Aidan Doherty
Appearing in this year’s Jerwood Contemporary Painting Prize, Doherty’s work has previously been exhibited at Saatchi’s New Sensations and at the Royal Academy Summer show. A recent graduate from Wimbledon College of Art, Doherty is interested in painting as a tool for investigating and decoding the detritus that surrounds us on a daily basis. Exploring the relationship between surface, pattern, form and geometry, he creates semi-abstract works, beginning with a single shape that crystallizes through his brushwork. Doherty has been previously shortlisted for the Celeste Art prize.
A Compromising Situation
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Painting
35cm x 30cm
Oil on linen
Rendered in citrus shades against a liver-red background, the prism grid that forms the upper half of ‘A Compromising Situation’ draws the eye sharply into the painting. In this work, Doherty seems to be investigating the properties of colour, contrast and perspective, the outcome of which is reminiscent of paintings by the Constructivist and Cubist schools. When viewed with a ‘lazy eye’, the grids and lattices merge and blur and a visual shift is produced by the interplay of geometric shapes.
£515
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