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My statement
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Farrell's vivid color resonates through a hidden language that is visibly read behind every mark, behind every module where pigment is applied. For Farrell,painting simply is, but is rarely simple. The grid is the uniform support that gives immediate closure to the brushwork. He doesnt fuss over rows of numbers or suffer dillusions of becoming monkish. Rather he paints the grid as a means towards dissolving it, thus giving the substratum an equal tension and balance that few will properly understand.
Taken from "The Intinate Palimpsest" by Robert C Morgan; critical text for catalog; Denis Farrell new paintings 2005.
From, "Doi Sitep in Leitrim", by Ciaran bennett, catalog essay for "Faith (paintings2001-2003) Museum show at Limerick City Gallery of Art 2003;curated by Mike Fitzpatrick
"The organic sensibilities of these paintings have translated the minimilist nature of many contemporary explorations of the grid, into a symphonic gesture of human existence."
Taken from an essay by Eric Gelber of The New York Sun and Associate Editor of artcritical.com;
"Inspired by Greek Tesserae, the geometric designs found on Greek tiles he studied at The Metropolitan Museum of Art while he lived in New York...,
Farrell relies on the grid form and repeditive application of pigment to the canvas to get what he is most interested in, the drama and psychological complexity found within large fields of modulated colour and the wierd spaces they suggest.
By removing figuration from the work, abstract expressionist line and brushwork and organic abstraction, Farrell's grid paintings become windows and mirrors.They are redolent of the organic world, but they are wierdly other, symbolic of complex subjective states of mind"
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Professional history
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1981-1985 Limerick school of art and design.BA
1989-1990 New York Studio School(Fulbright Scholarship)
1991-1993 Yale University School of Art MFA
Presently working from studios in Leitrim in Ireland and Aubepierre-sur-Aube near Dijon France.
Lecturing in the Fine art departments of Galway Mayo Institute of Technology and Sligo Institute of Technology,Ireland
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Disciplines
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| Drawing | Mixed media |
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represented by Taylor Galleries Dublin.
work in
Howard Scott gallery New York
Robert Steele Gallery New York
Nicholas Davies gallery New York
Founder of Bingo Hall Art Gallery Brooklyn1998-2002.
Alfa Gallery Boston 1994 New Talent Show
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Collections
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limerick city gallery of art
Butler collection kilkenny ireland
monaghan county museum
irish contemporary art society
guinness peat aviation
k.p.m.g. accountants dublin cork ireland
Presidents office Limerick University
loyds insurance brokers london
mudgerose gutherie alexander& ferdon law firm new york
readers digest corporate collection new york
sony electronics corporation headquarters los angeles
irish ambassador to great britain,london.
office of public works ireland.
Gard
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Latest activities
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Shows:
New paintings, The Dock Arts Centre Carrick on Shannon, Ireland April 2009
Commissions:
commissioned to complete 10 paintings for a private collector in New York City 2007
Projects:
Installation of 15 paintings with the newly commissioned Sol Lewitt wall drawing, US ambassadors residence, Phoenix Park Dublin, July till August 2009
Collaborations:
Collaboration with Sol Lewitt, US ambassador's residence, Phoenix Park Dublin Ireland
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