Ronan McCrea & Valerie Connor In Conversation

Ronan McCrea & Valerie Connor
In Conversation

Today, Thursday, 12th January 2017, 7:00pm.

Valerie Connor will participate in a public conversation with Ronan McCrea on the occasion of his current exhibition MATERIAL(s) at Green on Red Gallery.

Green On Red Gallery
Park Lane,
Spencer Dock,
Dublin 1.
(Spencer Dock Luas stop 100m).

Valerie Connor is a freelance project curator and educator currently undertaking postgraduate studies in online learning practices. She is one of the programme team teaching photography at DIT and an external examiner at LSAD. Recent writing includes essays for ACA Public and Pallas Projects / Onamatopee.
  
Ronan McCrea’s current exhibition MATERIAL(s) which runs through 21 January 2017, marks a significant development in the artist’s practice.  The installation of three new projected 16mm film-works brings together recurrent concerns in McCrea’s diverse artistic practice. These include investigations into the appropriated and found image, celluloid materiality, reproduction and indexicality, artistic and personal genealogies and the institutions and processes of pedagogy.
 
The starting point for this body of work is a collection of instructional 16mm films on mechanical engineering produced by the BBC in 1972.  Its scope covers educational documentaries on other topics, including a film about the sculptor Henry Moore.  All were salvaged by the artist from a college engineering department in the wake of film's obsolesce as a didactic tool.
 
Through a laborious process of cutting and splicing of this found material, McCrea draws on tropes taken from avant-garde Structural film - also from the 1970s - from the Cut-Up and from the procedures of early Conceptual art, re-constituting the fragments into new formations, with new affinities.  The resultant works, which are material objects as much as images, stage the apparatus of projection, looping and spectatorship in response to the scale and raw interior of the gallery’s architecture.  

Talking In Brackets: Research And Reaction In Painting - Damien Flood And James Merrigan

Damien Flood and James Merrigan

Talking in Brackets: Research and Reaction in Painting

Saturday, November 26 at 1.15pm


Green On Red Gallery
Park Lane
Spencer Dock ( Luas Stop to Rear of Apartments )
Dublin 1

Parting, 2016, Oil on canvas, 180 x 140 cm

On the penultimate day of Damien Flood's current exhibition at Green on Red Gallery, and almost three years on from their legendary discussion 'Painting in Parentheses (In Brackets!)', Damien Flood and James Merrigan return to the gallery to critically discuss Flood's current work and critically explore painting practice in general. 

The hook for the last discussion was: painting can no longer be just painting anymore, it also has to be an Idea, or at the very least, dress itself in an Idea. The hook for this discussion is: what is the difference between a painting born of research and a painting born of instinct? 

In this discussion we want to explore how research affects painting and the painter, from its compulsory adoption in art college to its necessary adaptation in the studio after art college. In the case of Flood's emotionally and physically reactive painting process, is research a lie, a mask, a case of painting fitting into a conceptual context that is "no longer its own"? Is painting's context instinctual rather than intellectual? Or does reactionary painting stem from research? When it comes to being a painter, are intellect and instinct two sides of a tossed coin? 

What complicates things further is, research and reaction also come into play in the verbal reception of painting, whether casually in spoken word or carefully in the written review. How do 'you' talk and think about painting? Do you embrace painting at the base level of the medium or the elevated stage of the message? Is painting just for painters, and for painters to discuss alone? If so, how do painters deal with the inadequate response, and in most cases, the silent reaction?

Like last time around we ask you to come armed with your own opinions and questions, because like you, we are looking for answers to the questions posed, and in some ideal cases, solutions. 

James Merrigan is an artist turned art critic. He has written for many art periodicals, art institutions and artist catalogues, but his role as art critic at billionjournal.com is where he has found the freedom to play with a more visceral, confessional, fun and sometimes polemical art criticism. Merrigan was selected for EVA International Biennale of Visual Art (2014) as a fugitive art critic; he was co-editor of the printed quarterly on Irish art, Fugitive Papers; and was Guest Editor of two issues of Visual Artists’ News Sheet in 2016. Current projects include DEEP-SEATED which takes as its starting point the psychoanalytic promotion of the ‘talking cure’; and All or Nothing, a film that looks at the current landscape of Irish painting told through his eyes as a lapsed painter. Most recently he was invited to curate PERIPHERIES 2017 at Gorey School of Art. He is co-ordinator and lecturer for the MPhil module Psychoanalysis and Art at Trinity College Dublin, and a tutor at Gorey School of Art. A collection of his art criticism was published in 2013 entitled Agents of Subjectivism. 

