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‘Figure & Ground’Gallery 1
An exhibition of painting, drawing and sculpture by Eamon O’Kane, Huib Fens,
Carol Anne McGowan, Jill McKeown, Kieran Brown, Chris Marshall & Svend Bruun
Preview Saturday 9th April 2pm – 6pm
‘Figure & Ground’ is an exhibition of work by contemporary artists from Ireland, England, The Netherlands, Denmark and America. While the works engage in figuration utilising the face, the human form, an architectural building or an object the artists’ approach varies enormously from the abstract figure in Svenn Bruun’s work and the almost holographic treatment of the face by Carol Anne McGowan to dark, brooding pastel works of architecture by Huib Fens, mysterious, suspenseful paintings by Chris Marshall and vibrant, colourful works by Eamon O’Kane. The range in use of ground and medium spans a vast area too: from thick impasto paint to fine print in Jill McKeown’s ‘Six Degrees of Separation’, dark layers of pastel to pristine porcelain sculpture in ‘Artificial Reef Flipper Debris’ by Kieran Brown.Eamon O'Kane has exhibited widely and is the recipient of many awards and scholarships including the Taylor Art Award, The Tony O'Malley Award and a Fulbright Award. He has shown in exhibitions curated by Dan Cameron, Lynne Cooke, Klaus Ottman, Salah M. Hassan, Jeremy Millar, Mike Fitzpatrick, Sarah Pierce, Jeanne Greenberg-Rohatyn, Angelika Nollert, Yilmaz Dziewior and Apinan Poshyananda.
He has recently been appointed Professor of Visual Arts at Bergen National Academy of the Arts in Norway. Eamon O'Kane's solo show 'Der Glasraum' is selected in Flavorpill’s 10 Must-See Art Shows in USA for Fall 2010. Capital magazine in Germany has chosen Eamon O'Kane as a 'shooting star' of the international artworld. Eamon has been invited to be one of the first Artist Members of the Contemporary Art Society in London
Carol Anne McGowan graduated from N.C.A.D. in 2006. She exhibited in "Fear Not", the Iontas Small works exhibition in Sligo in 2007 and at the Royal Dublin Society "Student Art Awards Exhibition" in 2006. She studied under Wim Jonkman on an Erasmus exchange and exhibited the New Irish Painting at the Context Gallery, Derry and at Academie Minerva, Groningen, The Netherlands in 2005.
Kieran Brown equips himself with an array of materials and ideas: foam, wax and resin are combined with diverse unrelated objects. The work is a combination of the familiar and the bizarre fantasy that is created in the artist’s world.
Jill McKeown studied at the University of Ulster, Belfast receiving an MA Fine & Applied Art in 1997. Recent exhibitions include 7th British International Mimi-Print Exhibition, London, Wrexham Print International 2009, Wales, 111 International Printmaking Exhibition Istanbul, 1st International Print Biennale, China and Lessendra 8th World Art Print annual, Sophia, Bulgaria.
Architecture is a central theme in the work of Huib Fens. He was brought up in an area at the border of a city, surrounded by a number of large industries, and became aware of the influence those massive, hermetic buildings had on his attitude towards architecture,his sense of dimensions and his ideas about urbanspace and city buildings. This has led to his recent sculptures and drawings and his particular interest in industrial heritage. Huib Fens is a Professor at the Fontys Academy of Visual Art Tilburg and a visiting Lecturer for Academie St Joost, Breda NCAD Dublin and Hogeschool der Kunsten, Utrecht.
Danish artist Svend Bruun is based in Copenhagen and produces semi-abstract compositions that focus on the figure but also reference myth and symbolism. They have a naive primitive quality that could be compared to the work of Basquiat and De Kooning. He incorporates geometric forms and experiments with line in the confines of the canvas. There is a definite sense of layers of representation in each work. Bruun has exhibited widely and his work is included in a number of corporate collections including Den Danske Bank, Unibank and BRF Kredit.
Chris Marshall was born in 1980 in Washington State, USA.He studyied at the New York Academy of Fine Arts in 2007 and received his BFA from California Lutheran University in 2003. In 2006 he studied with Odd Nerdrum and received his Masters Degree from the New York Academy of Art in 2009. He currently lives and works in New York City.
The exhibition continues until 3rd June 2011 Tuesday – Saturday 12.00 – 6.00 pm
Eamon O'Kane
'Studio in the woods', oil on canvas 120 x 180 cm
Chris Marshall
'Ribbon', oil on canvas 87 x 87 cm
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Chris Marshall
'Puppet', oil on canvas 87 x 61 cm
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Kieran Brown
'Artificial Reef Flipper Debris porcelain sculpture', 54 x 20 x 6 cm
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Huib Fens
26 x 38cm, 2003
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Huib Fens
26 x 38cm, 2003
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Jill McKeown'Six Degrees of Seperation- Tree Topology', photo intaglio, A/P 38 x 57 cm
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Carol Anne McGowan Cityscape
'Rooftops Groningen', etching and aquatint, A/P 9 x 57 cm
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Carol Anne McGowan'Untitled', oil on canvas 50 x 33
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Eamon O'Kane
'Eames Le Corbusier Mondrian Mix', oil on canvas 30 x 30 cm
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Eamon O'Kane
'Cloth IV', oil on canvas 40 x 40 cm
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Eamon O'Kane
'Cloth V', oil on canvas 40 x 40 cm
Cavanacor Gallery, Ballindrait, Lifford, Co. Donegal, Tel/Fax 074 91 41143 Website:cavanacorgallery.ie Email: art@cavanacorgallery.ie
