John Cronin Artist - Professional Abstract Painter

CRITIC'S GUIDE - 24 NOV 2016 GEMMA TIPTON Frieze - Critic's Guide: Dublin, GEMMA TIPTON - 24 NOV 2016 John Cronin, ZXX 8 , 2015, 1.2 x 1.8 m, oil on aluminium. Courtesy: the artist and RHA Galleries, Dublin John Cronin Royal Hibernian Academy 16 November – 21 December If Yuri Pattison looks at how technology both abets and overwhelms, John Cronin draws ideas of artificial intelligence and augmented reality into his lush abstract oil on aluminium paintings. Endeavouring to explore, and depict, how evolving technologies shape and alter perception, the results are a feast. At first, the 14 works simply shimmer and attract. There are rainbows worth of rich and vibrant colours and, with the largest pieces more than five metres long, there’s a lot to grab the attention. Spend time with them, and patterns emerge. The ZXX of the works’ titles (all except for two earlier pieces Augmented...

CODEBREAKER There is a preview of ZXX by Luke Naessens in current (Winter) edition of the Irish Arts Review.

ZXX - 201 6 - 6'x12' 183x366cm oil on aluminium ZXX - 2015 - 4'x6' 122x182cm  oil on aluminium   ZXX - 2016 -  4'x18' 122x549cm   oil on aluminium  ZXX - 2015 - 4'x6' 122x182cm  oil on aluminium  ZXX - 2016 - 4'x6' 122x182cm  oil on aluminium Detail Detail ZXX - 201 6 - 6'x12' 183x366cm oil on aluminium  ZXX - 2014 - 4'x6' 122x182cm  oil on aluminium   ZXX - 2016 -  4'x18' 122x549cm   oil on aluminium ZXX - 2015 - 4'x6' 122x182cm  oil on aluminium   ZXX - 2016 -  4'x18' 122x549cm   oil on aluminium ZXX - 2013 - 4'x6' 122x182cm  oil on aluminium ZXX - 201 6 - 6'x12' 183x366cm oil on aluminium ZXX - 2016 - 4'x6' 122x182cm  oil on aluminium ZXX - 2016 - 4'x6' 122x182cm  oil on aluminium ...

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...