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Dublin Contemporary
Dublin Contemporary was a large-scale, international, contemporary art festival held in Dublin between 6 September and 31 October 2011. Originally planned to occur every 5 years, it was only held once, and amidst controversy and criticism. Background Dublin Contemporary was originally planned for 2010 and was "conceived as a documenta-style quintennial", and "a visual art exhibition on a scale never seen in Ireland before". It has been compared to the large Irish survey Rosc exhibitions from the 60's-80's – in fact, Rosc '80 also took place in Earlsfort Terrace. Rachel Thomas was the Chair of long term planning and Senior Curator at IMMA. Thomas approached independent contemporary visual art curator Oliver Dowling in 2005 with the idea of an international-scale exhibition in Dublin. The charitable organization 'St Patrick’s Festival' was tasked with the delivery of the exhibition. More than 5 years in the planning under Thomas's artistic direction, she put tog ...
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Alexandre Arrechea
Alexandre Arrechea (born 1970) is a Cuban visual artist. His work involves concepts of power and its network of hierarchies, surveillance, control, prohibitions, and subjection. For twelve years he was a member of the art collective Los Carpinteros, until he left the group in July 2003 to continue his career as a solo artist. His public art The spectator's participation in the work adds to his contemplation. The work arises out of human actions and reactions in the face of contemporary versions of the worldview already described by Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. The eye of power watches everything and everyone, and everyone watches everyone else and themselves. The interdisciplinary quality of Arrechea's work reveals a profound interest in the exploration of both public and domestic spaces. This quest has led him to produce several monumental projects like “Ciudad Transportable” (2000), “The Garden of Mistrust” (2003-2005) and “Perpetual Free Entrance” (2006). ...
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Conor Harrington
Conor Harrington (born 1980) is an Irish street/graffiti artist based in London, England. Overview Harrington is known for both his street work and also more recently his gallery work. Early life Conor Harrington was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1980. He started his career in his teenage years tagging and doing graffiti in the streets of Ireland. Most of these nights were called hip-hop nights, where he would hang out at clubs in 1990s Ireland. Career Conor Harrington attended Limerick School of Art and Design and graduated in 2002 with his Bachelor of Fine Arts. In 2013, Harrington participated in the Dulwich Outdoor Gallery project, initiated by Ingrid Beazley of Dulwich Picture Gallery. Exhibitions Conor Harrington's exhibitions have included the following. ;Solo exhibitions * "Eat and Delete", Lazarides pop-up, New York (2014) * "Whole Lot of Trouble for a Little Win", The Outsiders, London (2013) * "Dead Meat", Lazarides Rathbone, London (2012) * "Headless Heroes", Laza ...
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Dan Perjovschi
Dan Perjovschi is an artist, writer and cartoonist born on 29 October 1961 in Sibiu, Romania. Perjovschi has over the past decade created drawings in museum spaces, most recently in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in which he created the drawing during business hours for patrons to see. The drawings present a political commentary in response to current events. Another exhibition of Perjovschi's within a Portuguese bank consists of several comic strip style drawings which address more European issues such as Romania's acceptance to the EU and abortion legalization in Portugal. Dan and Lia Perjovschi had their first retrospective exhibition at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in fall 2007. In 2009 Dan Perjovschi created his first permanent realisation in Czech National Library of Technology in Prague. It consists of 200 monumental drawings on the concrete walls of main atrium of the building. In 2010, Dan Perjovschi served as an International Artist in Resi ...
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Niamh O'Malley
Niamh O'Malley is a contemporary Irish artist known for sculptures and moving image installations. Early life and education Born in County Mayo, Ireland, O’Malley studied at University of Ulster, Belfast, earning her PhD in 2003. She lives and works in Dublin. Work O'Malley has created a number of installations in Ireland and the UK over the last decade. Writer Jack Welsh describes her solo show at The Bluecoat, Liverpool: "Encompassing video, painting, sculpture, drawing and printmaking, the exhibition explores O’Malley’s interest in constructing images, primarily using the material and spatial properties of glass." Irish Times critic Aidan Dunne discusses her use of glass at the Royal Hibernian Academy: "O’Malley is very taken with glass as a material in her work. If transparent, it offers a view on to a scene and often it frames the view. It can also fragment the view or obscure it." Career O'Malley's participation in the 2011 Dublin Contemporary, a film titl ...
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Brian O'Doherty
Brian O'Doherty (4 May 1928 – 7 November 2022) was an Irish-American art critic, writer, visual artist, and academic. He lived in New York City for over 50 years, serving as an art critic for ''The New York Times'' and NBC, as well as an editor for ''Art in America''. He used a number of alter egos, including Patrick Ireland. Early life and education O'Doherty was born at Ballaghaderreen in County Roscommon in 1928, and grew up in Dublin.Ciarán Benson (2011)No sad imperialist of the aesthetic self ''The Dublin Review of Books'' 17 (Spring 2011). Archived 3 June 2014. He studied medicine at University College Dublin, and did post-graduate work at Cambridge University and at the Harvard School of Public Health. .n.(1 June 1997)Brian O'Doherty: University Professor of Fine Arts and Media Southampton College of Long Island University Long Island University. Accessed January 2014. In 1957, O'Doherty spent a year working in a cancer hospital before devoting himself full-time to the ...
