Mark Joyce
Mark Joyce’s work explores the anomalies and phenomenological strangeness of our optical experience, with ideas drawn from scientific and philosophical concepts of physical light. Joyce suggests ideas of spontaneity, of everyday life, improvisation, fragility and emphasis on the process. His images are dynamic, celebratory and vibrant—handmade compositions of colored lines, mostly on white and neutral backgrounds. Everything is a theoretical reaction to light, yet understood as something physical and tangible, not just visible.
Joyce’s work covers from accurate and slow-paced geometries, to complex, unstable situations referring to acrobatics, choreographies or constructions of playing cards. His work has a playful and happy aspect; it even responds to a curiosity that could be deemed scientific.
He has had solo exhibitions in Ireland, UK and the USA and curated exhibitions in The Model, Sligo, Sydney Non Objective, Australia and at Petit Port in Leiden. He is represented by the Green on Red Gallery, Dublin and is in the collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Arts Council of Ireland. He has been Artist in Residence at the Albers Foundation, USA, Icelandic Centre for the Arts, Reykjavik, Heinrich Boll Cottage, Co.Mayo and at NAFA, Singapore. He was a founder of The Drawing …
Mark Joyce’s work explores the anomalies and phenomenological strangeness of our optical experience, with ideas drawn from scientific and philosophical concepts of physical light. Joyce suggests ideas of spontaneity, of everyday life, improvisation, fragility and emphasis on the process. His images are dynamic, celebratory and vibrant—handmade compositions of colored lines, mostly on white and neutral backgrounds. Everything is a theoretical reaction to light, yet understood as something physical and tangible, not just visible.
Joyce’s work covers from accurate and slow-paced geometries, to complex, unstable situations referring to acrobatics, choreographies or constructions of playing cards. His work has a playful and happy aspect; it even responds to a curiosity that could be deemed scientific.
He has had solo exhibitions in Ireland, UK and the USA and curated exhibitions in The Model, Sligo, Sydney Non Objective, Australia and at Petit Port in Leiden. He is represented by the Green on Red Gallery, Dublin and is in the collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Arts Council of Ireland. He has been Artist in Residence at the Albers Foundation, USA, Icelandic Centre for the Arts, Reykjavik, Heinrich Boll Cottage, Co.Mayo and at NAFA, Singapore. He was a founder of The Drawing Project, IADT-Dublin and is currently Director of Art at Yale-National University of Singapore.
Courtesy of Green on Red Gallery
