J AMES McGR ATH MODICUS
Cover: James McGrath Rooster’s Shadow oil on canvas mounted to board 30 x 21 cm
JAMES McGRATH MODICUS 19 September – 7 October 2018 Exhibition Opening Saturday 22 September, 2 – 4 pm
Books + Peacock 1 2018 oil on canvas on board 45 x 42 cm
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White Drape 2018 oil on canvas on board 80 x 60 cm
Walking through murky thoughts 2018 oil on canvas on board 40 x 60 cm
Pheasant’s Shadow 2018 oil on canvas on board 21 x 30 cm
Peacock’s Shadow 1 2018 oil on canvas on board 49 x 36 cm
Heron’s Shadow 2018 oil on canvas on board 21 x 30 cm
Heron’s Shadow 1 2018 oil on canvas on board 30 x 21 cm
Heron in Library 2 2018 oil on canvas on board 30 x 21 cm
Heron in Library 3 2018 oil on canvas on board 21 x 30 cm
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Heron in Library 1 2018 oil on canvas on board 60 x 104 cm
Ex Libris Avem 2018 oil on board 72 x 39 cm
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Modicus 1 2018 oil on canvas on board 40 x 60 cm
Modicus 2 2018 oil on canvas 38 x 60 cm
Rabbit Study 2018 oil on canvas 30 x 21 cm
Peacock’s Gold 2 2018 oil on canvas 49 x 36 cm
Heron’s Shadow 4 2018 oil on canvas 30 x 21 cm
Heron’s Shadow 5 2018 oil on canvas 30 x 21 cm
Heron’s Shadow 3 2018 oil on canvas 30 x 21 cm
Ex Libris Heron 4 2018 oil on canvas 40 x 35 cm
Books + Peacock 2 2018 oil on canvas 45 x 42 cm
Books + Bird 2018 oil on canvas 45 x 42 cm
Heron’s Shadow 3 2018 oil on canvas 40 x 25 cm
Opposite: Speculo 2 2018 oil on canvas 30 cm diameter (4 circle panels)
Study of Diorama 2018 oil on canvas 30 x 21 cm
Study of Heron 2018 oil on canvas 40 x 38 cm
Flooded Library 2 2018 oil on canvas 79 x 102 cm
Opposite: Ex Libris / Falling 2018 oil on canvas 100 x 187 cm
James McGrath Born in Sydney in 1969, McGrath studied the techniques and principles of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century masters at the studio school of Patrick Betaudier in Paris. Before graduating as an architect he worked as a studio assistant with Australia’s greatest expressionist painter, Arthur Boyd. While a lecturer in design and communications at New South Wales University, he was awarded several prizes for architecture and art, including the Australian Postgraduate Award and a residency in Paris. Over the last ten years he has exhibited in New York, London, Sydney and Paris. He has also produced highly original acclaimed digital installations and videos commissioned by several Australian museums and subsequently presented at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, in 2000. In 1999 and 2000 his work was included in the Sydney and New York film festivals.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: 2016 Ocular/Speculo, Olsen Irwin, Sydney 2015 Ocular/Fleur, Cat St Gallery, Hong Kong
2014 2013 2012
Ocular/Fleurs, Olsen Irwin, Sydney Olsen Irwin at Melbourne Art Fair Lacuna/Anamnesis, Olsen Irwin, Sydney Marnling Press Group Show, Maitland Regional Art Gallery
2011
Ex Libris, Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2010 2009
Cranium, Artereal Gallery, Group Show, Sydney Chiaroscuro, Artereal Gallery, Group Show, Sydney CarriageARTworks, Carriageworks, group show, Sydney Sculpture by the Sea, Sydney
2008
Tim Olsen Gallery, Sydney
2007 2006 2005 2004
Pozzo's Shadow, Gibsone Jessop Gallery, Toronto, Canada 400 Years, Gibsone Jessop Gallery, Toronto, Canada Variations on Baroque Ceilings, Michael Carr Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia Solo painting exhibition Vision & Verse, Nevill Keating Gallery, London, video and digital prints Baroque Ensembles, MCG Galleries, Solo show of paintings, video and digital prints New York Quadrautura, Michael Carr Art Gallery, Sydney Dutchscapes, MCG Galleries, Solo show of paintings, video and digital prints New York Infra-red Baroque, Michael Carr art gallery, Sydney
2003 2002 2001
Tugboat film and video series: “Tidal vectors”, NYC, Railroad Barge at Pier 63 2000
J. Paul Getty Museum & Laguna Art Museum, "Baroque and modernity", Screening of “Theatres of anatomy" Museum of Sydney “Harbour/Metropolis” Audio Visual installation 'Tidal vectors' Michael Carr Art
Gallery, Sydney, "Cusp - a study of folds and flora", National Digital Art Awards Group Show, Queensland
1999 1998 1996 1995
Museum of modern Art, Brisbane, Sydney City Exhibition space, Customs House, "motion eye" and "city draped" Audio/visual installations Sydney Film Festival, "Theatres of anatomy", digital animation D.art 99, Twin Academy, Paddington, Sydney Sculpture by The Sea festival, "CUSP#2", Site specific digital performance, Tamarama Beach, Sydney, Australia Queen Street Fine Art, Sydney, Solo Exhibition Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, Solo Exhibition Queen Street Fine Art, Sydney, Solo Exhibition
AWARDS/PRIZES: 2003 Blake Finalist Exhibition, Sydney NSW Ministry of Arts Project grant 1999 Australian Arts Council new media Commission, Sydney 1st Class Honours UNSW, B.Arch.
1998
National Digital Art Award, Brisbane
1997
Sculpture By the Sea Directors Award (video installation) Australian Post Graduate Award
1996 1990
Moya Goring Paris Studio residency, Cite des Arts, Paris Bioloa International Design Award
MUSEUM COMMISSIONS: 2002 Customs House, "Digital Hall of Mirrors", City Exhibition Space
Sydney
2001
“Titians” gaze, Korossy residence, New York
2000 1999
Museum of Sydney "Tidal Vectors", Harbour / Metropolis Exhibtion" Customs House "City drape" City Exhibition Space, Sydney
1998
"BTF" East Circular Quay The Colonnade Sydney "Wink" Cnr. Bligh and Hunter Street Sydney CBD"
PUBLISHED/REPRODUCED: 2011 Unpacking the Painted Library, The Australian Financial Review, Brooke Turner, 22/9/2011 2008 James McGrath, Spectrum, The Sydney Morning Herald, 11/10/2008
2003
Art Review Magazine, London, Feb/ March, Artist Profile
2001
Sydney: metropolis/ suburb /harbour, Peter Emmett, Museum of Sydney book on series of exhibitions in which the work “tidal vectors” The Australian, “Medium subverts message”, Benjamin Genocchio
JAMES McGRATH MODICUS 19 September – 7 October 2018 Exhibition Opening Saturday 22 September, 2 – 4 pm