Corban Walker
23 Oct - 22 Nov 2007
CORBAN WALKER
23 Nov - 22 Dec 2007
Green on Red Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Corban Walker. This will be the artist’s first one-person exhibition in Dublin and with the Green on Red Gallery since 2002.
The exhibition will include five new sculptures shown for the first time.
The motivation for Walker’s glass sculptures comes from his perception of scale which derives from his height of 129cm. His sculptures and installations are primarily related to a process of defining a sense of scale and how he physically negotiates a territory that has been mapped out to accommodate a different height. Utilizing the qualities of two types of glass Clear Float and Diamante glass in this installation, where translucent depths of the material are refracting within itself, Walker presents the viewer with an environment that challenges their relationship to their surroundings. The sculptures are at once both tangible and reverent objects that provoke unease with the viewer where scale ebbs below their level of countenance. This is most apparent when the viewer engages with the method of construction in each work. Each of the five sculptures is made from slender rectilinear lengths of glass stacked upon one another. Each layer of the stack is separated by an interlayer preventing the glass from touching itself and forms a floating architectural structure veiled in contradiction. By the end of the formation in each work, Walker presents a collection of voids, recesses, cantilevers and increments that are mirroring the object that results in a consensus of opposites between the materials, the form, the gallery space and ultimately the viewer.
Corban Walker is widely regarded as one of the most significant Irish artists of his generation. Walker’s first solo show with Green on Red Gallery took place 1995 and has exhibited with the gallery regularly since then. He has also mounted solo exhibitions in Ireland, England, France, Chicago, New York and realized eight public commissions for important institutions such as the Bank of Scotland Headquarters, Dublin and Mitsubishi Estate Co. Ltd., Tokyo. His work is part of numerous public and private collections around the world. Walker first exhibited with PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York in the autumn of 2000, and recently in spring 2007. In 2004 Walker moved to New York where the artist currently lives and works.
23 Nov - 22 Dec 2007
Green on Red Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Corban Walker. This will be the artist’s first one-person exhibition in Dublin and with the Green on Red Gallery since 2002.
The exhibition will include five new sculptures shown for the first time.
The motivation for Walker’s glass sculptures comes from his perception of scale which derives from his height of 129cm. His sculptures and installations are primarily related to a process of defining a sense of scale and how he physically negotiates a territory that has been mapped out to accommodate a different height. Utilizing the qualities of two types of glass Clear Float and Diamante glass in this installation, where translucent depths of the material are refracting within itself, Walker presents the viewer with an environment that challenges their relationship to their surroundings. The sculptures are at once both tangible and reverent objects that provoke unease with the viewer where scale ebbs below their level of countenance. This is most apparent when the viewer engages with the method of construction in each work. Each of the five sculptures is made from slender rectilinear lengths of glass stacked upon one another. Each layer of the stack is separated by an interlayer preventing the glass from touching itself and forms a floating architectural structure veiled in contradiction. By the end of the formation in each work, Walker presents a collection of voids, recesses, cantilevers and increments that are mirroring the object that results in a consensus of opposites between the materials, the form, the gallery space and ultimately the viewer.
Corban Walker is widely regarded as one of the most significant Irish artists of his generation. Walker’s first solo show with Green on Red Gallery took place 1995 and has exhibited with the gallery regularly since then. He has also mounted solo exhibitions in Ireland, England, France, Chicago, New York and realized eight public commissions for important institutions such as the Bank of Scotland Headquarters, Dublin and Mitsubishi Estate Co. Ltd., Tokyo. His work is part of numerous public and private collections around the world. Walker first exhibited with PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York in the autumn of 2000, and recently in spring 2007. In 2004 Walker moved to New York where the artist currently lives and works.