Mark Francis

11 Sep-17 Oct 2009

Overview

This will be Mark Francis’s first exhibition at Kerlin Gallery since his highly acclaimed solo show at the Hugh Lane, Municipal Gallery, Dublin, in January 2008. In the new set of paintings, Francis explores the grid format in a much more obvious fashion. Formerly it has always appeared, through the brushing in vertical and horizontal marks, subtly in the background. The more evident appearance has come through inspiration from sound graphs, musical notation and astronomical diagrams such as spectrographs. It is, as if the artist has turned the paintings inside out, to reveal a more robust structure rather than the paintings previous veiled softness.