Radical Acts | Group Exhibition at Tøn Gallery

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RADICAL ACTS
JARED DEERY, JUDI KEESHAN, PAZ MALLEA, RACHEL OSTROW, TIL WILL

It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
Jon Kabat-Zinn

When you think of New York, you think of art. The city has vied for contention of Capital of the art scene for a century, just as countries clamber over each other for geopolitical positioning.
The art scene of New York is tremendous. The myriad of galleries offer spaces where you get fully absorbed in art. It shocks and it awes. The Metropolitan, the Whitney, the Guggenheim. Legendary spots for art gazers. A compendium of art history contained in a few square miles of land. The array is astonishing.
New York has sent out ripples of influence and inspiration for decades. There is a vision and quest among the practitioners of art of New York that sets the cadence for the rest of the art world. The energy is real. You can feel it. Amidst this competitive and vigorous scene there is a generation of painters, raising their heads above the parapet, poking their brushes trough the dense city jungle. Signalling to the world their creations that have gestated in quiet, old industrial corners of Brooklyn. Amidst the exaggerated mayhem of the city, imagine a painter completely absorbed by the canvas, in an epicentre of perfect calm, painting for now.
In this light we present five radical painters currently working in Brooklyn, New York who present their work together in Dublin for the first time.

Image: Rachel Ostrow, She’s Got It, 2022.