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September 10, 2001
Avram Gallery to Showcase Works by Patrick IrelandFall Gallery Season Opens with Rope Drawings; Reception Slated for September 20
Contact:
Patricia Conway
(631) 287 8313
Fax: (631) 283 4081Southampton College's Avram Gallery will open the Fall season with Patrick Ireland's Box 2001 on September 17.
Box 2001, continues a series of rope drawing installations Ireland started in 1973. The installations, which use the neutral gallery space, have been described as "delivering space into place." Ireland typically paints the surrounding walls of the room to interact with a network of white or colored ropes. His rope drawings often deal with the idea of domicile, establishing actual or implicit traffic through portals, doors and windows, which may have a contradictory relationship to their containing walls. Box 2001 is a new rope drawing created especially for the Avram Gallery.
On the Southampton College campus Ireland is known as Brian O'Doherty, University Professor of Fine Arts and Media. In 1972, O'Doherty began to sign his artwork Patrick Ireland in response to British reprisals against revolutionaries in Northern Ireland.
Ireland/O'Doherty joined the faculty at Southampton College in 1997 and teaches Screenplay as Literature and Arts on Film. He is an internationally known writer of fiction and non-fiction. Ireland served as an art critic for the New York Times and in 2000 he was on the shortlist for the Booker Prize, one of the world's most famous literary awards, for his novel "The Deposition of Father McGreevy." Born in Ireland, he now lives in New York City and Southampton.
Ireland's rope drawings have been installed in numerous galleries and museums in Europe and the United States. His work is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Fort Worth Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Detroit Institute of Art, and Trinity College in Dublin.
Also on display at Avram will be Aspen 5 & 6, a small white box in which Ireland (working as Brian O'Doherty) assembled a unique collection of sounds, moving images, essays and data in 1968. Described by some scholars as "the first conceptual exhibition," the box offers within its small confines recordings, films, and artworks by several contemporary artists, which will be seen and heard continuously at the exhibition.
The exhibit will run through October 26. A reception will be held on Thursday, September 20 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, noon to 5:00 p.m., or by appointment. For information about the exhibit, please call Gallery Director Beth Giles at (631) 287-8234.