Crane Visual: Possible Life by Chris Doris

Opening reception 6 - 8pm Thursday 1st August
All welcome to attend, refreshments served.

Crane Visual are proud to present a new body of works by Chris Doris artist. Doris offers us a series of large ‘punk zen’, Indian ink brush drawings on watercolour paper. They are ambiguous in alluding to cellular and planetary cosmic fields of becoming. The images are informed by Doris' long experience as a meditator and psychotherapist in Western and Buddhist psychology. These works rest on the contemplative seeing of somatic and cosmic fields - macro and micro.

Doris writes of these works:

“These Indian and acrylic ink works on watercolour paper began with a long twisted stick, a bowl of water and an impulse to reclaim the power of gestural mark making for myself.

Gesture was where I began, under the influence of teachers like Patrick Graham, himself influenced by David Bomberg’s, spirit in matter”.

“Flow is also helpful for making gestures that have lasting value. Flow is a peak performance state of high functioning absorption in the task. They work for me when made in flow presence, oriented to a productive and sustaining emptiness, with things becoming from nothing.”

“Painting is a record of ethical choices and actions in a prescribed field. Gesture, as a record of an action within a boundaried system of values- a painting- is an important aspect of that meaning. It is mark making informed by biology, social construction and spiritual presence.”

“They could be fields of cellular activity or cosmic fields of becoming.”

Crane Visual is a Visual Arts and Interdisciplinary Social Space curated and managed by Dermot Browne and located in the Musgrave Theatre at Dance Cork Firkin Crane.