bettin
September 8th 2018 – October 28th 2018
Opening September 7th From 2pm
More information available here.
Alice Maher
Written by Ingrid Lyons on August 28, 2018 . Posted in Uncategorized
Vox Materia
Crawford Art Gallery Emmet Place Cork
7 September – 24 November 2018
Modern Galleries & Screening Room
Vox Materia comprises a multi-part installation of sculpture and works on paper. Stemming from Maher's consideration of a 12th Century mermaid carving, this show meditates on voice and silence. The mermaid is a hybrid creature that transgresses boundaries between human and animal, and is often associated with traumatic loss of voice. This new work is presented alongside Cassandra's Necklace (2012), Maher's first live-action film, in which the mythical protagonist wanders an arid, glittering landscape in search of her voice, literally a necklace of unspeaking tongues.
Both bodies of work demonstrate Maher's ongoing exploration of the burdens of silence and silencing in her recent practice.
Vox Materia was commissioned by The Source Arts Centre, Thurles, with support from Creative Ireland and Tipperary County Council.
Neven Lahart
Written by Ingrid Lyons on August 28, 2018 . Posted in News
WIELS Art Book Fair 2018
Avenue Van Volxemlaan 354
1190 Brussels (BE)
8-9.9.2018
Vic Sims of the Hollow Gram by Nevan Lahart will feature in WIELS Art Book Fair 2018*, alongside new and recent works by Pauline Curnier Jardin, Stefaan Dheedene, Ben Van den Berghe & Alexey Shlyk, Andrew Norman Wilson – and some Fremdkörpern.
Saturday 8** & Sunday 9.9.2018, 11:00-18:00
www.wiels.org
* WIELS organizes for the 4th time the WIELS Art Book Fair presenting artists, publishers & collectors who offer art books, artists' books, catalogues, periodicals & other printed matter to the public.
** WIELS won the AICA-Belgium's Best Exhibition Award 2017 for 'The Absent Museum'. The prize will be awarded on the first day of the WIELS Art Book Fair at 11:30, accompanied by a speech and reception.
Elaine Byrne
Elaine Byrne will take part in a group exhibition opening tonight at the ISCP, New York
Artists in the exhibition: Elaine Byrne, Danilo Correale, Simone Couto, Alexis Dahan, Furen Dai, Jude Griebel, Joshua Liebowitz, Martha Skou, and Raul Valverde.
Never Take a Vacation with an Artist Who Collects the Same Stuff You Do is a group exhibition featuring the work of the nine artists in residence in ISCP's Ground Floor Program. The presentation focuses on vacation and leisure time, a premise that the artists developed in collaboration. Works include Martha Skou's audio-visual interpretation of a recent summer road trip, where she entered a community as a foreigner and left as a member; Simone Couto's cross-stitch of a surveillance sign which reminds the viewer that privacy is a rare and precious commodity even while on vacation; and Danilo Correale's 1001 Ways to Live Without Working (after Tuli Kupferberg), a performance activated by a screensaver, which liberates the ISCP front desk staff from working for a period of time. Set to open during the leisurely days of summer, this exhibition aims to lull the viewer into a state of relaxation.
Bounty | Diana Copperwhite and Aileen Murphy | 09.08-01.09.2018
Written by Ingrid Lyons on August 8, 2018 . Posted in Exhibitions
I Eat You
Polishing in Feb
Indian ink and acrylic ink on paper
Gouache and acrylic on paper
Chalk pastel and Indian ink on paper
Romping
Acrylic, gouache, Indian ink and pencil on paper
Wind on Side
Feels, Reels and Kneels
Diana Copperwhite and Aileen Murphy
Diana Copperwhite
Electric Aura Without a Self
Orbital Part Two
Silent Tornado
Sun Streak
The Hug
Untitled II
Untitled I
DoubleE
Oil and beeswax on canvas
Of one fever
Oil, beeswax and confetti on canvas in two parts
58 x 58 (top), 90 x 120cm(bottom)
click on main image to open lightbox
August 9th – September 1st, 2018
Opening reception Thursday August 9th
Bounty comprises recent work by Diana Copperwhite and Aileen Murphy. The impetus to show the work side by side has arisen from the mutual admiration and affinities that exist between the two artists in their subject matter and their handling of the medium of paint.
