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Kerlin Gallery announces Aleana Egan’s first exhibition at Kerlin Gallery. Aleana Egan’s art defines unique, subjective spaces between fictional
Read MoreKerlin Gallery announces Aleana Egan’s first exhibition at Kerlin Gallery. Aleana Egan’s art defines unique, subjective spaces between fictional
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Aleana Egan was born in 1979 in Dublin, Ireland, where she continues to live and work. Egan uses sculpture, video and drawing. Her process can be likened to a form of intuitive translation through which she generates interpretive responses to her surroundings and literary influences. Her abstract sculptures crafted out of painted cardboard and tape, or thin metal strips, trace paired-down forms. They evoke a sense of the object or site that inspired them while intimating the artist’s own inner musings about this source. Egan’s works exude a particular atmospheric quality born out of their careful attention to detail. For her on-going video project “Readings”, Egan records close acquaintances as they read out passages from their favorite literary texts, making her presence felt by limiting the videos’ color palette or inserting one of her pieces in the background. For the 5th Berlin Biennial, Egan created “ended casually in the water” (2008), titled after an Iris Murdoch novel. Hung across the Neue Nationalgalerie, the delicate undulating structure appeared as an aerial line drawing in turquoise blue, breaking up the strict architecture of Mies van der Rohe’s iconic building.
Recent exhibitions include: ‘Shapes From Life,’ The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2015); ‘light on a leaf,’ Galerie Konrad Fischer, Berlin (2015); ‘There are all sorts of lives,’ Mary Mary, Glasgow (2014); The Drawing Room, London (2011). She has recently presented solo shows at Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (2009), Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2008), Mary Mary, Glasgow (2006 and 2005) and Assembly Gallery, Glasgow (2003). Her work has also been shown as part of “Leopards in the Temple” at the Sculpture Center, New York (2010), “Nina Canell / Aleana Egan / Marzena Nowak” at Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf (2009), “Heavy Metal” at Kunsthalle zu Kiel (2008), the 5th Berlin Biennale (2008), “Eccentric Growth” at Galerie Sandra Buergel, Berlin (2006) and “Take it further (Part 2)” at Andrew Mummery Gallery, London (2005).
Aleana Egan is represented by Mary Mary, Glasgow.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
