Navan artist's show in New York

Navan artist Shay Culligan, who is based in New York, this week stages his solo exhibition ‘TEN’ as the inaugural opening of the O’Farrell Gallery in Port Chester, New York.
The O’Farrell Gallery is also run by a Navan native, Sharon O’Farrell, who  opened the exhibition with a view to showcasing the work of contemporary Irish and other European and American visual artists, a cultural medium which is now projecting a positive response to the nation’s recent catastrophic economic woes.
‘TEN’ is a decade-long retrospective in the serigraphy medium, where Shay has screen printed his own photos and designs onto canvas. Whereas in the past notable artists have screen printed black and white photos in colour, he has taken serigraphy to another level by reproducing coloir photos using colour channel separation techniques he learned from offset printing.
Sharon O’Farrell believes it is time to introduce New York and Connecticut to the modern face of Irish visual art: independent, confident, resilient, globally aware, socially conscious, innovative, provocative, and dismissive of traditional stereotypes. Both Sharon and Shay have known each other since childhood. When last year Shay held a solo exhibition in Boston, he had no hint that within 12 months he would be staging another solo show so near to New York City, curated by his old friend and neighbour from Navan. “It’s all happened so fast. I only hope that I can put on an exhibition worthy of the rapid progress that Sharon has made in New York,” he says.
The exhibition runs from Thursday 29th August to Saturday 7th September. See www.tenshay.com.