Ria Czerniak-LeBov, Richard Lawlor and David McGinn
30 April – 28 May, 2022
All unsold works will be available from our ONLINE SHOP.
Featuring new works by artists Ria Czerniak-LeBov, Richard Lawlor and David McGinn, Sub/Plot is an exhibition of Fine Art Prints, drawing influence from cinema, narrative and the mechanics of lens based media. With visual references to Andrei Tarkovsky, David Lynch and Film Noir, these artists have a shared language, creating and staging scenes into which the viewer may wander. Lawlor’s use of theatrical lighting, pose and costume seem to capture his subjects in action. Similarly, McGinn’s compositions feature intrigue, an inexplicable sense of foreboding, despite there being no indication as to events we are bearing witness to. Czerniak-LeBov’s etchings, unpeopled and distorted, reference the medium of film itself. Static, negatives and the signature monochrome shadows of Noir are employed to create spaces that are both familiar and utterly surreal.
Ria Czerniak-LeBov is a printmaker and multidisciplinary artist from Dublin. A full-time member of Graphic Studio Dublin, she works predominantly in etching and aquatint. In these prints Ria explores the relationship between old and new technologies. Through a visual vocabulary drawn from cinema, photography, pixelation and digital glitches, she employs traditional print techniques to capture our rapidly changing visual landscape.
Richard Lawlor is also a Dublin based printmaker and member of Graphic Studio Dublin. This series of etchings is based on a mix of photography and film stills. He portrays people who are both renowned and unknown in the public domain, each piece telling a story, often tragic or mysterious. Through their narratives, each person has enjoyed a brief flash of notoriety, thus the work imbues temporality, evoking the fragmentation of reality and our fragility as humans. They engage the viewer, allowing the drama of our existence to creep into the works, provoking thoughts and the urge to discuss our condition and meaning of life.
David McGinn is a printmaker based in Black Church Print Studio, Dublin. Working in a variety of mediums, predominantly screenprint, etching and aquatint. In this body of prints David captured stills from Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1979 masterpiece Stalker, appropriating the films bleakly beautiful screen captures, manipulating them digitally and taking them through an array of printmaking techniques. These works are explorations of space and non space. The liminal no man’s land depicted, the cinematic space and the printed surface itself, all merge to create an uncanny landscape.
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- Ria Czerniak-LeBov, 'Sanctum', Ed of 20, Etching and Aquatint, Image size: 40h x 38w cm, Paper Size: 62h x 58w cm, Price: €420 unframed, €560 framed
- Ria Czerniak-LeBov, 'Static', Ed of 20, Etching and Aquatint, Image size: 13h x 12w cm, Paper size: 35h x 32w cm, Price: €210 unframed, €290 framed
- Ria Czerniak-LeBov, 'Outlier', Ed of 20, Etching and Aquatint, Image size: 26h x 30w cm, Paper size: 48h x 50w cm, Price: €330 unframed, €450 framed
- Ria Czerniak-LeBov, 'Conduit', Ed of 20, Etching and Aquatint, Image size: 34h x 44w cm, Paper Size: 56h x 64w cm, Price: €420 unframed, €560 framed
- Ria Czerniak-LeBov, 'Chasm', Ed of 20, Etching and Aquatint, Image size: 26h x 31w cm, Paper size: 48h x 50w cm, Price: €330 unframed, €450 framed
- Ria Czerniak-LeBov, 'Impasse', Ed of 5, Composite varied edition, Etching and Aquatint, Image & Paper size: 30h x 30.5w cm, Price: €300 framed
- Ria Czerniak-LeBov, 'Traverse', Ed of 5, Composite varied edition, Etching and Aquatint, Image & Paper size: 32h x 27.5w cm, Price: €300 framed
- Ria Czerniak-LeBov, 'Vault', Ed of 5, Composite varied edition, Etching & Aquatint, Image & Paper size: 38h x 46.5.5w cm, Price: €365 framed
- Ria Czerniak-LeBov, 'Lancet', Ed of 5, Composite varied edition, Etching and Aquatint, Image & Paper size: 51h x 35w cm, Price: €495 framed
- Richard Lawlor, 'Savage Nomad', Etching, Edition of 40, Image Size: 28h x 22w cm, Paper Size: 46h x 37w cm, Price: €220 unframed €320 framed
- Richard Lawlor, 'Shadow of A Smile', Etching, Edition of 40, Image Size: 24h x 17w cm, Paper Size: 44h x 34w cm, Price: €200 unframed, €290 framed
- Richard Lawlor, 'To Break A Roses Neck', Etching, Edition of 40, Image Size: 22h x 29w cm, Paper Size: 42h x 35w cm, Price: €230 unframed, €320 framed
- Richard Lawlor, 'Whistling in the Dark', Etching, Edition of 40, Image Size: 18h x 20w cm, Paper Size: 39h x 36w cm, Price: €200 unframed, €285 framed
- Richard Lawlor, 'Sand Roads of Southern Nights Alone', Etching, Edition of 30, Image Size: 18h x 24w cm, Paper Size: 39h x 43w cm, Price: €220 unframed, €310 framed
- Richard Lawlor, 'Love, The Hard Way', Etching, Edition of 40, Image Size: 20h x 28w cm, Paper Size: 39h x 44w cm, Price: €200 unframed, €290 framed
- Richard Lawlor, '20th Century Boy', Etching, Edition of 35, Image Size: 13.5h x 23.5w cm, Paper Size: 31h x 29w cm, Price: €180 unframed, €260 framed
- David McGinn, Clearing, Etching and Aquatint, Ed. of 25, Image size: 8.5h x 8.5w cm, Paper Size: 20h x 16w cm, Unframed Price: €90, Framed Price: €135
- David McGinn, Flooded Interior, Etching and Aquatint, Ed. of 20, Image Size: 15h x 19.5w cm, Paper Size: 31h x 28w cm, Unframed Price: €200, Framed Price: €280
- David McGinn, Cave Mouth, Etching and Aquatint, Ed. of 20, Image Size: 27h x 37w cm, Paper size: 39h x 47w cm, Unframed Price: €400, Framed Price: €495
- David McGinn, In the Long Grass, Etching and Aquatint, Ed. of 20, Image Size: 15h x 18.5w cm, Paper Size: 30h x 35w cm, Unframed Price: €200, Framed Price: €280
- David McGinn, Interior, Etching and Aquatint, Ed. of 25, Image Size: 15h x 19.5w cm, Paper size: 21h x 25w cm, Unframed Price: €210, Framed Price: €290
- David McGinn, Isolator, Etching and Aquatint, Ed. of 25, Image & Paper Size: 23h x 25w cm, Unframed Price: €210, Framed Price: €290
- David McGinn, On the Rails, Screenprint, Ed. of 15, Image & Paper Size: 30h x 35w cm, Unframed Price: €300, Framed Price: €395
- David McGinn, Powerplant, Etching and Aquatint, Ed. of 20, Image Size:15h x 19.5w cm, Paper Size: 28h x 31w cm, Unframed Price: €200, Framed Price: €280
- David McGinn, Tracking, Screenprint, Ed. of 15, Image & Paper Size: 30h x 35w cm, Unframed Price: €300, Framed Price: €395
- David McGinn, White Bag, Etching and Aquatint, Ed. of 20, Image & Paper Size: 15h x 20w cm, Unframed Price: €200, Framed Price: €280