Скачать или смотреть Dean Kelly - City Studies exhibition at The Kenny Gallery, 2019

Galway artist Dean Kelly's most recent works, City Studies record the built heritage of his native city of Galway and will be hanging at the Kenny Gallery through Ireland’s National Heritage Week 2019, and beyond.

Former Macnas designer and current exhibition organiser with Kennys, who Deirdre Falvey has described as ‘Gamekeeper turned Poacher’, Kelly once more steps from behind the curtain in presenting his own latest work.

Kelly's usual layered symbolic style gives way to unabashed painterly celebration of Galway’s streets, its iconic landmarks and most especially, its people. The focal point of each loose but representational painting is the city’s inhabitants going about their daily lives, working, playing, walking on Quay Street, shopping, swimming at Blackrock or collecting their dole at the GPO.

Kelly’s paintings show a contemporary approach to traditional materials and lean increasingly towards the expressive. Colour, texture, drawing and various forms of mark-making are layered using various media.

His photography is an ongoing project of recording his locality and forms an important resource for his paintings. Indeed, the paintings of City Studies are augmented with a number of Kelly’s photographs - finished works in their own right here, they may make it to canvas in the future.

Dean Kelly’s City Studies will be officially opened by fellow Galway artist, the renowned and critically acclaimed Jennifer Cunningham, at 2.30pm on Saturday 17th August at the Kenny Gallery, Liosbán, Tuam Road, Galway.

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