Lissadell Bird Song
dal 13/11/2003 al 22/12/2003
Segnalato da
13/11/2003
Lissadell Bird Song
Green on red gallery, Dublin
This is Mark Joyce's fourth solo exhibition at the Green On Red Gallery and heralds Joyce's return to the medium of paint. For this show Joyce will be exhibiting small-scale abstract paintings which explore early modernist ideas of place and the relationship of music to colour.
New Paintings by Mark Joyce
'This is Mark Joyce's fourth solo exhibition at the Green On Red Gallery and heralds Joyce's return to the medium of paint. For this show Joyce will be exhibiting small-scale abstract paintings which explore early modernist ideas of place and the relationship of music to colour.
Lissadell is a reference to the house and lands in Co. Sligo, Ireland, where Mark Joyce used to take art students on field trips. His own response to the area was recorded in copybooks and works on paper. In the latter works, an identification was made with the place through the colours employed and they, in turn, equated with notes or the pitch of the native bird song.
In Joyce's copybooks, the studies are organised using the feint blue grid as support - suggesting pages from a Bauhaus exercise. Here again Mark Joyce attempts to relate sound with location and to put a colour on that sound, an idea partly influenced by Dermot Healy's poem, "The Five Senses," from the collection, The Ballyconnell Colours (1992). Also in Joyce's studio, and an acknowledged influence, were Bridget Riley's book,The Eyes Mind (1999) and the recordings of Glenn Gould.
There is a certain irony at work here as the artist is well aware of the impossibility of depicting a sense of place merely with paint. Tony O'Malley and the St. Ives Group come to mind as artists who explored place through a modernist language of sparse colour, brushwork and colour rhythms. In the works on paper, Joyce deliberately locates the works in an early modernist discourse of mark-making, specifically its elemental nature and those meanings that can be read into the marks. Joyce has remarked that Sophie Tauber-Arp, Paul Klee and Ellsworth Kelly were also strong influences.
Mark Joyce studied at NCAD and the Royal College of Art London. Currently he is Course Co-Ordinator of BA in Fine Art at IADT-Dun Laoghaire.
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