Ryan Cronin
When It Rains It Pours II
When It Rains It Pours II
Cronin pushes the umbrella off center on purpose. The form stays in control even from the edge of the field, the composition arranged around it. Across the series, he held one subject steady and moved everything else, painting after painting. *When It Rains It Pours II* is one of those quiet shifts. A small gesture. The kind that only emerges when an artist stays inside one subject long enough to find it.
35" 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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