Mark Joyce
dal 7/1/2008 al 13/2/2009
Segnalato da
7/1/2008
Mark Joyce
Green on red gallery, Dublin
The Newtonians. In his paintings, the artist explore critical issues of colour in optics and music. He has used his knowledge of lenses, spectroscopes and other instruments, creating ink drawings and paintings that illuminate fundamental aspects of light.
New works by Irish artist Mark Joyce explore critical issues of colour in
optics and music. Joyce has used his knowledge of lenses, spectroscopes and
other instruments, creating ink drawings and paintings that illuminate
fundamental aspects of light. Isaac Newton's colour wheel linked seven
colours with the notes of a musical octave. Joyce revisits Newton¹s octave
with a sound piece.
The paintings refer to our experience and memory of colour and light in the
world, creating a chroma-chord experience. We see the paintings
simultaneously and sequentially, like a musical chord.
Joyce explores some of the classic tropes of early modernism, autonomous
form, light as material, and the vertiginous and optimistic rhetoric of
colour put forward in manifestos by artists and composers in the modernist
period.
In recent years Joyce has produced large-scale works in outdoor
environments, most recently at The New Art Centre in Wiltshire, UK, the
Albers Foundation in Connecticut, and at the M50 in Dunlaoghaire Rathdown.
Biography
Mark Joyce was born in Dublin Ireland in 1966. He studied painting the Royal
College of Art, London. He has had Solo Exhibitions in Ireland, UK and the
USA. His work is in many public collections including the Irish Museum of
Modern Art, and the Arts Council of Ireland. He lectures in visual art at
IADT-Dunlaoghaire and is represented by the Green on Red Gallery in Dublin.
Preview: Thursday 8th January, 6-8pm
Green on red gallery
26 Lombard Street - Dublin
Free admission