Derek Sean Quinlan at Artguise
Last night, I attended the vernissage of my friend — and sometime guitarist — Derek Quinlan’s latest show of new paintings, called Still Living, at Artguise Gallery.
It was a busy show on a warm night. A lot of people came, and the room got so close that there were always some guests out cooling off with their drinks on the sidewalk of Bank Street.
Derek works from snapshots, producing paintings that are at least superficially . . . the quality of a fleeting memory. representative and realistic, yet distant and abstracted. The images have the quality of a fleeting memory. These paintings are very good, the best work I’ve seen of his, and they are being well received.
Drop by Artguise if you want to see them — it’s at 590 Bank Street in The Glebe. Derek will be there some evenings too, so tell him I sent you.
Congratulations, Derek!