Both Copperwhite and Murphy create works that incorporate aspects of abstraction and figuration and both painters are fully taken up with the act of painting and the materiality of paint. There are also similarities in their approach and while the paintings often appear intuitive and whimsical, they evolve through layers of assertion and contradiction. Their scale and the movement within these works demonstrate a spontaneous and frenetic pace of activity that is further heightened by their relation to each other in the space.
Island Life | Summer Group Exhibition 18 | 05.07-28.07.2018
Written by Ingrid Lyons on July 10, 2018 . Posted in Exhibitions
Summer Group Exhibition 18
Installation view with work by Sonia Shiel and Stephanie Deady
Installation view with work by Sonia Shiel and Stephen Loughman
Installation view with work by Mark Swords, Sonia Shiel, Stephanie Deady and Salvatore of Lucan
Installation view with work by Salvatore of Lucan and William O'Neill
Installation view with work by Julia Dubsky, Sonia Shiel, Stephen Loughman, Mark Swords and Sonia Shiel
Installation view with work by Salvatore of Lucan, Marcel Vidal and Cecelia Danell
Installation view with work by Marcel Vidal, Cecelia Danell and Robert Armstrong
Installation view with work by Pat Byrne and Kathy Tynan
Installation view with work by Salvatore of Lucan, William O'Neill and Kathy Tynan
Installation view with work by Joe Scullion, Marcel Vidal and Lesley Ann O'Connell
Installation view with work by Marcel Vidal and Lesley Ann O'Connell
Summer Group Exhibition 2018
5th – 28th July
Opening Reception Thursday 5th July at 6pm
Sonia Shiel, Kathy Tynan, Marcel Vidal, Mark Swords, Salvatore of Lucan, Joe Scullion, Robert Armstrong, Julia Dubsky, Lesley-Ann O'Connell, Pat Byrne, Stephen Loughman, Cecilia Danell, William O'Neill and Stephanie Deady
Island Life comprises work by artists who are making and showing paintings at the moment. It is intended as a celebration of where painting is at now in Ireland, with a mixture of emerging and more established artists.
Painting exists in an increasingly sophisticated visual world that sometimes seems to have a diminishing interest in the possibilities of paint. Island Life is concerned with the idea that, within the medium of paint there are opportunities for the individual to question the situation we live in and the resources we share. The paintings in this exhibition address the human condition and each of the artists suggests the capacity of the medium of paint to encompass both personal and universal concerns.
Stephen Loughman
Written by Ingrid Lyons on July 10, 2018 . Posted in News
Proven Answers
Exhibition Launch:
Thursday 19 July 2018 | 6pm
Exhibition Continues: Friday 20 July – Saturday 15 September 2018
Stephen Loughman will present a solo exhibition incorporating painting, sculpture and video at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios with an opening reception on the 19th of July. Proven Answers takes its title from the opening lines to the 1969 film version of Ray Bradbury's short story The Illustrated Man and uses narrative strands from this film as its basis.
Full press release available on the Temple Bar Gallery + Studios website.
Ulrich Vogl
Written by Ingrid Lyons on June 23, 2018 . Posted in News
Ulrich Vogl will take part in the group show BLANK BLANK in Alte Sparkasse, Berlin, opening June 22 at 7pm and running until July 1.
Other artists include A/A, Halil Altindere, Carsten Becker, Ekaterina Burlyga, Catch a Falling Knife Collective, Yvon Chabrowski, Mark Clare, Merve Çanakci, Ali M. Demirel, Maurice Doherty, Mona El Gammal, Ingo Gerken, Ivana Franke, Caroline Kryzecki, Pierre-Etiene Morelle, Özgür Erkök Moroder & Steffi Weismann, Barbara Müller, Sladjan Nedeljkovic, Jakob Roepke, Nicolás Rupcich, The Swan Collective, Pilvi Takala, Philip Topolovac & Markus Proschek, Chompunuch Vanichayanguranon & Theerawat Klangjareonchai, and Maria Viftrup. The exhibition is curated by Ece Pazarbasi and Stephan Klee.
BANK,
– about new authenticity –
There is an empty bank at Karl Marx Straße, it still stands as the relict of the financial vision of the past centuries. Now the employers have left the building, the vaults are open and the cash machines are dismantled. This institution of faith in cash, trust in money and illusion of prosperity for the many not for the few has moved out. Within this empty shell, one cannot help asking, what else is substantial nowadays, what else is echt?
