The New Metropolis: New paintings by Simon McWilliams
5th August –30th August 2010
Skotia Gallery, Santa fe is pleased to welcome award winning Irish Artist Simon McWilliams to their roster of international artists.
These new paintings by Simon Mc Williams feature a coming together of paint and subject matter. His title for the exhibition: The New Metropolis, is a deliberate allusion to both fact and fantasy in our rapidly changing visual environment. The title prompts images of Fritz Lang's classic film and Pieter Brueghel's Tower of Babel. Mc Williams, however, in his creations, utilizes the powerful strangeness of the New City yet clothes it in such resplendent colour that we experience the majesty of the Tower rather than its dehumanizing characteristics.
His medium coalesces with the forms he is creating. He implants new energy into the paint which enlivens and becomes part of, the newly emerging buildings. The lush fecundity of the pigment gives birth to some startling structures and yet, one is aware of the drawing skills which underpin these edifices of paint.
