When the Abstract Expressionists wanted to create a school, they called it The Subjects of the Artist. It was there that artists met in the evenings to discuss abstraction, then a new thing. Though long gone, the name of the school suggests something that is still relevant today. What is it that artists are trying to get at? What is the real subject? For the last two decades Eithne Jordan has been devoting her efforts predominately to painting buildings. Just as we associate Morandi with bottles, Katz with faces, and Poussin with arrangements of people, from her small gouaches on paper to the large oil paintings it is easy to connect her to architecture.
Read MoreWaiting Rooms: Eithne Jordan’s Interior Spaces /
Visitors to Eithne Jordan: Tableau at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane must first pass through the front hall of Charlemont House, the Gallery’s home on Parnell Square.
Read MoreInside & Out – Irish Arts Review, Autumn 2017 /
Relocating to France brought a change in focus for Eithne Jordan, who tells Brian Mcavera, ‘I had begun to feel that I was painting myself into an alley’ ahead of her exhibition at Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane in 2017.
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With a great desire to be a flâneur (urban explorer), Walter Benjamin wrote passionately of the literary type who wandered the streets of nineteenth century Paris, looking and listening intently to the comings and goings of civilisation.
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