by Karen Woodbury Gallery Location: Karen Woodbury Gallery
Artist(s): Patrick DOHERTY
Date: 26 Oct - 19 Nov 2011
Patrick Doherty's drawings and paintings depict imaginary scenes rich in symbolic iconography. His large-scale works on unstretched canvases present a range of isolated encounters and interactions between figures and objects, creating an overall story via flat tableau-like landscapes. Doherty's manic and naive technique explores the instinctive aspect of making work. The drawn line runs free as the viewer searches for a sense of refined order or moral to be found in the stories of vice and folly on offer in Doherty's work.