Mind (in) the spot
Ryan O'Rourke

Ryan O’Rourke interferes with traditional pictorial structures and demonstrates that the painted picture is, in essence, a set of coloured patches on a base. The organisation of these patches is in part the result of chance, various parameters peculiar to materials, the act of painting itself, as well as people themselves, ie: the author on the one hand, who brings meaning into the picture and the viewer on the other, who projects their own ideas into the picture as well as seeing their own meanings in it. O’Rourke also constructs paintings tending towards the abstract from relatively objectively recognisable elements and thematises in this way the veiled and unclear border between representation and abstraction.