John Cronin ZXX At RHA Gallery II

John Cronin 

RHA Gallery II

Opening reception :  Tuesday, November 15, 6 - 8pm 
Exhibition :  November 16th - December 21st 2016,


Royal Hibernian Academy
15 Ely Place,
Dublin 2

ZXX, 2016
Oil on aluminium
183 x 386 cm

Green On Red Gallery is proud to announce the forthcoming solo exhibition  by John Cronin at the Royal Hibernian Academy upstairs in Gallery II. This would be the artist first museum survey exhibition of recent and new works, and an opportunity to see afresh and in one location the largest collection of his oil on aluminium paintings to-date.
In the words of the artist: 

" ZXX, my latest body of work is a logical development of Augmented Reality and Standard Deviation as it sees me trying to take control of their corrupted elements and deviations while reflecting my continuing concerns about the processing of information. The name ZXX comes from a system the US Library of Congress uses to denote a book’s written language. In this context ZXX means “No linguistic content” which in itself is a beautiful metaphor for Abstraction. "

A new monograph on the artist published by the Royal Hibernian Academy will  follow this survey exhibition.
For more information on events during the exhibition consult the RHA Gallery website: www.rhagallery.ie
For more information on the artist consult www.greenonredgallery.com

Ramon Kassam | Works: Artist's Talk

Ramon Kassam | Works 

Artist's Talk  


Wednesday, 6 July 2016, 6.30-7.30pm.
All welcome for wine reception and talk.

Green On Red Gallery, Park Lane, Spencer Dock, Dublin 1.

Ramon Kassam, Talk, 2016, Acrylic on linen, 41 x 51 cms.

The Green On Red Gallery is very pleased to announce the forthcoming Artist's Talk by its newest exhibitor, Ramon Kassam, in the Spencer Dock gallery on Wednesday 6 July, 2016, at 6.30pm.   The talk coincides with the artist's first solo show in the gallery calledWorks.  The exhibition, originally scheduled to finish on July 2, will extend for a further week giving you all another chance to view and to learn about this intriguing exhibition of paintings and its author.  

For another opinion see : http://www.billionjournal.com/time/home.html

Works will finish on Saturday, July 9th, 2016.  The next exhibition,Summertime, will open to the public on Thursday, 14 July and run until August 20, 2016.

Kassam's work can also be seen in the curated exhibition 2116currently running at the Glucksman, UCC, Cork and touring to The Broad Museum, Michigan, November 2016 - May 2017.  See :http://www.glucksman.org/2116.html  

He is the recipient this year of the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon 16 x 16 Next Generation 2016 Award and the Askeaton Residency Award.

Mark Joyce: Bee Loud Glade Launch

Mark Joyce
Bee Loud Glade Launch

At Royal Hibernian Academy


29 June 5:30 pm
Friends Room
http://www.rhagallery.ie/lectures/revealing-artists-10/

Bending Light, 2015, ink on Hahnemuhle paper, 30 x 25 cm

Irish artist Mark Joyce will launch Bee Loud Glade, MM Art Books, Brussels 2016.

The publication contains recent works concerning the phenomenological experience of light and colour. Texts by James Merrigan, Sara Baume, Liam Ó Muirthile, Ana Bonaca, Barbara Ehrenreich, Michel Pastoureau, and related historical pieces by Du Fu, Marcel Minnaert, Robert Grosseteste and John Tyndall, including an interview with Michael Dempsey.
 
Copies of the book will be available on the night for €10.
 
Artists talk “The trouble with light” examines the uneasy alliance of Physics and Chemistry in the artists studio.
 
Mark Joyce studied in NCAD, Dublin and the Royal College of Art, London. His work concerns  physical light and colour, and a curiosity about how we apprehend the physical world and the anomalies and phenomenological strangeness of our optical experiences.   
                                    
He has received numerous awards for his work, including the Guinness Peat Aviation award (1990) British Council Award (1993) the Thomas Damman Award (2009) and bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland and Culture Ireland. In 1998 he represented Ireland at theFestival Interceltique in Lorient, France and has had solo exhibitions in Ireland, UK and the USA. He has curated exhibitions in the Petit Port, Leiden, and Sydney Non Objective. His work can be found in the Irish Museum of Modern Art and Arts Council of Ireland collections.

He has been Artist in Residence at the Bemis and Albers Foundations, USA, the Icelandic Centre for the Arts,  Nanyang Academy, Singapore, RHA Studios, Heinrich Boll Cottage, Achill Co. Mayo, and Facebook HQ, Dublin.

He was a founder of The Drawing Project, IADT-Dunlaoghaire, and is currently inaugural Professor of Humanities (Art) at Yale NUS College in Singapore.

Niamh McCann at Limerick City Gallery of Art

Just Left of Copernicus

(A Prologue) 

Niamh McCann 

Limerick City Gallery of Art 
Carnegie Building 
Perry Square 
www.gallery.limerick.ie

Just Left of Copernicus (A Prologue)
Niamh McCann  
January 22nd-March 24th 2016

Green on Red Gallery is proud to support gallery artist Niamh McCann on her solo exhibition opening tonight at LCGA.  

Courtesy of Limerick City Gallery of Art :

Niamh McCann’s practice looks to the visual cultural landscape to invite a reconsideration of our relationship to the world around us, questioning how this world constitutes us as subjects, and how we, in turn, give this world form.  As an artist, her exploration of these themes takes the form of concise multi-media work, presented within larger installations and site-responsive pieces. 

