christopher colm morrin

Exhibition

Real Life, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp
25 February - 26 March 2023

Ilse D’Hollander, Lois Dodd, Christopher Colm Morrin, Jesse Murry, Heidrun Rathgeb, Peter Shear, Trevor Shimizu, Frank Walter. 

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Christopher Colm Morrin applies various viscosities of paint to a coarse surface. He divides the surface horizontal into areas, suggesting a table and wall or possibly a landscape and sky. What is the black and yellow object we see lying diagonally between the slanting lower area (gray) and larger upper expanse (reddish-brown)? What do the three daubs of evenly spaced blue paint on the blade-like yellow section signify? Might the black and yellow object be a knife or an artist’s tool? The directness of the paint application and the feeling that we are looking at a familiar object is offset by the three blue daubs. The painting is simultaneously familiar and utterly mysterious, which keeps us looking and speculating.

Text by John Yau, discussing the painting ‘Still’, 2022.

The text of John Yau is from the essay “In Ceaseless Dialogue” in the book Real Life: Ilse D’Hollander.

John Yau is an American poet and art critic.