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Manuel Ocampo
Manuel Ocampo (born 1965) is a Filipino artist. His work fuses sacred Baroque religious iconography with secular political narrative. His works draw upon a wide range of art historical references, contain cartoonish elements, and draw inspiration from punk subculture.Casin, Pam Brooke A"Manuel Ocampo: iconoclasm personified." ''Manila Bulletin Publishing.'' 31 Jan 2010 (retrieved 16 Aug 2010) Background Manuel Ocampo was born in the Philippines. He studied fine arts at the University of the Philippines, then moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1980s, where he studied at the California State University. Ocampo has since moved to back to Manila living with his wife and has four children. Namely, Juliao Ocampo, Yulla Ocampo, Xabine Ocampo, and Xantiago Ocampo . "Manuel Ocampo, God is my Copilot."
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Alice Neel
Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 – October 13, 1984) was an American visual artist, who was known for her portraits depicting friends, family, lovers, poets, artists, and strangers. Her paintings have an expressionistic use of line and color, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity. Her work depicts women through a female gaze, illustrating them as being consciously aware of the objectification by men and the demoralizing effects of the male gaze. Her work contradicts and challenges the traditional and objectified nude depictions of women by her male predecessors. She pursued a career as a figurative painter during a period when abstraction was favored, and she did not begin to gain critical praise for her work until the 1960s. Neel was called "one of the greatest portrait artists of the 20th century" by Barry Walker, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which organized a retrospective of her work in 2010. Life and work Early life Ali ...
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Richard Mosse
Richard Mosse (born 1980) is an Irish conceptual documentary photographer. Early life and education Mosse was born in Kilkenny, Ireland. He lives and works in New York and Berlin. He received a first class BA in English literature from King's College London in 2001, an MRes in cultural studies from the London Consortium in 2003, a postgraduate diploma in fine art from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2005 and a photography MFA from Yale School of Art in 2008. Work Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in ''The Guardian'', said "His images from there often seem to skirt the real and the fictional, simply though ictheir heightened and unreal colours. He has made the familiar seem strange and the real seem heightened to the point of absurdity. This is war reportage – but not as we know it." Willy Staley, writing in the ''New York Times Magazine'', said "Mosse highlights the eastern Congo's natural bounty while acknowledging both the medium's origins and, he points out, the West' ...
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Brian Maguire
Brian (sometimes spelled Bryan in English) is a male given name of Irish and Breton origin, as well as a surname of Occitan origin. It is common in the English-speaking world. It is possible that the name is derived from an Old Celtic word meaning "high" or "noble". For example, the element ''bre'' means "hill"; which could be transferred to mean "eminence" or "exalted one". The name is quite popular in Ireland, on account of Brian Boru, a 10th-century High King of Ireland. The name was also quite popular in East Anglia during the Middle Ages. This is because the name was introduced to England by Bretons following the Norman Conquest. Bretons also settled in Ireland along with the Normans in the 12th century, and 'their' name was mingled with the 'Irish' version. Also, in the north-west of England, the 'Irish' name was introduced by Scandinavian settlers from Ireland. Within the Gaelic speaking areas of Scotland, the name was at first only used by professional families of Irish or ...
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Jim Lambie
James Lambie (born 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a contemporary visual artist, and was shortlisted for the 2005 Turner Prize with an installation called ''Mental Oyster''. Jim Lambie graduated from the Glasgow School of Art (1990-1994) with an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree. He lives and works in Glasgow, and also operates as a musician and DJ.Two Glasgow boys stake Scottish claim to Turner Prize, Anna Millar, ''Scotland on Sunday'', 5 June 2005. ''NewsBank''. With Norman Blake, Lambie formed the Glaswegian band The Boy Hairdressers, which went on to become Teenage Fanclub. Lambie was responsible for the filming of the now legendary 1980's 'Splash One' club in Glasgow. This rare footage has emerged on various television programmes and in films about the independent music scene in Scotland during the eighties. Most recentl'Teenage Superstars'directed by the filmmakeGrant McPhee which surveyed bands from the alternative pop music scene in Glasgow from the mid 80's to early 90' ...
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Patrick Jolley
Patrick may refer to: *Patrick (given name), list of people and fictional characters with this name *Patrick (surname), list of people with this name People *Saint Patrick (c. 385–c. 461), Christian saint *Gilla Pátraic (died 1084), Patrick or Patricius, Bishop of Dublin *Patrick, 1st Earl of Salisbury (c. 1122–1168), Anglo-Norman nobleman * Patrick (footballer, born 1983), Brazilian right-back *Patrick (footballer, born 1985), Brazilian striker *Patrick (footballer, born 1992), Brazilian midfielder *Patrick (footballer, born 1994), Brazilian right-back *Patrick (footballer, born May 1998), Brazilian forward *Patrick (footballer, born November 1998), Brazilian attacking midfielder *Patrick (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian defender *Patrick (footballer, born 2000), Brazilian defender *John Byrne (Scottish playwright) (born 1940), also a painter under the pseudonym Patrick *Don Harris (wrestler) (born 1960), American professional wrestler who uses the ring name Patrick Film * ...
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