In Blowing A Dream, Brendan Lynch’s first solo exhibition to take place in the United States, painting, sculpture and installation are brought together in a conversation about art viewed online. Surfing the internet, images streaming in blog format, lead Lynch through an expanse of visual information. Inspired by the process of meandering amongst transient iconography, Lynch initiates brief conversations of one-liners in misused material.
The artist’s canvas and easel, frozen in the eternal drab of cement, is Never Titled; a sarcastic remark on materials inescapably associated with art-making. The emptiness and banality of these forms in cement solidifies the stereotype of the artwork, monumentalizing its form by trivializing its function.
The ephemera of fallen paint, dust settled along the perimeter of the exhibition, is colored powder sanded from a painted surface. In his appreciation of the impact that such idle product has in the chance of beauty, Lynch rediscovers his discarded medium.
This pastoral wandering, online and in the studio, is his ambition to create.
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