New works by Irish artist Mark Joyce explore critical issues of colour. Joyce has used his knowledge of lenses,
spectroscopes and other instruments, creating ink drawings and paintings
that illuminate fundamental aspects of light. Isaac Newton's colour
wheel linked seven colours with the notes of a musical octave. Joyce
revisits Newton's octave with a sound piece. The paintings refer to our
experience and memory of colour and light in the world, creating a
chroma-chord experience. We see the paintings simultaneously and
sequentially, like a musical chord. Joyce explores some of the classic
tropes of early modernism, autonomous form, light as material, and the
vertiginous and optimistic rhetoric of colour put forward in manifestos
by artists and composers in the modernist period. In recent years Joyce
has produced large-scale works in outdoor environments, most recently at
The New Art Centre in Wiltshire, UK, the Albers Foundation in
Connecticut, and at the M50 in Dunlaoghaire Rathdown.
| Exhibition: | Mark Joyce, The Newtonians |
| Dates: | January 9th - February 14th, 2008 |
| Location: | Green on Red Gallery 26-28 Lombard Street East Dublin 2 |
Biography: Mark Joyce was born in Dublin Ireland in 1966. He studied
painting the Royal College of Art, London. He has had Solo Exhibitions
in Ireland, UK and the USA. His work is in many public collections
including the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and the Arts Council of
Ireland. He lectures in visual art at IADT, Dun Laoghaire and is
represented by the Green on Red Gallery in Dublin.
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