David and Jonathan with the Head of Goliath

Ryan Driscoll

David and Jonathan with the Head of Goliath, 201975 x 57cmSign in to view price
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oil on boardSoft Opening
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This vibrant painting features a striking composition with a dramatic interplay of colors and figures. The central scene depicts two women, one with a thoughtful expression and the other with an alluring gaze, set against a lush, verdant backdrop. The figures' poses and gestures suggest an underlying tension or narrative. The artist's distinctive style, marked by bold, stylized brushwork and a surreal, dreamlike quality, evokes the aesthetics of 20th-century Modernism. The artwork's narrative elements and symbolic imagery likely reflect the artist's personal or cultural perspectives, inviting the viewer to ponder the deeper significance and context behind this captivating visual. ...

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Athena and Pallas (death of Pallas)
Artist
Ryan Driscoll
B.1992, British

Ryan Driscoll’s portraits – inspired just as much by modern photographers such as Cindy Sherman and Dora Maar as they are by painters like Rossetti and Bronzino – co-opt Late Renaissance painting techniques and compositions to explore queered perceptions of beauty, love and death. Queer experience is communicated through Driscoll’s uses of the rich symbolic language and intertextuality found in Mannerism painting, in which every element and object holds great significance and allegory. His work also invokes Greek and Roman mythology, melodrama and fantasy to subvert fixed notions of gender. In his paintings, predominantly crafted with oil on wooden board and using himself as a life model, represent androgynous, fluid figures who are able to assert both tenderness, fragility and power. ...

Ryan Driscoll: Artworks
David and Jonathan with the Head of Goliath
Ryan Driscoll
David and Jonathan with the Head of Goliath, 2019
75 x 57cm
Saturn
The Weird Sisters
Ryan Driscoll
The Weird Sisters, 2020
70 x 50cm
Uranus
Uranus
Venus
Athena and Pallas (death of Pallas)
Ryan Driscoll
Athena and Pallas (death of Pallas), 2018
50 x 40.5cm
Lady of Sorrows
Ryan Driscoll
Lady of Sorrows, 2017-2019
48 x 37.5cm
Mars
Soft Opening
Gallery
Soft Opening
London

Founded in 2018 by Antonia Marsh, Soft Opening presents UK-based and international emerging contemporary artists, and often their first solo presentations in London. Focusing on work pushing the conventional limits of medium or material, the gallery presents a wide range of media and practices. Soft Opening built its early program with projects that responded to the gallery’s unique first location in Piccadilly Circus Underground Station. Opening a second space in East London in 2019 saw programming strategy develop as Soft Opening began participating in international art fairs and representing artists. Programming is now focused at this East London space. In 2020 the gallery began publishing artist monographs - the first was with Tenant of Culture in 2020 followed by Gina Fischli in 2021 and Sin Wai Kin in 2022. ...

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