In a world interspersed with spectacle, illusions, hollow visions and unfulfilled dreams, it does not get only harder to authenticate a thing, but also echt changes its meaning dynamically. Using the bank as a collective laboratory of visions and statements regarding the meaning of realness today in our society, the exhibition brings together 32 works from 25 artists and groups around the sub themes of matter, body and authenticity.
Further information can be found here
Mick O'Dea
Portraits by Mick O'Dea feature as part of Seamus Nolan's Traveller Collection at the Hugh Lane
DUBLIN CITY GALLERY THE HUGH LANE
21 June 2018 – 23 September 2018
In 2017, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane and Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, came together for the first time to commission a significant socially engaged artist's project in Dublin. Following submissions by artists from all of the CAPP partners, Irish artist Seamus Nolan's proposal was successful. Seamus Nolan's exhibition will comprise of archival material that forms the Irish Travelling People: a Resource Collection and which is borrowed from the Special Collections of Ulster University as well as paintings by Mick O'Dea from the Martin Folan collection at Pavee Point.
In the early 1990s, community activist Martin Folan approached artist Mick O'Dea about working with Travellers. O'Dea painted a series of nine close-up portraits of Traveller men and women, without any props or background identifying them as members of the Traveller community. He painted them, in his own words 'without any emphasis on their status in life.' Photo: Left to Right Artist Mick O'Dea with Martin Collins, Director Pavee Point.
More information available on the Hugh Lane website and on the Pavee Point website.
Kilkenny Festival Portraits 2015-17 | Mick O'Dea | 07.06-30.06.2018
Written by Ingrid Lyons on June 5, 2018 . Posted in Exhibitions
Kilkenny Festival Portraits 2015-17
Kilkenny Festival Mick O'Dea
Portraits 2015-17
Installation View 2018
7th – 30th June, 2018
From 2015 -17 Mick O'Dea was visual artist-in-residence at Kilkenny Arts Festival. For this unique three-year project he painted daily oil portraits of leading Irish and international artists, performers, actors, musicians and writers taking part in the Festival, while also documenting performances with action sketches. An audience joined Mick in the studio each day to observe and participate, discussing the work in progress with the artist and his sitters.
-Eugene Downes, Director of Kilkenny Arts Festival
This series of portraits began as part of a project with the Kilkenny Arts Festival and continued to grow as a series of collaborative events between the artist, the subject and the audience. Over the course of the festival Mick O'Dea painted the portraits of numerous public figures associated with the festival including poets Paula Meehan and Paul Muldoon, musicians Denis Cahill and Martin Hayes, seán nós dancer Colin Dunne and actors Simon Callow and Marie Mullen. The psychiatrist Ivor Browne also sat for O'Dea and can be seen in the above image taking a break from the intense sittings, which often lasted up to seven hours. Artist, Richard Gorman who attended as an audience member noted comically, that contradictory to the adage, it was most interesting to watch paint dry! Thus highlighting a curiosity about O'Dea's painting process as well as the dynamic between the artist, the sitter and those who have come to watch.
In the creation of a portrait painting, a durational dialogue that incorporates both conversation and body language arises between the artist and the sitter. The audience bears witness to the subtleties and nuances that occur in the process of capturing the details that make a convincing portrait – an intensity of eyes, the clasping of hands and the crossing of ankles. Each sitter's pose differing in myriad ways. O'Dea has long described the process of portrait painting as a reciprocal one that requires a mutual understanding and a certain level of trust where each sees eye to eye – very much in a literal sense, but this dynamic is broadened by the presence of an audience, many of whom are aware of the character of those being painted through their creative output. The process evolves organically as gestures and flourishes appear on the canvas and the audience glimpse aspects of the artist's methods.
During the first two years the sittings took place in the James Stephens Military Barracks and in the final year of the residency they took place in the only remaining Home Rule Club in the country. Throughout Kilkenny Festival Portraits, O'Dea makes reference to the history of portrait painting and its role as a social signifier to display wealth and prestige. Ireland is a country, which significantly does not have a history of patronage in the same way that other European countries do. O'Dea subtly alludes to this by celebrating the countries literary figures and poets, in a gesture that suggests that the traditions of literature, music and art in this country have a unique history and legacy that is upheld by those depicted in these vibrant portraits.
