(e)merge art fair, Washington DC
22-25 September 2011
Vane presents work by Jock Mooney, Michael Mulvihill and Flora Whiteley at (e)merge art fair, Washington DC, USA.
Jock Mooney’s work explores the cultural outpourings of the human mind, whether his own or that of the world at large. His work can be seen as concerned with the liberation of the human spirit through confronting us with our own everyday ridiculousness, an anarchic and never-ending project of emancipation that attempts to break apart oppressive and redundant forms of thought and clear a path for the imagination.
Michael Mulvihill’s landscapes, urban scenes and portraits are weighted with a sense of menace. The heavily worked pencil drawings on paper, involving repeated erasure and overdrawing, leave a series of ‘ghosted’ images below the ‘final’ image. Combined with the dull sheen of graphite his images imply a world that is in the process of dissolving.
Flora Whiteley’s paintings seem to sidestep attempts to apply narrative structures. Different links and associations appear to be made between the individual paintings but these are often superficial and lead the viewer nowhere. For her, the act of painting seems to come first and it is not until some time later that the questions of the why and what to paint emerge.
Capitol Skyline Hotel
0 I St SW
Washington
DC 20024
USA
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