Artists talk

Night and Day in Bully's Acre
Drinks will be served

gallery open SATURDAYS until 4 DEC 12- 5 pm

The painter Tim Allen is widely regarded as a major voice amidst the landscape of contemporary painting. Emerging from art school in the 70’s, his profile has grown steadily and his contribution to the language of painting is consistently exciting, authoritative and constantly on the move.

His recent inclusion in major exhibitions such as ‘From the Ferry’ in Luzern and ‘Painting from the year Zero’ in London, has assured a profile that has remained influential. OHOS are delighted to be hosting the first outing for a new body of his work, ‘Night and Day in Bully’s Acre’, largely produced recently in Dublin and showing a more complex layering than previous works.

The modus operandi of Tim Allen’s paintings appears to create a painterly surface constantly in a state of flux and latent with spatial ambiguity and potential. A graining, dragging technique underpins the physical execution of the work, creating a now shallow, now illusionistic pictorial space that oscillates between surface and void.

Like the late jazz riffs of the great John Coltrane, the paintings appear to be on the threshold of something recognisable and a solemn pictorial noise leaves us mesmerised and seduced.

High pitched optical colours shimmer and flutter across the surface, flirting with a painted environment that neatly evades descriptive meaning and figurative references. Any definitive conclusion or ‘reading’ is ultimately left open and precisely ambiguous.

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