Jane Humphries previews new paintings and works on paper by John Cronin at Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
Since graduating from the National College of Art and Design in 1988, John Cronin has been exhibiting internationally, receiving a major grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., and was recently selected for a major review of contemporary abstract painters in such eminent company as Callum Innes, Howard Hodgkin and Sean Scully. Writing of Cronin’s 2004 exhibition, ‘Palinode’, New York-based critic Donald Kuspit hailed it as hope for an art, after his end of art theories, writing: ‘…he puts the “juice” back into modernist painting, after Greenberg’s post-painterly theory squeezed it out’ sealing Cronin’s reputation as one of the most exciting abstract painters of his generation.
