Ryan Cronin
Mohonk Tulips
Mohonk Tulips
Mohonk Mountain House commissioned *Mohonk Tulips* in 2019. Cronin painted it the following year, after a month at Thread, the Albers Foundation artist residency in Senegal, West Africa. He came back with the colors of Senegal still in him and the practice of working with whatever was around him close to the surface.
*Mohonk Tulips* is one of the first paintings where Cronin started harvesting paint skins. When a can of oil enamel sits open, a thick skin forms over the paint. He pulled the skins out of the cans, saved them, cut them, manipulated them, painted on the paint itself. Alongside the brush, he worked the back of the handle into the wet paint and drew into it with a pencil, etching marks directly into the field. The texture is built. The rawness is intentional.
Every layered, scraped, hand-worked passage that defines his recent painting traces back to here.
36" x 60" · Oil paint on board · 2020 · Signed verso
Currently on view at Two Forty Thirty, New York. Private viewings can be arranged.
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