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Fenton Art Gallery: Ciarán Lennon
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23rd March - 14th April
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Ciarán Lennon
23rd March - 14th April
An important figure in the Irish art scene for over thirty years, Ciarán Lennon will have an exhibition of new work at the Fenton Gallery this March.
Lennon was born in Dublin in 1947 and studied at NCAD from 1963 to 67. He has been awarded the Pollock Krasner Foundation award twice (1991, 97) and is a member of Aosdana. In 1993 he was chosen to represent Ireland at the Sao Paulo Biennale in Brazil.
Deeply involved with abstraction, Lennon is perceived mainly as a painter, although actually the work can veer from two to three dimensional, even the paintings play with that interchange. Lennon is a masterful colourist, the pulled down layers of paint are suggestive of both memory and of the process of painting itself.
Since 1972 he has had numerous one person exhibitions in museums and art galleries in Ireland and abroad including: The National Gallery of Ireland; the Irish Museum of Modern Art; the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin; the Ulster Museum, Belfast and the Orchard Gallery, Derry. He has also had solo exhibitons at the David Hendricks Gallery, Oliver Dowling Gallery, the Kerlin and the Green on Red in Dublin; Fenderesky Gallery in Belfast; Annely Juda Fine Art, London; Gallerie Weinberger, Copenhagen and Galerie Lahumier in Paris. In 2003 he held a one person exhibition at the Arken Museum of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen.
Lennon’s work has also been included in exhibitions representing contemporary Irish art at home and internationally including; Sense of Ireland, 1980, London; L’Imaginnaire Irlandais, Paris; the Pursuit of Painting, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and Irish drawing, Drawing Centre, New York.
His work is in most major collections including that of Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, who recently selected Lennon's work from their permanent collection for installation in their re-designed rooms alongside works by Philip Guston, Ellsworth Kelly and Sean Scully.
Other collections include: the National Gallery of Ireland; the Ulster Museum; the Irish Museum of Modern Art; the Arts Council of Ireland; Bank of Ireland; Contemporary Irish Art Society; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; Trinity College, Dublin; the Office of Public Works collection; Kamarsky collection, New York; the Fogg Museum of Fine Art, Harvard, Boston, USA; Arken Museum of Modern art, Copenhagen.
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18. Lens
acrylic paint on acrylic sheet, aluminium and brass wire mesh,
32 x 27cm
SOLD
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