John Cronin
Fictional Fictions Solo Show
9 July - 4 September 2026
Green On Red Gallery is proud to announce Fictional Fictions, a solo exhibition of John Cronin’s new oil paintings which continue the grapple with AI, truth, and fiction.
The title Fictional Fictions “ comes from my desire to reflect the constant flux, turbulence and perpetual uncertainty of our world today. These paintings are chaotic and confusing, reflecting our technological age of non-linear warfare and algorithms. Echo chambers of narratives drifting farther from the truth, a truth that has not been forgotten, just outvoted. ”
John Cronin Fictional Fiction 4 (Assigned Values) 2025 Oil on aluminium 61 x 122cm
John Cronin Fictional Fiction – Behavioural Harvest 2026 Oil on canvas 122 x 149cm
“These are my Alt Genre Paintings, mechanical, gestural and organic celebrations and abuses of
paint. Morphing, pathologising, and destructive elements seek out and illuminate what has gone
before.”
John Cronin Fictional Fiction – Twice Removed 2026 Oil on canvas 108 x 107cm
John Cronin Fictional Fiction – Candy Cloud Serf 2026 Oil on canvas 122 x 152.2cm
“Elements break down, both compositionally and in their very materiality—once-luscious oil paint is cracked, dried and exhausted and vies with free-flowing organic rivers and mists of paint, at the same time revealing the scar-tissue which is the underpainting. ”
John Cronin Fictional Fiction – Counter Truth 2026 Oil on canvas 103.5 x 122.5cm
John Cronin Fictional Fiction 1 (Digital Nerve System) 2025 Oil on aluminium 61 x 122cm
John Cronin Fictional Fiction 3 (Integrated Mainstream) 2025 Oil on aluminium 61 x 122cm
John Cronin Fictional Fiction 2 (Ecstatic Truth) 2025 Oil on aluminium 61 x 122cm
John Cronin is one of Ireland's leading and most established painters. He has been exhibiting in Ireland and internationally since the late 198os.
His ZXX (2016) paintings were as much a metaphor for the hidden, untranslatable layers of his often monumental abstract oil on aluminium paintings as they were a comment on our new open-source world. ZXX was the title of his large solo RHA exhibition in 2016. His Standard Deviation (2013) 122 × 549cm triptych was featured in the RHA's In And Of Itself — Abstraction in the Age of Images (2022) survey exhibition of Irish abstraction, curated by Patrick Murphy. While his work's primary concern is abstract painting in the age of artificial intelligence, the titles of his exhibitions often reflect a desire to add a thematic twist to each new body of work. Through a diverse range of exhibitions, including Standard Deviation, Augmented Reality, MHz, ZXX up to Artificial Bee Colony in 2024, we have seen him continually extend the language of his practice.
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Installation view of Fictional Fiction – Behavioural Harvest (2026) and New Original 1 (2026)
Installation view of Fictional Fiction 2 (Ecstatic Truth) (2025) and Fictional Fiction 4 (Assigned Values) (2025)
Installation view of New Originals 3 (2026) and Fictional Fiction – Candy Cloud Serf (2026)
Installation view of New Originals 4 (2026)
Installation view of New Originals 4 (2026)