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Study for a portrait Painting

Gareth Maguire

United States

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 48 W x 48 H x 2 D in

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‘From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I played, followed me in the sun of springtime and in the glories of summer. They stood at my side in the evening when I closed my eyes, and intimidated me with death, hell, and eternal damnation. And I would often wake up at night and stare widely into the room: Am I in Hell?’ Edvard Munch. This is my Study for a portrait of an Orangeman after Munch’s Scream. In it I have tried to capture the stereotypical Orangeman from my childhood growing up during The Troubles in Northern Ireland. (acrylic, oil bar, spray paint on gallery wrap canvas)

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Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

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Size:48 W x 48 H x 2 D in

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Gareth is an Irish artist living and working in Austin, Texas. He is primarily known for his unique, figurative paintings and prints featuring fragmented portraits and insurgent imagery from his life (past and present.) he recontextualizes works of old masters such as Da Vinci, employing esthetics that echo Jean michel Basquiat, Jean Dubuffet and Picasso. Gareth's art focuses on suggestive dichotomies such as freedom versus occupation, sovereignty versus subservience, war versus peace, love versus hate, Catholicism versus protestantism and religion versus irreligion. Balancing abstraction with figuration, his social commentary is at time simple and humorous and other times insightful and provocative. He mixes stainless steel with canvas, steel bars with wood and applies oil bar, acrylic and spray paint to just about any useable surface. His paintings are punctuated by doodles and phrases from his daughters, along with images and poetry from many of his favorite painters and writers. His life in Northern Ireland, England, France, New York, Los Angeles and Texas has given him a perspective rendered in contradictions - colorful yet blacker than black, unique yet familiar, a unification of the obscure and the obvious.

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