Nicholas Byrne : Finish your sentence

11 Oct-14 Nov 2015

Overview

Vilma Gold presents a solo show by London-based artist Nicholas Byrne. The show will consist of three cycles of new paintings started whilst Byrne participated on the IMMA residency in Dublin last year. Evolving from automatic drawing processes and the repetition that it incurs, for example, through concepts such as muscle-memory, a series of bisecting pattern-like paintings on gesso panels alternate between the acutely chromatic and the monochrome. A new triptych on copper shifts the emphasis from graphic line to more exploded, high-key, saturated colour. Two large-scale multi-paneled pieces on linen see how a number of looser grounds might be held by the overlaying of a large graphic image in this instance sourced from works by Boris Bucan and Raoul Dufy.