Much of Alan Clement’s unique visual language and subject matter derives from city and urban buildings. Clement's spaces are devoid of human life. They appear permanently deserted; totally abandoned in a post-human world. The decaying, linear structures and the severed pipe-like interconnections of the buildings seem fractured and deeply leeched by time. Door spaces are either completely open or resolutely closed. The bleak city and its infrastructures may still just be there - but humanity has gone.
The visual beauty and compositional ambiguity of Clement’s paintings is powerfully evocative. With quiet harmonies, many of these deceptively simple paintings present as tranquil and balanced; others have greater emotional intensity of color with more fluid mark-making. The lyrical arrangement of the abstract architectural forms gives a ethereal, subliminal meaning to these spare yet complex compositions.
Clement offers viewers a clear choice - make a direct, raw emotional response or dig deeper and interrogate his iconic images for hidden meanings suggested in all his paintings. His highly individualized and personal iconography radiates a visual, emotional and intellectual intensity.
Like his architectural icons, these spare, lyrical paintings still cling tenaciously to physical reality - despite their abstract qualities. His affinity for the work of Hopper, Scully and more deeply for Richard Diebenkorn's Ocean Park series is revealed in Clement's championing of horizontal and vertical structural compositional elements and in his atmospheric veils of luminous colour".
© Oleksa Szkocja 2008
Contact artist@alanclement.com
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Alan Clement - Irish Contemporary Artist
Much of Alan Clement’s unique visual language and subject matter derives from city and urban buildings. Clement's spaces are devoid of human life. They appear permanently deserted; totally abandoned in a post-human world. The decaying, linear structures and the severed pipe-like interconnections of the buildings seem fractured and deeply leeched by time. Door spaces are either completely open or resolutely closed. The bleak city and its infrastructures may still just be there - but humanity has gone.
The visual beauty and compositional ambiguity of Clement’s paintings is powerfully evocative. With quiet harmonies, many of these deceptively simple paintings present as tranquil and balanced; others have greater emotional intensity of color with more fluid mark-making. The lyrical arrangement of the abstract architectural forms gives a ethereal, subliminal meaning to these spare yet complex compositions.
Clement offers viewers a clear choice - make a direct, raw emotional response or dig deeper and interrogate his iconic images for hidden meanings suggested in all his paintings. His highly individualized and personal iconography radiates a visual, emotional and intellectual intensity.
Like his architectural icons, these spare, lyrical paintings still cling tenaciously to physical reality - despite their abstract qualities. His affinity for the work of Hopper, Scully and more deeply for Richard Diebenkorn's Ocean Park series is revealed in Clement's championing of horizontal and vertical structural compositional elements and in his atmospheric veils of luminous colour".
© Oleksa Szkocja 2008
Contact artist@alanclement.com
