Tom Climent | Future Light | Sternview Gallery | 1st December - 28th January 2017

Sternview Gallery @ nash19 | 19 Princes Street, Cork, Ireland | +353 (0)21 4270880 | [email protected] | Sternview Gallery

Future Light - an exhibition of new paintings - continues Climent’s consideration of colour and form with his transformations of landscape. His distinctive manipulations of geometric forms abound with energy and colour invoking impressions both familiar and mystifying. His play with shape and structure hold an ever-present working for regeneration, a searching for orientations to see and make the world anew. Climent’s works hold merging references with cubism and landscape painting to generate works of contemplative shelter, ritual and hopefulness.

‘First and foremost they are a celebration of shape and colour and in purely sensory terms, Climent’s paintings are not unlike the colour-field abstraction of Joseph Albers or Mark Rothko. The main difference being the artists’ trademark ‘flatness’ is folded by Climent into a representation of solidity through a series of intricate, origami manoeuvres carried out by some unseen force.’ – Mark Ewart, The Irish Examiner, October, 2014

Tom Climent lives and works in Cork and exhibits frequently with solo exhibitions at: In its Reflection, Solomon Fine Art, Dublin, (2016); The Season Map, The Gallery Room at Liss Ard Estate, Co. Cork, (2015); Vessels, The Luan Gallery, Athlone, (2014). Group exhibitions include: VUE, National Contemporary Art Fair, RHA Galleries, Dublin, (2016): Glow, Catherine Hammond Gallery, Co. Cork, (2016); SHUFFLE, Herrick Gallery, London (2016); The Retrieval of the Beautiful, The Painting Center, New York, (2016); Selected Artist for Eigse, Carlow Arts Festival, (2014); Exposure, Doswell Gallery, Co. Cork, (2014); Trí, J.Cacciola Gallery, New York, (2013).

Visit  www.tomcliment.com  for more information on Tom's work