Ryan Cronin
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head III
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head III
*Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head III* returns to gray on purpose. After moving the series through every direction he could reach, Cronin comes back to the slate ground of I. Same form. Same palette. Different painting.
The painting is the third of three Raindrops Cronin built together, the return after the saturated blue of II. The relationship was the work. The kind of return that only happens when an artist has been inside the work long enough to know what coming back means.
30" x 38" · Oil paint on board · 2022 · Signed verso
About *Umbrellas on Brain*
*Umbrellas on Brain* is a body of work Cronin painted over six months across 2021 and 2022.
The series moves between scales. For the better part of three decades, 48" x 48" was Cronin's vocabulary, the scale he worked in almost exclusively. It is only in the last ten years that he has begun to play with other dimensions, and *Umbrellas on Brain* is one of the series where that range first opens up. The collection holds both the signature scale and its variations side by side.
For six months, Cronin committed to a single subject. He went full in, moving the umbrella through palette after palette. The way he paints, a series is part observation, part practice, part response. Music in the studio, reading on the subject, immersion in what is around him. The painting absorbs all of it.
The surface is high-gloss Rust-Oleum enamel, poured thick, the brush moving paint that runs off it as he works. Industrial finish, human stroke. Two languages in the same painting, and the tension between them is what makes the work read.
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