Ryan Cronin
Right as Rain
Right as Rain
Cronin lets in yellow only here. The series moves through palette after palette, but he holds yellow back until this one painting at full signature scale. The corners break open, the umbrella holds center, the mood lifts. A decision made deep in a body of work. *Right As Rain* is the brightest, most extroverted moment in *Umbrellas on Brain*.
48" x 48" · Oil paint on board · 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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