McCann has been collaborating uniquely and extensively with Limerick architects Jack Byrne and Séamus Baireadinon the development of a new large scale structure/object.  This aspiring structure/object entitled Copernicus for Now is made of industrially produced cardboard tubes and plywood.  Copernicus for Now

Emerged from a previous piece by the artist entitled Occupy that referenced a section of background landscape in the infamous photograph of Armstrong on the moon, and created that horizon line as a series of interlocking pentagons.  Here McCann references the aspirational moment that allowed this event to take place, its cultural (near fictional) potency as image, and the ideas contained within B Fuller’s ‘Spaceship Earth’ (hence the use to pentagon as reference to the geodesic).  Copernicus for Now is both object and event, a crater-like landscape for visitors to occupy and events to take place.

The interchange and flow of fact and fiction, and the overlapping layers of history and fable within the work of German architect Hans Poelzig is of particular interest to McCann.  Poelzig is perhaps best known for his design and build of the Poelzig Building (IG Farben building), Frankfurt Germany, a site of dramatic historic 20th century importance.  Poelzig was also a painter and scenographer. Edgar Ulmer, film director cited Poelzig as a mentor and claimed that they worked together on The Golem: How He Came Into the World(1920). Ulmer subsequently honoured Hans Poelzig as nom de guerre of main villain Hjalmar Poelzig in Ulmer’s 1934 film ‘The Black Cat’.

The changing subtitles of Just left of Copernicus in each gallery, reflect a changing site specific manifestation within each reiteration that will also comprise of archive material, wall drawings, process based work and smaller concise sculptural pieces.

For Artist information:www.niamhmcann.com

Mary FitzGerald in Conversation with Sarah Glennie

Mary FitzGerald in Conversation with Sarah Glennie

Date: December 10, 2015 

Time: 13:15

Green On Red Gallery, Park Lane, Spencer Dock, Dublin 1.

Sarah Glennie, Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, will engage in

conversation with Mary FitzGerald on the occasion of her exhibition ‘STILL” in 

the Green On Red Gallery.

Mary FitzGerald’s solo exhibition, which runs until 12th December 2015 at the 

new gallery space in Spencer Dock, Dublin, is the artist’s most ambitious to 

date. The use of live video projection, reflective materials, oil on canvas, photo 

collage and half-hidden installation details constantly question and shift the 

viewer’s perception of time and space. The exhibition represents at once a 

very personal journey, peppered with fine and refined references to East and 

West, and a philosophical coming to terms with the here and now. Few have 

brought these opposites together with such cool sensibility. 

Mary FitzGerald has exhibited widely in Ireland and internationally. Her work  

is represented in all national collections and in many private and corporate 

collections around the world. In 1990 she was elected a member of Aosdána.

Sarah Glennie, formerly the Director of the Irish Film Institute and the Artistic 

Director of the Model Arts Centre, has written numerous texts on the work of 

Irish and international artists and has been a force for innovative curatorship 

and fresh critical thinking in contemporary Ireland.

Paul Rosser ( DIT ) will make a short performance work in the gallery at 2pm
using drawings and musical score by John Cage as instruction.

All welcome.

STILL
Mary FitzGerald
12 November - 12 December 2015

Gallery Talk With Nigel Rolfe

Green On Red Gallery 
inConverstion Series

Gallery Talk with artist Nigel Rolfe

Thursday 15 October at 7 pm

Green On Red Gallery, Park Lane, Spencer Dock, Dublin 1.

Green On Red Gallery inConversation series
 
Gallery Talk with artist Nigel Rolfe 
Thursday 15 October, 2015, at 7pm.
All Welcome.
 
As part of his current Green On Red Gallery solo exhibition The Burning Frame, Nigel Rolfe will be present for a talk in the gallery on Thursday 15 October at 7pm about the current exhibition and the artist's live works.  
 
Red is the newest live work by the artist and was first performed on September 11, 2015, in Green On Red Gallery.  The many materials, vessels, utensils, pigments, etc. employed by the artist during the 55 minute run of this live event remain in place as a trace of the original and ephemeral performance.  The concrete floor of the gallery, like a fresh canvas, points to the core concerns of Rolfe's practice.  It is an intriguing testament to an art-form practiced and perfected by the artist over a 40 year period.  Evidence of the slow dance of pouring, dragging, pushing and drawing of Red are still discernible, but tauntingly remote.
 
The artist first exhibited in the gallery in 1994 and has been the subject of 7 solo exhibitions since in Green On Red Gallery. Titled The Burning Frame Rolfe’s current exhibition consists of new and double-dated photographic works and, for the first time, pure pigment drawings by the artist.  
 
On the occasion of Burning Frame and Red, the artist has produced two small, editioned prints for €100 + VAT each.  They will be for sale during the show and on the night of the gallery talk.
 
The exhibition will be closed by a second live performance in the gallery.  Further details to be announced on the authorship and nature of the closing performance work.  Watch this space.
 
The Burning Frame runs until 24 October.