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SUMMARY:Situated | Darryl Vance at the Kinvara Courthouse
DESCRIPTION:Kinvara Area Visual Artists (KAVA) are pleased to present a new
  exhibition\, Darryl Vance: Situated\, opening Friday\, August 29th\, 2025
  with a public reception from 7 to 9pm at The Courthouse in Kinvara\, Coun
 ty Galway. The exhibition will open with remarks by artist and musician Ca
 th Taylor and music by singer songwriter Mick Brown. The gallery will be o
 pen daily from 11am until 5pm through Sunday\, September 7th.\nIn this new
  work\, artist Darryl Vance continues his exploration of the transformativ
 e qualities of paint. Developing his process over the past eight years\, V
 ance has arrived at works of increasing complexity\, bold colour and uneas
 y coherence. Juxtaposing the classic modernism of Mondrian\, Paul Klee and
  Frank Lloyd Wright with the aesthetics of funk and the handmade\, his geo
 metry is surprisingly warm\, inviting and sensual. His work appears initia
 lly comforting\, yet on closer viewing subtle tensions emerge.\n\n“I’v
 e been using this method of painting – slicing up cardboard moving boxes
  into rectangles and then painting and arranging them – as a way to imag
 ine the notion of dramatic change and to channel it into something unexpec
 ted\,” Vance explains. “`It became a way of using painting without mak
 ing a picture of something\, which is kind of funny considering the new se
 ries I’m doing.”\n\nOver the past few years\, as he became settled in 
 the village of Kinvara\, Vance began to look at his place in it. “So man
 y things came to mind. The land and the things on it – livestock\, boats
 \, buildings in all states of ruin\, walls\, hedges – compelled me to pa
 int a sort of 'thank you’ note to it all.” he says.\n\nLast year he ca
 me upon an idea for a different tool to paint with: rushes. "I’d learned
  to make Brigid’s crosses with them\, and it got me thinking that they w
 ere an apt tool to use in painting about this place.” Vance would later 
 find out they’re quite versatile\, and depending on how many you use\, t
 he strokes can be broad as a broom or needle thin. He continues\, “I use
  them to add paint and also add texture\, making a subtle surface of marks
  and patterns that recall the ancient and the prehistoric.”\n\nCombining
  those wild Irish weeds with the usual brushes and palette knives lets Van
 ce continue the nervous energy of his geometric paintings. His new series 
 depicts more familiar aspects of the world through the artist's idiosyncra
 tic vision. A cow stands in a boat\, a Flake bar in its back. A sunken boa
 t creates a small bowl of calm water. A herd of painted rocks. A broken ne
 cklace.\n\n“The subjects all seem to have a peculiar narrative in common
 : that something has happened to them.”\n\nTogether with his painted car
 dboard sculptures - “house-shaped paintings” as Vance calls them - the
  exhibition's trio of simultaneous series embodies the work of an endlessl
 y inquisitive creativity.\n\nDarryl Vance (American-Irish\, b.1954) is a v
 isual artist living in Kinvara\, County Galway. His work is shown and coll
 ected internationally\, most recently selected for Ballinglen Art Museum
 ’s Biennial. Other juried shows include Linenhall Arts Centre in Castleb
 ar (2023)\, Art Fair in Waterford (2021)\, The Courthouse in Ennistymon (2
 019)\, and The Westport Music + Arts Festival (2018 and 2019). Recent solo
  exhibitions include The Galway Fringe Festival (2020)\, A Space Gallery (
 2020) and KAVA (2017\, 2019 and 2023). He was awarded a BFA from The Atlan
 ta College of Art and has worked in photography\, video\, public media\, p
 erformance\, conceptual art and painting.\n\nCath Taylor is a multidiscipl
 inary artist and musician.\n\nMick Brown is a Galway-based singer\, songwr
 iter\, folk musician and community music facilitator.
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LOCATION:KAVA Kinvara Courthouse\, The Old Courthouse\, Kinvara\, Galway\, 
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