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11/7/2012

Vexed Endings

Green on red gallery, Dublin

John Graham / A Kassen / Caroline McCarthy / Dennis McNulty / Philomene Pirecki / Anne Tallentire

Green On Red Gallery is delighted to announce the forthcoming exhibition of new works by John Graham, A Kassen, Caroline McCarthy, Dennis McNulty, Philomene Pirecki and Anne Tallentire called Vexed Endings. This exhibition bridges a diverse number of practices through a perceived common ground in the conception and fabrication/realisation of their work. Numerous works in Vexed Endings tend to a material condition or a conceptual stance that is unstable, open-ended and incomplete. What could be described as anxious, vexed incompletion causes not just a re-examination of processes and method but a radical reassessment of form and conclusions. Artworks mine the in-between state of not knowing, of prolonged and repeated observation, of a process that is not concluded and very much alive.

Works appear to stop mid-stream, for example, or continue to arrive or alter after the official opening. There is certainly no vernissage so the room for the viewer is ample and central.

Caroline McCarthy employs charming accident in her meticulous matchstick renderings. Philomene Pirecki works across painting, photography and the minutiae of hanging/presenting her open-ended objects to create a delectable uncertainty. Anne Tallentire is represented by a number of works that document transient, momentary events on the verge of a choreographed order or system. A Kassen's Encirclement consists of a theatrical twist or physical cut in the environment of the object or the location in question. In a passing reference to Gordon Matta Clarke's cut works, they are as likely to steal and replace or improve an urban artifact as they are to start from pristine scratch in the studio. Dennis McNulty creates a concrete work that is as ephemeral as they come, drawing from a 1960's building industry magazine alongside two new sculptural works that shift and move as you attempt to view. John Graham's new works, For Now - Proof 1 and For Now - Proof 2 point to at least one foot in the present, but then again… As the artist states: " each ‘proof’ is a unique iteration, proving only that there are other possibilities ".

Thanks to all the artists and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

This exhibition will be followed by Niamh McCann's second solo exhibition in the gallery opening on 30 August entitled Insertion, which will then be followed by a solo exhibition of new work by John Graham, opening 11 Oct. Also in the Autumn Mark Joyce, Damien Flood and Paul Doran will participate in the curated exhibition Making Familiar in Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, opening 10 August.

Bea McMahon will have her next solo exhibition in the Temple Bar Gallery and Studios opening 12 October. Alice Maher will have a retrospective exhibition of her work in the Irish Museum of Modern Art at Earlsfort Terrace opening on 5 October; she will also have a solo exhibition in the Green On Red Gallery opening 10 January 2013.

For further information please contact Jerome, Mary or Jonathan at T: +353 16713414 or E: info@greenonredgallery.com
www.greenonredgallery.com

Image: Philomene Pirecki: Grey Painting: Text Version 46 (2012) Oil paint on canvas, 50.8 x 40.5cm

Opening Reception: Thurs 12 July 6 - 8pm

Green on red gallery
26 Lombard Street - Dublin
opening hours are: Tues – Fri: 10 – 6pm / Sat: 1 – 4pm

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