Eamon O'Kane: Magical mystery modernism
Eamon O'Kane - Magical mystery modernism
It has been almost two years since we had our first solo exhibition in the gallery with Eamon O'Kane. This time he shows a wider palette, paintings in various formats, drawings, and sculptures.
Known for his deep engagement with the legacies of modernist architecture and the atmospheres of historical places, O'Kane's latest body of work revisits the studios of iconic artists Edvard Munch at Ekely in Oslo and Claude Monet at Giverny in France. These intimate depictions reflect on the spaces where artistic vision is formed-where the personal, the architectural, and the natural merge.
The exhibition makes up an aesthetic whole as well as an academic investigation and emotional processing of modernism's visual expression and cultural content. It includes striking new paintings of Eileen Gray’s E-1027, Lina Bo Bardi’s Casa Bo Bardi, Walter Gropius’s office, and the Los Angeles residence of writer Thomas Mann. Each architectural subject is reimagined through O’Kane’s distinctive lens, revealing both the cultural resonance of these spaces and their poetic potential. O'Kane's artistry dwells upon modernism as a lost, magical and mysterious universe and era.
Alongside these works, the exhibition features vibrant, meditative paintings of trees—a recurring motif in O’Kane’s practice that speaks to time, memory, and environmental consciousness. These botanical studies form a quiet counterpoint to the modernist structures, bridging the organic and the constructed.
Eamon O’Kane is an internationally exhibited artist and professor based in Norway and Denmark. His work has been shown at institutions and galleries across Europe and North America, and he is widely recognized for his multifaceted explorations of architecture, ecology, memory, and pedagogy.