Written by Ingrid Lyons on May 30, 2018 . Posted in News
And still, like dust, I'll rise
Curated by Vivienne Dick
June 1st – July 6th 2018
Galway Arts Centre
47 Dominick Street, Galway City
Alice Maher will take part in a group exhibition titled And still, like dust, I'll rise. The show curated by Vivienne Dick at Galway Arts Centre opens on Friday 1st of June. Taking its title from Maya Angelou's poem Still I Rise, the exhibition presents new and existing work in various media from a range of Irish and international artists: Alexis Adler, Dara Birnbaum, Vivienne Dick, Olivia Eberstadt, Dragana Jurisic, Breda Lynch, Eileen MacDonagh, Margaret Maiorana, Selma Makela, Isabel Nolan, Kathy Prendergast and Suzanne Walsh.
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Written by Ingrid Lyons on May 23, 2018 . Posted in News, Uncategorized
D MUSEUM
2018/05/03 – 2018/10/28
Ulrich Vogl is currently showing work at D MUSEUM, Seoul, South Korea alongside Martin Parr and Yoshinori Mizutani.
The exhibition, titled 'Weather:오늘, 당신의 날씨는 어떤가요?' Continues until the 28th of October 2018.
Sonia Shiel
Luan Gallery
Grace Park Rd, Athlone, Co. Westmeath
6:00 PM, Thursday the 31st of May
Sonia Shiel will take part in a group exhibition titled, Elevate. The exhibition will officially be opened by the Director of the Arts Council Orlaith Mc Bride
Elevate also includes works by: Jenny Brady, Willie Doherty, Damien Flood, David Godbold,
Katie Holten, Jesse Jones, Eithne Jordan, Clare Langan, Eoin Mc Hugh,
Julie Merriman, Richard Mosse and Daphne Wright
Achar | Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh | 26.04-26.05.2018
Written by Ingrid Lyons on May 3, 2018 . Posted in Exhibitions
Achar III
Achar IV
Achar IX
Achar X
Achar VI
Achar XI
Achar II
Achar V
Achar I
Achar VII
Achar VIII
Achar (Achar XII)
Achar (Achar X)
Achar (Achar II)
Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh
April 26th – May 26th 2018
We again observe the complete preoccupation with paint itself, with the simple play of colours against one another. Many of the recent paintings pulled out from stacks that afternoon in Bray seemed to follow this logic, canvases filled to bursting with dragged daubs of complementary colours: swampy greens and starchy whites, mauves and greys. Within these busy spaces, something like a pattern emerges, aided along by the imperfect repetition of brush strokes — the natural drag of the hand, perhaps, or the physical impact of brush against the canvas skin. Typically, this patterned plane sits within another, bounded in by the sharp border of a second limit point. A border within a border, then, again bringing our attention of the weird leaps of fancy made possible by colour and line. Even within this doubly negated space, space and time appear to happen as though by accident. The eye tracks a line from colour to line, generating a weird rhythm that is something very close to a second kind of, painterly, sight. Incidences like these mean I am constantly surprised when I look and think about painting. Not by the technical skill required to paint, exactly, but the way that skill is communicated through paint. Often, this process — something like the way water tenses with cold, becoming ice — remains indistinct: we are only left to say, this is a good painting, or such and such paints well. Perhaps, then, when we describe someone as a painter's painter it is exactly this mystery that is being brought centre stage. The point at which paint itself assumes something like autonomy, becoming a conduit for skill. And, when I look at and think about Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh's paintings, I have to remind myself of this point: while painting might be a preoccupation of mine, her works prompt me to accept the limits of my own understanding. And probably to fasten me still further to paint'.
Extracted from an essay titled, A Painter's Painter by Rebecca O'Dwyer
Written by Ingrid Lyons on April 24, 2018 . Posted in News, Uncategorized
Elaine Byrne's work Whenceness has been selected to be shown at the Irish Consulate in New York for the visit of President Michael D Higgins on 27th April, 2018
Written by Ingrid Lyons on April 11, 2018 . Posted in News
EVA International
14th April — 8th July 2018
LIMERICK CITY
Alice Maher will be showing new work at EVA International as part of the Artists' Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment.
