Brian Gormley
b. 1959, New York City
On October 7, 2010, Jules Goldman Books and Antiques opened its inaugural art show, an exhibition of paintings, collages, and prints by longtime friend Brian Gormley. Gormley, born and raised in Manhattan, came of age in the great era of New York City street art in the 1980s.
Gormley regularly exhibits outside the United States, with prior shows at the prestigious Hillsboro Gallery in Dublin as well as in Vienna, Prague, Zurich, Rome and Mexico City. After the opening of a recent exhibition of printmaking at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, director Enrique Juncosa celebrated Gormley’s contribution to the show with a sit-down dinner for the artist and 200 of the museum’s top patrons at the Clarence Hotel, owned by Bono and The Edge.
As the distinguished Irish critic Brian Fallon has noted, “Gormley continues to expand upon a style which is Sui Generis.” Gormley’s paintings combine an intense intellectual abstraction with sublime beauty. His powerful printmaking leaves no doubt that the work is created by a master of the mark.
Gormley regularly exhibits outside the United States, with prior shows at the prestigious Hillsboro Gallery in Dublin as well as in Vienna, Prague, Zurich, Rome and Mexico City. After the opening of a recent exhibition of printmaking at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, director Enrique Juncosa celebrated Gormley’s contribution to the show with a sit-down dinner for the artist and 200 of the museum’s top patrons at the Clarence Hotel, owned by Bono and The Edge.
As the distinguished Irish critic Brian Fallon has noted, “Gormley continues to expand upon a style which is Sui Generis.” Gormley’s paintings combine an intense intellectual abstraction with sublime beauty. His powerful printmaking leaves no doubt that the work is created by a master of the mark.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2011 2010 2009 2005 2003 2002 2000 1998 1994 |
Jules Goldman Books and Art, Philadelphia
Jules Goldman Books and Art, Philadelphia Mindy Wyatt Gallery, New York Small Works, Panoply, Lambertville, NJ Changing Face of Abstraction, R.A.T. Gallery, Gardenville, PA Pop Montreal Symposium, Montreal New York Paintings, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin (catalog) New Work by Visiting Artists, Graphic Studio, Dublin Stover Mill Gallery, Bucks County, PA Galerie Ariadne, Wien, Germany Taller Gallery, Madrid (catalog) Carleton Hotel, Madrid De Arte Magic, Easton, PA (catalog) Wyvern Gallery, Dublin (catalog) Galeria Vyšehrad, Prague (catalog) |
Selected Bibliography
Michael Carter, “Studio in the Street, Street in the Studio: Basquiat, Borofsky, Gormley, Haring, Hiratsuka,”
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT, 2007.
Michael, Carter, and Gormley Brian, "On Bolus Head," Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania: En Garde Books/The Cill Rialag Project, 2012.
Aidan Dunne, review of New York Paintings solo exhibition, The Irish Times, Dublin, February 9, 2005: 14.
Kenneth J. Endick, “Artist’s Bold Works on Display in Easton,” The Express-Times, Easton, PA, February 13,
1998: 9.
Poppy Evans, “Serigraphy on the Fringe,” Screen Printing 84, no. 1 (January 1994): 92-95.
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT, 2007.
Michael, Carter, and Gormley Brian, "On Bolus Head," Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania: En Garde Books/The Cill Rialag Project, 2012.
Aidan Dunne, review of New York Paintings solo exhibition, The Irish Times, Dublin, February 9, 2005: 14.
Kenneth J. Endick, “Artist’s Bold Works on Display in Easton,” The Express-Times, Easton, PA, February 13,
1998: 9.
Poppy Evans, “Serigraphy on the Fringe,” Screen Printing 84, no. 1 (January 1994): 92-95.
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