My friend Patt Wagner sent me this image of how she displays the house-shaped painting she purchased recently. I am always pleasantly surprised by how people choose to present my work, and these house-shaped paintings offer a number of options. My thanks to Patt for sharing her brilliant arranging skills.
In awesome situ. Photo by Patt Wagner.
My first solo show in 6 years opens Friday, September 8th at The Courthouse in Kinvara. Paintings for Here and Now features wall-mounted paintings and an assortment of house-shaped paintings, all of recent vintage.
The opening reception is Friday the 8th from 7 to 9PM, with opening remarks by archaeologist and multidisciplinary artist Fiona Rooney. You are cordially invited.
The first few months of this year have brought many changes. Moving to a new place with a new studio in a new town, and all disruptions that those kinds of events bring on.
Work had ground to a halt until very recently, with projects frozen mid-stream until now.
So, here we go with the first of the latest (that actually started last year):
ALMOST EVERYONE
(2023)
oil on cardboard on wood
108cm x 79cm
Private collection
If you're not familiar with the work of my pal David Greenberger, do yourself a favour and Google him. Artist, writer, musician, designer, performer and probably a dozen more things, he's best known for (but definitely not limited to) creating The Duplex Planet and the many forms it has taken.
One of those forms is a series of albums where David performs the words of elderly folks responding to his thoughtful questions about, well, almost anything. He works with a diverse roster of bands to create a complete audio experience that is unique in all the world.
Every now and then David will ask me to participate in his projects and it is always an honour and a joy, as we have been friends (and I have been a fan) for over 40 years.
Just out now is David Greenberger and The Huckleberries 2-CD album "Universal Preservation", which has cover and disc art of my paintings. David very kindly sent me a few copies and so I will include a free copy with the next three purchases of any painting.
That's right! Buy any painting and get a free 2-CD album by David Greenberger and The Huckleberries.
I have some new work in the form of house-shaped paintings, and one of them (pictured) will be making its debut on Friday, July 29th at The Courthouse for KAVA’s annual Members Exhibition. The show runs through August 14th. As always, masks are encouraged.
It will be nice to get these things out in the open and see what happens.
Pleased to have a work accepted into the Artform Artfair in Waterford, Ireland. This show will run December 2nd through the 23rd at #44 The Quay in Waterford. The show will be on three floors of this space (lift equipped!). Take a look at the exhibition in their online gallery.
UPDATE: The show has been extended through January.
PRIVATE COLLECTION 2 (2018)
oil on cardboard on wood. 93cm x 65cm
A new painting and a video to introduce it.
I finally decided to take the plunge and dive right into 2016 by creating a facebook page just for my artwork. Not only that, but the Instagram page feeds directly to the facebook page and both of those are connected to this blog, so either something wonderful is going to happen or there will be an endless loop of re-posts on everything everywhere.
If you happen to swing that way, please take a look at Darryl Vance Artwork
The “Adjusting” International Mail Art exhibition had a terrific, albeit short run at The Courthouse in Kinvara. Over 200 works by more than 140 artists from 30 countries made for a diverse show in every sense of the word. Paintings, drawings, prints, collages and mixed media works were aplenty, but the real surprises came in the forms of sculpture in stone, metal, fiber, and wood. Audio works that were submitted allowed us to create a playlist that ran throughout the show. And one entry included a photograph and a QR code that when scanned took you to a virtual reality site that showed the photograph as part of a larger exhibition.
That was the kind of show it was. Exciting, immersive, tactile and apparently unlike anything ever seen around here.
And it isn’t over yet. We have had interest from schools in exhibiting the show, as offers from the community to build the container for the archive.
So my thanks to everyone who participated, supported, and viewed this show. And to all who joined and continue to participate in the facebook group. And if you missed it, I invite you to take a look at the exhibition catalogue.
I’ll be showing some new paintings (as well as a few that are new to Galway) in a solo exhibition as part of the 2020 Galway Fringe Festival, opening Friday, September 4 and running for ten days. The show takes place at Galway City Gallery, 15 New Dock Street in Galway.
Here’s a link to a brief interview with Keith Finnegan on GalwayBay FM. I’m on at 11 and a half minutes from the end of the programme. And here’s a notice in the Galway Advertiser.
You can’t miss it.
The Extra Room
Earlier this year I moved into a new studio located in Kilcolgan. This space is a bit bigger than the tiny one I had been using in Oranmore, and a bit more comfortable with room to spread out in. I’m finishing up some larger works that had to be halted last year and I’ve started another dozen in the “Weir In The Bardo” series I showed in August.
Visitors to The Extra Room are welcome by appointment.
Showing at Space Gallery in August
I’ll be showing some old and new work in an online show at Space Gallery in Corrandula, County Galway in August. Details to follow as they become available.
Not Over Yet
I am taking part in the Not Over Yet project. Not Over Yet is a group of artists exploring the role of creativity in response to environmental emergency. Based in the village of Kinvara on Irelands west coast, the group is producing a year-long project of events, exhibitions, performance and media focused on engagement with communities and individuals.
The provenance of the group can be traced to The Witches Knickers Project, an exhibition which focused on the problems of single-use plastic as well as plastic pollution in our oceans. One of the results of this project was the founding of Plastic Free Kinvara, a community action and advocacy group which has become a leader in the plastic-free campaign in Ireland.
The following year, many of these same artists took part in The Dark Edge of Europe project, which was inspired by the tragic legacy of the nearby Cliffs of Moher as a site of suicide, and of the issues of depression and mental health.
Not Over Yet is another project of art-based action and ideas that hopes to provoke, inspire and illuminate.
Adjusting: an International Postal Art Exhibition
September 25 - October 4, 2020
One part of Not Over Yet is an international mail art exhibition, Adjusting. Artists, writers, and everyone else is invited to enter a work, as there is no jury, no entry fee, no prizes and no returns. All entries will be shown at The Courthouse, Kinvara, and when the exhibition concludes will be archived and made available at no charge to educational, cultural, and community organizations as a historical artifact and source for continued inspiration and creativity.
Details and more information can be found on the shows facebook group page or on Instagram #adjustingmailartexhibition .
Deadline for entries is September 20, 2020.
