Green On Red Gallery is proud to announce a new solo exhibition by Mark Joyce. The ‘ wandering ‘ in the exhibition title is a reference to the physics of light and celestial mechanics.  It is also a nod to his artistic journey over the decades through the indeterminacy of painting.

Joyce uses an arc motif, an elemental unit of human invention and expression with oblique reference to early human structures, to manuscripts and notations or, as the artist likes to say, to ‘ stuff holding stuff up ’.  These works set out with a procedural rigour.  However, motifs that appear stable go through repetition and variation, modest but consequential, becoming out of kilter.  From a rhythmic and mechanical foundation, a bending of the light, familiar like the rings of Saturn – or the passing lights on the nearby orbital motorway – the errors accumulate, an entropic unspooling, fragmenting towards chaos and disorder.

Joyce’s first solo exhibition with the gallery since Solas Salach ( 2018 ), these new works were painted in his studio at Broombridge on the Royal Canal, Dublin 7, where, in 1843, William Rowan Hamilton scratched his fundamental algebraic formulas into the stone of the bridge, laying the foundations for the new celestial mechanics and chaos theory.

Mark Joyce is an artist and educator based in Dublin whose practice is characterized by an ongoing inquiry into the physical nature of light and the materiality of pigment. He studied at the Royal College of Art, London, and has held solo exhibitions in Ireland, the UK, and the USA. He has been a Professor of Practice in Yale University and the National University of Singapore, Visiting Professor at Kyoto City University of the Arts, and Erasmus Mundus Visiting Fellow in the University of Arts, Helsinki, and is currently a lecturer at IADT in Dublin. His work is represented in public collections, including the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Arts Council of Ireland/An Chomhairle Ealaíon.