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John Cronin "WARME NIGHTS, FAT GROUNDE, SWEETE DEWES, AND MISTY MORNINGS" Green On Red Gallery.

WARME NIGHTS, FAT GROUNDE, SWEETE DEWES, AND MISTY MORNING John Cronin       Green On Red Gallery, Dublin. 28 Oct - 09 Dec 2017 John Cronin Warme Nights, Sweete Dewes, Fat Grounde, And Misty Mornings  2017   Oil on Canvas 41 x 61cms The Green On Red Gallery is delighted to announce John Cronin's exhibition of new paintings Warme Nights, Fat Grounde, Sweete Dewes, And Misty Mornings.  This is the artist's first solo exhibition since his very successful solo shows in VOLTA New York in March 2017 and his first solo survey exhibition, ZXX, in the Royal Hibernian Academy Gallery, Dublin 2, in 2016.  In an exciting departure for the artist Warme Nights, Fat Grounde,... sees the artist paint in oil on the softer surface of canvas and, in so doing, avails of the fabric's warp and weft with more sonorous results.  Momentary glimpses of the textured panel beneath abruptly concede to fronts of Cronin's best paint...
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HELLO AGAIN! I have been locked out of this blog page for a few years - is it ironic, as so much of my work is about AI and technology? Anyway I got it back so here's a heads up as to where to find me and what's going on. My website is   https://www.johncroninstudio.com/   and my Instagram is  https://www.instagram.com/johncroninstudio/     I have a new body of work,  ARTIFICIAL BEE COLONY,  which will be exhibited at the Green on Red Gallery in March 2024. More to come later..... The new body of work is  ARTIFICIAL BEE COLONY here is a bit about it. The ABC paintings are a witness to their coming into being – a process at once slick and crude, with elements of the works breaking down both compositionally and in their very materiality – once-luscious oil paint is cracked, dried and exhausted, arid patches vie with free-flowing organic rivers of paint, watched over by morphing, pathologising and destructive elements. The colours, while less kaleid...
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John Yau Review - Standard Deviation

GALLERIES  •  WEEKEND Too Big for His Pond: The Irish Abstract Painter John Cronin by  John Yau  on  July 7, 2013 2 John Cronin, “Standard Deviation” (2012), oil on aluminium, 60 x 120 x 3 cm (all images courtesy the artist and Red on Green Gallery, Dublin) 1. DUBLIN — John Cronin, an abstract painter in his late 40s, who has been exhibiting his work regularly in Ireland since the late 1980s, was — for this viewer — a wonderful revelation. Little known in America, it was clear from the moment that I walked into the high-ceilinged gallery space that Cronin was up to something. The most obvious is a preoccupation with the nature of paint’s materiality, and beyond that, with the status of painting at this late point in history. Instead of choosing the path of solutions and a signature style, he has elected the territory of investigation and discovery. Rejecting the commonplace answers of parody and citation, he focuses on the how and...
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