The Artists' Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment was set up in 2015 by Cecily Brennan, Alice Maher, Eithne Jordan, and Paula Meehan. It began as an online campaign appealing to fellow artists, writers, musicians, and actors to put their names to a statement calling for a repeal of Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland (Article 40.3.3) that equates the life of a pregnant woman with that of the foetus. Three thousand artists have signed the petition so far, demanding the repeal of a law that has caused great mismanagement of women's health care in Ireland and is a violation of international human rights. The aim of the campaign group is to promote national and international awareness of the restrictive reproductive laws of Ireland and to encourage and inspire other groups and activists to use cultural means to promote social change.
DOUBLE TAKE
The Glucksman
Collections and Context
30 March – 8 July 2018
Sonia Shiel will exhibit work alongside Amanda Coogan, Martin Healy, Fiona Kelly, Alice Maher, Suzanne Mooney, Brian O'Doherty, Garrett Phelan, The Project Twins, and Sonia Shiel Curated by Chris Clarke and Fiona Kearney
Over the past 14 years, the Glucksman has been privileged to show many ambitious site-specific works by Irish artists. DOUBLE TAKE: Collections and Context looks back to some of these innovative moments within our exhibition history by recreating displays by artists who are also represented in the UCC Art Collection. From dramatic gallery interventions to intimate moments of architectural response, art installations from previous Glucksman exhibitions are now shown together with the artist's work from the UCC Art Collection. In doing so, DOUBLE TAKE invites viewers to consider how we see and understand art in different contexts. The significant presentation of Brian O'Doherty's works in the Sisk Gallery is part of a larger focus on the artist's work generated through the One, Here, Now restoration project at the Sirius Arts Centre which is on display in Cobh throughout 2018. DOUBLE TAKE is funded by University College Cork, the Arts Council of Ireland and private philanthropy through Cork University Foundation.
Find out about visiting the Lewis Glucksman Gallery here.
Vanessa Donoso López / Stephanie Deady
An Act of Hospitality can only be Poetic
Group Exhibition at Highlanes Gallery,
'An Act of Hospitality can only be poetic' – Jacques Derrida
Stephanie Deady and Vanessa Donoso López will exhibit work in a group show alongside Samuel Laurence Cunnane, Willie Doherty, Anthony Haughey, Dragana Jurisc, Ronan McCrea, Isabel Nolan, Mairead O'hEocha, Kathy Prendergast, Tamsin Snow & Sarah Tynan.
Inspired by a quote by Jacques Derrida, this exhibition curated by Linda Shevlin and Aoife Ruane seeks to present works that responds to themes of hospitality, identity, friendship and the multitude of journeys and conflicts encountered to attain them.
Organised in association with Age and Opportunity as part of the nationwide Bealtaine Festival – celebrating the arts and creativity as we age.
Sean Lynch
International Art in Cornwall
Sean Lynch will take part in an exhibition titled, Groundwork alongside Francis Alÿs, Janet Cardiff, Adam Chodzko, Tacita Dean, Manon de Boer, Andy Holden and Rosemary Lee.
Groundwork has four strands: a season of international contemporary art opening in May 2018, field trips, residential workshops and an ambitious learning programme. Supported by funding through Arts Council England's Ambition for Excellence scheme, Groundwork is organised by CAST (the Helston-based Cornubian Arts and Science Trust) in partnership with Kestle Barton, Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange and Tate St Ives. With an emphasis on moving image, sound and performance, the programme of exhibitions and events in 2018 includes presentations of important new commissions and acclaimed works by internationally celebrated artists in venues and outdoor sites across West Cornwall.
