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13/7/2000

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Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

Works by John Currin, Cheryl Donegan, Ellen Gallagher and Sean Landers

Curated by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith

The Kerlin Gallery has invited Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith to curate an exhibition at the gallery from 14 July - 2 September 2000.

This exhibition brings together for the first time anywhere works by four internationally renowned artists who came to prominence in New York during the 1990s. The show takes as its point of departure their common but varied experience of the Irish-American diaspora. This is a topic addressed directly in certain works by Cheryl Donegan and Seán Landers. It is, however, referred to only obliquely by Ellen Gallagher and not at all by John Currin.

The work exhibited by all four artists nevertheless conspires to mediate between conflicting vectors of dispersal and community, disparity and relatedness distance and intimacy. This is strangely true of Currin's fascinated exploration of desire, estrangement and excess, Donegan's wittily subversive ruminations on representation, sexuality and identity, Gallagher's elaboration of a complex, racially hybrid cosmology, and Landers' multifarious charting and chronicling of a world in which he regularly appears to be, in Seamus Heaney's phrase, "unhappy and at home". Despite a manifest variety in media and sensibility what unites all of this work us a persistent desire to bridge the gulf between longing and belonging.

For further details or visual material, please contact Kirsten Dunne.

Kerlin Gallery
Address: Anne's Lane, South Anne Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Telephone: +353 1 670 9093
Fax: +353 1 6709096

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