Artists

Ronan Day-Lewis

Press release

Nino Mier Gallery is pleased to present Recent history, the gallery's first solo exhibition with New York–based artist and filmmaker Ronan Day-Lewis. Opening with a reception on June 11 at the gallery's Allard 25 location, the exhibition spans painting, installation, and video. This body of work, which includes several monumental paintings, is the culmination of a multi-year project in which the artist has scavenged amateur early-two-thousands Flickr uploads and other internet archival imagery to fabricate a new collective memory bank which fuses disparate experiences into an enigmatic, invented narrative teetering on the edge of coherence and fragmentation. Developing the source references into luminous oil pastel works on linen which feel both oneiric and at times startlingly photographic, the artist proposes a singular aesthetic and poetic vernacular through which to view the void between American myth and exurban desperation. A central video work marks a collaboration with singer-songwriter Liam McCay, known under the alias Sign Crushes Motorist, who wrote and recorded an original score for the exhibition.