I shall change the way things are ordered | Vanessa Donoso López | 22.03-21.04.2018
Written by Ingrid Lyons on March 21, 2018 . Posted in Exhibitions
'Study of possible plants of youth I…'
clay ink from Alanís, Sevilla, Spain, Watercolor, watercolor pencil, acrylic ink and ink on Fabriano paper
'The Forest of Cedar…'
clay ink from Soria, Girona and Sevilla, Spain, watercolor, watercolor pencil, acrylic ink, hand marbled paper and ink on Fabriano paper
'Study for possible clay arrangements seen from an imaginary microscope III'
clay ink from Utrilla, Soria, Spain, Watercolor, acrylic ink, and Ink on Fabriano paper
'Utanapisthy's wife clay head…'
watercolor, acrylic ink, and Ink on Fabriano paper
'Enkidu fighting the Bull of Heaven…'
clay ink from Soria, Girona and Sevilla, Spain, watercolor, watercolor pencil and ink on Fabriano paper
'Aruru making Enkidu out of clay and spit…'
clay ink from Soria, Spain, watercolor and ink on Fabriano paper
'Possible plant of youth I…'
clay ink from Camallera, Girona, Spain, Watercolor and ink on Fabriano paper
'Animals on the ark …'
' Possible plant of youth II…'
clay ink from Utrilla, Soria, Spain, Watercolor and ink on Fabriano paper
'Study for possible clay arrangements …'
ink and acrylic ink on found paper
'Eternal, Utanaphisty and his wife…'
clay ink from Alanís de la Sierra, Sevilla, Spain, watercolor and ink on Fabriano paper
'Five of the characters in the Epic…'
clay ink, camallera, Girona Spain, watercolor, acrylic ink, and ink on watercolor paper
'By day and by night his tyranny grows harsher'
clay ink from Soris, Girona and Sevilla, Spain, Watercolour, ink on watercolour paper
Vanessa Donoso López
I shall change the way things are ordered
March 22nd – April 21st, 2018
Opening reception Thursday March 22nd at 6pm.
'Initially transcribed in Sumerian on 12 clay tablets, the material link between Gilgamesh and its birthing substance is further compounded in this exhibition. It is also fitting that this most pliable of mediums is paired with a piece of fictive narrative that, having undergone countless translations, exists now as a series of conflicting versions. Donoso López's interpretations are straightforwardly depictive. In both drawing and sculpture, the characters regard us with uniform expressions; we see Gilgamesh, known to be a cruel king, exert his authority with a brute physicality. We see Utnapishtim and his wife – depicted alongside the animals they ushered onto the ark – who Gilgamesh approaches in his search for the youth restoring flower. The flower itself is portrayed as a simple floral substance without reference to its potential magical attributes.
Concurrent with this literal quality, however, is a marked blend of textual interpretation and embodied experience, the substantive crux of the work being the clay retrieved from the three sites across Spain. Integral to how they function in the gallery is the extended movement through space their making entailed, a repeated transitioning across borders geographical and political. Now directly embodying these locations, the works are rich with incidental detail and haptic content, with close and recurring contact: the viewer's experience, though primarily ocular, is tangibly charged with the artist's travels, with each micro-instance of petrichor in the studio as the clay, upon being wettened to be mixed with ink, releases a rain-rich scent'.
-Extracted from On Clay and Transitional Spaces, an essay by Sue Rainsford. On Clay and Transitional Spaces was commissioned on the occasion of I shall change the way things are ordered.
Full text available here.
Written by Ingrid Lyons on March 15, 2018 . Posted in News
The Source Arts Centre,
Cathedral Street,
Thurles,
County Tipperary.
Curated by Pluck Projects.
Exhibition opening at 7.30 p.m. on Thursday 29th March.
Vox Materia comprises a multi-part installation of sculpture and works on paper. Stemming from Maher's consideration of a 12th Century mermaid carving at nearby Kilcooley Abbey, this show meditates on voice and silence. The mermaid is a hybrid creature that transgresses boundaries between human and animal, and is often associated with traumatic loss of voice. Maher deploys the mermaid not as a motif, but as an ambiguous and powerful conceptual tool to explore ideas of language, embodiment, agency, and autonomy.
For further information please visit the Source Arts Centre website.
Elysian Fields | Paul McKinley | 15.02-16.03.2018
Written by Ingrid Lyons on February 17, 2018 . Posted in Exhibitions
Aiolia
Amoudi
Asphodelus
Fyli
Paul McKinley
February 15th – March 16th 2018
'Elysian Fields' refers to an afterlife in Greek mythology, a place where the souls of gods and heroes as well as those associated with them would remain after death. Greece is a country dealing with mass displacement of people from war torn countries and though economically unstable, their contribution to aiding those who have crossed the Aegean Sea merited a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2016, dedicated to all Greek Islanders.
Within this exhibition, Paul McKinley considers modern conceptions of Greece as compared with its ancient history. His paintings feature aspects of Greek landscape; islands, mountains and cliff edges, often informed by compositions within art historical paintings. These landscapes are created from an amalgamation of various places and as such they are not one specific location, but rather an essence of place.
