Eithne Jordan 10 Feb 10 - 20 Mar 10 Night in a City Painting

Bare of people, and eschewing the well known tours of architectural highlights, Eithne Jordan’s Night in a City series focuses our attention on Vienna. Resonating with a sense of emptiness, these beautifully executed paintings are pregnant with action that is either to come, or else is taking place just out of view. Jordan’s delicate handling of paint prevents the heaviness of blank concrete walls, or the façades of nightime’s sleeping buildings from becoming overbearing and oppressive, instead what is revealed is a more intimate portrait of a city left for a moment to be simply itself. More on this Exhibition | Eithne Jordan homepage

Tom Molloy 24 Mar 10 - 24 Apr 10 Aftermath Pencil on Paper

“For the last decade, Tom Molloy has deployed images as improvised explosive devices, potent little roadside bombs that detonate received notions and familiar pieties about politics, war, history, justice, and current events. Like so much of the discussion concerning those topics during the past ten years, his work has revolved around the United States of America, its actions, and their effects in, and on, the world. And, like so much of the unfolding situation around the globe, especially, perhaps, where America is concerned, Molloy’s work operates according to the logic of symbols. “ Joseph R Wolin, curator of current exhibition at Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, USA Tom Molloy homepage

Patrick Michael Fitzgerald 29 Apr 10 - 29 May 10 Patrick Michael Fitzgerald new works

Patrick Michael Fitzgerald (B. 1965 Ireland). Though often difficult to classify, the paintings of Patrick Michael Fitzgerald employ very direct approaches to picture making. Fragmentary, doubtful and always very close to their moment of conception or extinction they have an undeniable “contemporary” feel, yet there is frequently something more akin to the restless modernist impulses (and extreme contrasts) of say Pierre Bonnard, Liubov Popova or Clyfford Still to mention only a few. And while acknowledging these influences as an intrinsic part of his work his paintings are interwoven with more personal experience, a visual rendering of immediate surroundings with their corresponding emotional charge: a tree in the garden, glimpses of architecture, reflections in an abandoned shop window etc…all becoming invisible and condensed synthetically into ‘abstractions’. Full of contrasts, quiet, fragile, both organic and geometric, these picture-objects assemble the phenomenological debris of the everyday into paintings which manifest an extreme liberty. Patrick Michael Fitzgerald homepage