Dan McDermott - Second Focus
Enjoy Second Focus from Dan McDermott at Alon Zakaim Fine Art
Alon Zakaim Fine Art is this May be hosting Second Focus, an exhibition of oil paintings by Dan McDermott.
Second Focus breathes new life into scenes and figures from decades past.
Born of a childhood fascination with the glamour of adult life captured in movies and film, McDermott's work is directed by his attraction to the reproduced image. Drawing upon archives of photographic stills collected from film, internet, television and documentary footage from the 1940s to the present, McDermott reintroduces the subjects of these stills to the contemporary eye.
McDermott's works are characterised by atypical angles and a unique use of cropping. Employing an increasingly adventurous palette in these latest works, the colours are applied gradually from dark to light before the artists employs his distinctive blurring effect that plays with variations of light. These brilliantly vibrant canvases shimmer and flicker in the manner of the screens from where their subjects came.
The exhibition runs from Tuesday May 13th to Friday May 30th and is open Monday to Tuesday from 9am to 6pm and Saturday from 10am to 1pm.
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How to get there
The closest tube stations are at Oxford Circus and Piccadilly Circus.
If travelling by bus the 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 22, 23, 25, 38, 55, 73, 88, 94, 98, 113, 137, 139, 159, 176, 189, 390 and 453 serve the area.