Within Elysian Fields, McKinley's work charts the present-day representation of Greek landscape while the titles of the paintings subtly refer to parallels between heroes of ancient Greek mythology and the unwritten contemporary epic, fashioned from the plight of individuals in exile.
Stephanie Deady
Written by Ingrid Lyons on February 9, 2018 . Posted in Artists
'Stephanie Deady works from photographs, found images and from memory to create paintings of her surroundings, both experienced and recalled. On wooden panels, the paintings depict part of Deady's studio, the counter top in the kitchen of a friend's house and the corner of a living room in Italy, among other alcoves. Within these compositions small and precise brush strokes present austere and pared back scenes. To counter this, other paintings present landscapes and interiors, fragmented by gestural brushstrokes. Deady often focuses on one image and through close observation; she presents various iterations of the same space. In this way, subtle changes in the representation of the space become apparent. Minor adjustments to the perspective and horizon allude to a concern and curiosity with how a place is transformed in its representation.'
Extracted from Primed Vision by Ingrid Lyons
Links to previous shows
Primed Vision, Kevin Kavanagh, 2018
view artist's website
Written by Ingrid Lyons on February 2, 2018 . Posted in News
Aileen Murphy at Deborah Schamoni, Frankfurt
Naked Cheerleaders in My Chest, a solo show by Aileen Murphy is on view from 02.12.17- 17.02.18 at Deborah Shamoni, Frankfurt.
More info and text by Ingrid Lyons available here.
Written by Ingrid Lyons on January 30, 2018 . Posted in News
Diana Copperwhite at dlr Lexicon
Opens Saturday 3rd of February at 2pm
Diana Copperwhite will present new work in a joint exhibition at dlr Lexicon. This highly anticipated series will be presented alongside design pieces by Shirley Copperwhite in a collaboration that has evolved from both sisterhood and art/design crossover. The exhibition, titled Double Vision will take place at dlr Lexicon on Saturday the 3rd of February at 2pm. An informal talk and tour with the artists will take place before the opening at 1.30pm.
Artist in Conversation
Wednesday 21 February, 6.45-7.45pm Project Room
Join Diana Copperwhite in conversation with TCD Professor in Art History and Director of TRIAC Yvonne Scott; they will talk about the themes and concepts in Diana's work.
More information available on the dlr Lexicon website.
Kathy Tynan
Cité Internationale Des Arts Winners 2018
TBG+S Nominated Artist Kathy Tynan
Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios are delighted to announce that artist Kathy Tynan has been awarded a residency in Paris as part of the Cité Internationale des Arts programme.
More than 60 artists from around the world will be in residence in 2018 at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. The residency programme is open to foreign artists, who wish to develop a project of research in Paris during a period of three or six months. These artists may be identified by the Institut Français, Alliances Françaises, cultural services of the French Embassies or French and foreign cultural organisations.
Kathy will work from a studio in Paris for three months in 2018. During her residency, Kathy will spend time discerning the recurrent motifs and patterns of the City. She will focus particularly on interventional man-made marks which feel strange or out of place within the urban landscape.
'Dead Her' (2018)
The Void, Derry
Saturday 20th January, 4pm
Image Credit:Courtesy of the Artist, Sonia Shiel
Still from Dead Her, 2018 – a narrated presentation.
Sonia Shiel is a Dublin born visual artist, whose works synthesise object, image and sound in performative and immersive installations. At Void, Shiel will premiere Dead Her, a narrated visual presentation, written, directed and performed by the artist. Dead Her is one of a number of recent narrative works that will feature in her new book of short stories each exploring the pursuit of creative agency, – or living – with and without art. It will be published in 2018, by UCD's Parity Studios Press.
Shiel has had exhibitions at The Crawford Art Gallery, Cork; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; the Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork; ISCPNew York; Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin; Kulturbunker, Frankfurt; Rua Red, Dublin; the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny and the RHA Gallery I and II, among many others. Recent performances and readings include Treeline, TBGS, Artbox and the NCAD Gallery. She has been the recipient of many awards, and international residencies, with the support of the Arts Council and Culture Ireland, and has completed recent fellowships at Fordham Law School, New York and the School of English, Drama and Film at UCD.
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