Open Studio at 7 Henrietta Street, Dublin 1.
3 December. 12-6pm
After 3 years in this studio I'm moving out, so to
acknowledge my time here and the work produced I'd like to invite you to
come see the beautiful space and my work.
At the moment I'm working towards a exhibition in Queen Street Studios
Belfast in January, so there's plenty of work on the go! Please see
below for further details of exhibition...
The building is
AMAZING, so bring along anyone interested in Architecture, History and
Art... The building and street has a long tradition with artists, No.7
is now home to 9 artist studios, I'll confirm other names if they want
to open their doors too...
I hope you can make it,
Thanks
Allyson
Shimmering Synthetic Appearances; I Want To Put You Back In
7
Henrietta Street 3rd December 2011
Queen Street
Studios 19th January-
18th February 2012
Rothko revered the communicative abilities of Art and the shared space
between the Artist and Audience.‘I want to put you back in’ is a quote
that relates to his practice and the impact of the spacial environment
he created.
Keehan’s research into Rothko, Phenomenology and Painting
Environments has brought her to this two part exhibition. The first part
is an introduction to the process of the ‘Blue’ paintings by inviting
people into her studio in an Open Studio, 3 December 2011. This, the
primary environment of the paintings, is unfinished and a little crude.
The audience witness the Blue Lighting, the ‘tent’ set-up under which
the work is produced, as well as seeing the basic painting techniques
used.
The second part of the exhibition is at Queen Street Studios. Here
the ‘Blue Paintings’ are exhibited in a bright, clean gallery space.
Removed from the components of their production, the paintings create
their own blue impact and generate a submersion into the painting
environment.
The two venues of the exhibition are in two separate cities,
enforcing their divided stages. This is a step further from Keehan’s
‘Blue Studio Project’ exhibition in Berlin 2010, where both studio and
gallery were in the same building though staged six months apart.
I Want To Put You Back In, also refers to the placement of
objects in the Still Life and the objectless Still Life. The satin
backdrop is the principle object in the paintings, followed by the Blue
Light. After that tangible objects are placed in and around the picture
plane to further emphasize composition and textures. The sparseness of
objects in this manner, moves the work towards minimalism and the
experimental abilities of realism.
