Damien Flood
dal 15/1/2014 al 21/2/2014
Segnalato da
15/1/2014
Damien Flood
Green on red gallery, Dublin
Interior Sun. In this body of work the artist continues to intrigue and surprise with paintings that rely heavily on the quality and the direction and brevity of the painted line, among other things.
Green On Red Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of new work by Irish artist Damien Flood on January 16, 2014.
In this body of work called Interior Sun the artist continues to intrigue and surprise with paintings that rely heavily on the quality and the direction and brevity of the painted line, among other things. The same line varies between having descriptive, diagrammatic or even ideogrammatic powers in a witty and confident turn to an increasingly light touch. Reminiscent of an earlier work called Red Line, paintings like Pipe and String charm the viewer with their whimsical and contradictory logic. The “ narrative “ begun by the see-through depiction of a ( detail of a ) mountain scene in String or, by contrast, a more layered and complicated inner scape as in Sleeper is all the more effective for its inconclusive condition.
The exhibition mixes Flood’s continuing investigation into defunct belief systems and introduces abstracted notions of the everyday, examining language in a wider context. These works challenge how the viewer is placed within the psychological space of the painting. Interchanging notions of placement, i.e grounded, floating, underground, viewing from inner-consciousness to outer-consciousness to outer space. Displacing the viewer and instilling an otherworldly mood within them.
The palette remains predominately earthen and dun with occasional flourescent accents of turquoise or vivid pink. Each mark feels more daring and honest and increasingly independent or other-worldly.
For an expansion of these ideas and more information you may attend a conversation between the artist and James Merrigan in Green On Red Gallery on 12 February in the gallery at 7pm. Flood’s work has recently been exhibited in curated exhibitions in the Arthur Boskamp Foundation, Germany, Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy, Domo Baal Gallery, London.
Opening Reception: Thurs 16 Jan, 6:00 - 8:00pm
Green On Red Gallery
26-28 Lombard Street East, Dublin
Hours: Tuesday - Friday 10.00 - 18.00, Saturday 13.00 - 16.00, Sunday Closed, Monday by appointment
Admission free