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Gallery Events Jan 2009
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Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:00 |
Mark Joyce           The Newtonians
Dates:                 January 9th – February 14th, 2008
Preview: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Thursday 8th January, 6-8pm
New works by Irish artist Mark Joyce explore critical issues of colour in optics and music. 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.
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The paintings refer to our experience and memory of colour and light in the world, creating a chroma-chord experience. Â We see the paintings simultaneously and sequentially, like a musical chord.
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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.
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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.
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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-Dunlaoghaire and is represented by the Green on Red Gallery in Dublin.
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For more information contact Jerome O Drisceoil or Mary Cremin
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