I have collaborated with the Damn Fine Print screen printing studio in Stoney Batter on three limited edition screen prints.
Crisscross (top) and Crossover (middle) are printed using two colours (white and grey) and repeat the same set of hand drawn elements in different configurations. The third print Arches uses 3 tones and a more precise digitally drawn geometry giving a crisper, bolder line.
Each measures 500 x 500mm on Somerset velvet paper and in an edition of 30 priced at €150 each.
I recently read Viv Albertine’s memoir Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.
It is a frank account of the challenges of a creative life including her attempt to return to music after the breakup of the Slits in the early 80s; her subsequent career in film and tv; and a period of time spent focussing on starting a family and raising a child.
Sopheap Pitch is a sculptor from Indonesia who works mainly with bamboo, rattan, and other locally sourced materials.
Gustavo Pérez is a Mexican ceramicist who creates thrown forms on a potter’s wheel which he then manipulates using various techniques.
The images below are from his 2017 exhibition Autorretrato (Self Portrait), at the Museo de Antropología de Xalapa, (Xalapa Museum of Anthropology) Veracruz, Mexico (via cfile.og). The exhibition was an installation of approximately 5000 pieces.
A mock up of proposed projection installation.
The project is based around pairs of words with opposite meanings such as "life" and "death". A thesaurus was used to build a chain of words where each word is a synonym for the previous word. A slight shift of meaning occurs each time until eventually the original meaning is completely reversed i.e. "life" becomes "death". The process is continued until the original word is reached again and a loop is formed.
The original project was titled "Thesaurus Generated Word Loops" and was originally an artist's book. A selection of the loops were featured as a project in Circa Magazine in 2006. I have revisited this project recently with a view to redevelop it as an projection piece.
This has involved nesting the original loops inside each other to form a single animated graphic. The individual loops rotate so that each word moves at the same speed. However, as the circles have different diameters this necessitates a different RPM for each of the loops. The result of this is that the relative positions of the words shift as the loops rotate. The artwork is to be projected onto the floor of gallery space with a minimum diameter of 5meters. This will enable the viewer to stand in the empty space at the centre of the work.
Susan Hiller discusses her J-street project where she documented streets in Germany named Judenstrasse (Jew Street).
The artist’s death was announced this week.
Erik and Martin Demaine are a father and son who collaborate on mathematically derived curved and folded paper sculptures. Their work pictured above reminds me of the image I recently posted of a sculpture produced by a student of Josef Albers during a class in the 50s.
Martin is a mathematician and artist and residence at MIT where his son Erik is a professor of Computer Science and wrote his thesis on “computational origami”. More info on there work can be found on Erik’s website.
Push and Pull, acrylic on canvas panels
Push and Pull was a solo exhibition of my work which took place at the Ashford Gallery at the RHA in January and February 2018.
The exhibition was reviewed by the Irish Times, Circa Magazine's website and the Visual Artists News Sheet.
Paper folding exercise from HfG Ulm Foundation Course instructed by Josef Albers (c.1953-55). Student unknown
Work held by HfG-Archiv / Museum Ulm, Germany.
Brick, William Hall, with introductory essay by Dan Cruickshank, ISBN: 9780714868813
Brick is book of photographs of buildings made from bricks. It is one of a series of architecture books produced by Phaidon that focus on a specific material (Wood and Concrete are others in the series). The book is much more interesting than if sounds. It features amazing buildings of from Cathedrals to Industrial chimneys from around the world including some that are hundreds of years old.
The video below gives a glimpse inside the book.
I have recently moved my website from Wordpress to Squarespace and there may still be a few teething problems in particular on this blog as I have transferred years worth of posts from the old site.
I hope to start posting again more regularly.
Mixed media paintings with nails by Günther Uecker who began working with nails in the 50s.
HeikeA fantastic bronze sculpture cast from cardboard by Heike Schaefer, an artist whose work I discovered through instagram. The method used here resembles some of my early cardboard sculptures._Schaefer_Morgenstern
Paper sculptures by Jae Ko
Paper sculptures by Jae Ko
Donald Judd once referred to Enrico Castellani as "the father of minimalism". Castellani died on the 19th December 2018.
Enrico Castellani, Spartito, 1969/2004, Sheets of paper and wood
Dorothy Cross, Crab (Cancer Pagorus), 2015 Patinated bronze, 5 x 15 x 10 cm, Edition of 4
Dorothy Cross, Crab (Cancer Pagorus), 2015 Patinated bronze, 5 x 15 x 10 cm, Edition of 4
The Black and White Project at Transmitter, New York
My painting About-Face (bottom left in the image above) is featured in the group exhibition The Black and White Project which is curated by Yifat Gat for Look & Listen at Transmitter in Brooklyn, NYC.
The exhibition runs from 12th August – 11th September 2016.
Jack Whitten, Bar Code II: Lateral Shift (2008), Acrylic on canvas
Jack Whitten, Alexandrian Quartet (2001), Acrylic on canvas
Jack Whitten has been painting for over 50s from his early work influenced by De Kooning in the 60s to recent work influenced by contemporary technology such as e-stamps and smartphones. His current work involves pieces cast acrylic paint which are collaged onto canvas using a mosaic-like method.
