FICTIONAL FICTION |SOLO EXHIBITION |GREEN ON RED GALLERY
Thursday 9th July to 4th September 2026
John Cronin FICTIONAL FICTION - CANDY CLOUD SERF 4'x5' 122x152cm 2026 oil on canvas
John Cronin Fictional Fictions ( Behavioural Harvest ) 2026 Oil on canvas on board 122 x 150 cm
John Cronin
FICTIONAL FICTIONS
Opening : Thursday 9 July 6 - 8 pm
Exhibition dates : 9 July - 4 September 2026
Green On Red Gallery Park Lane Spencer Dock Dublin 1
Green On Red Gallery Pakenham House Park Lane Spencer Dock Dublin 1 D01 Y821
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FICTIONAL FICTIONS
Green On Red Gallery is very proud to announce Fictional Fictions, a solo exhibition of John Cronin's new oil paintings which continue the grapple with AI, truth and fiction.
He says :
" These are my Alt Genre Paintings, mechanical, gestural and organic celebrations and abuses of paint. Morphing, pathologising, and destructive elements seek out and illuminate what has gone before.
Elements break down, both compositionally and in their very materiality – once-luscious oil paint is cracked, dried and exhausted and vies with free-flowing organic rivers and mists of paint, at the same time revealing the scar-tissue which is the underpainting. These paintings are chaotic and confusing reflecting our technological age of non-linear warfare and algorithms. They are echo chambers of narratives drifting farther from the truth, a truth that has not been forgotten, just outvoted. FICTIONAL FICTION. "
John Cronin, 2026
John Cronin is one of Ireland’s leading and most established painters. He has been exhibiting in Ireland and internationally since the late 1980s.
His ZXX ( 2016 ) paintings were as much a metaphor for the hidden, untranslatable layers of his often monumental abstract oil on aluminium paintings as they were a comment on our new open-source world. ZXX was the title of his large solo RHA exhibition in 2016. His Standard Deviation ( 2013 ) 122 x 549cm triptych was featured in the RHA's In And Of Itself - Abstraction in the Age of Images ( 2022 ) survey exhibition of Irish abstraction, curated by Patrick Murphy.
While his work’s primary concern is abstract painting in the age of artificial intelligence, the titles of his exhibitions often reflect a desire to add a thematic twist to each new body of work. Through a diverse range of exhibitions, including Standard Deviation, Augmented Reality, MHz, ZXX up to Artificial Bee Colony in 2024, we have seen him continually extend the language of his practice.
Cronin has gleaned praise from many quarters most notably from the eminent New York Art Critic Donald Kuspit, who says Cronin ‘ puts the “juice” back into modernist painting, after Greenberg’s post-painterly theory squeezed it out. ’
" Modernist Painting Redivivus - John Cronin's Abstractions " : Donald Kuspit in Palinode, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, 2005.
For further information, please contact Gallery Director Jerome O Drisceoil at 087 2454282 or info@greenonredgallery.com
John Cronin Fictional Fictions ( Counter Truth ) 2026 Oil on canvas 110 x 108 cm
John Cronin - Fictional Fiction -Counter Truth 2026 oil on canvas 3'6"x3'7" 110x108cm
Events during the exhibition to be announced
John Cronin NEW ORIGINALS I - IV 2026 Oil on canvas 41 x 31 x 5cm
ART EVOLVE | HALL 4, RDS, DUBLIN 2026
Friday 27th – Sunday 29th March 2026
FICTIONAL FICTION 4 | ASSIGNED VALUES
2025 OIL ON ALUMINIUM 2'X4' 60X120CM
NEW WORK NEW ARTISTS |GREEN ON RED GALLERY
featuring Fictional Fiction - Digital Nerve System 2025 oil on aluminium 2'x4' 60x120cm
OPENING RECEPTION : THURSDAY, 18 December 2025-13 February 2026
FICTIONAL FICTION - DIGITAL NERVE SYSTEM
2025 OIL ON ALUMINIUM 2'X4' 60X120CM
ART EVOLVE | HALL 4, RDS, DUBLIN 2025
Friday 4th – Sunday 6th april 2025
NIALL MACMONAGLE | SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER | REVIEW SECTION|26 MAY 2024
ART: WHAT LIES BENEATH | JOHN CRONIN - ARTIFICIAL BEE COLONY 5, AUTOMATED BIAS
ART DÜSSELDORF APRIL 12 TO 14, VIP PREVIEW 11, 2024, AT AREAL BÖHLER, DÜSSELDORF.
JOHN CRONIN ARTIFICIAL BEE COLONY | GREEN ON RED GALLERY
EXHIBITING WITH SCOTT LYALL | NIAMH McCANN | NIL YALTER
Art Düsseldorf 2024
ARTIFICIAL BEE COLONY 2
2023 OIL ON CANVAS 6'X4' 182X122CM
SOLO EXHIBITION | ARTIFICIAL BEE COLONY | GREEN ON RED GALLERY MARCH 2024
OPENING RECEPTION : THURSDAY,14th march - 18:00 - 20:00 HRS
DATES : - 15th march - 3rd may 2024
GALLERY OPEN : MONDAY - FRIDAY 10:00 - 18:00 HRS - SATURDAY AND SUNDAY BY APPOINTMENT
15TH MARCH - 3RD MAY 2024
LOVERS | GROUP EXHIBITION|GREEN ON RED GALLERY
OPENING RECEPTION : THURSDAY, 15TH FEBRUARY 2024 - 18:00 - 20:00 HRS
DATES : THURSDAY, 15th february - FRIDAY, 8TH MARCH 2024
FEATURED IN
IN AND OF ITSELF | ABSTRACTION IN THE AGE OF IMAGES
ROYAL HIBERNIAN ACADEMY
'STANDARD DEVIATION' 4
2013|4'X18' 122X549CM OIL ON ALUMINIUM
18 NOVEMBER 2022 TO 29 JANUARY 2023
DRAWING IT OUT | GROUP EXHIBITION | GREEN ON RED GALLERY
OPENING RECEPTION : THURSDAY, 13TH JULY 2023 - 18:00 - 20:00 HRS
DATES : THURSDAY, 13TH JULY - FRIDAY, 25TH AUGUST 2023
GALLERY OPEN : MONDAY - FRIDAY 10:00 - 18:00 HRS - SATURDAY AND SUNDAY BY APPOINTMENT
ANNEX Kirstin Arndt Alan Butler John Cronin Damien Flood Mark Joyce Arno Kramer
Caroline McCarthy Niamh McCann Fergus Martin Peter Piller Bridget Riley Nigel Rolfe
is the title of Green On Red Gallery's summer 2023 exhibition featuring new and recent work by gallery and invited artists in multiple media. The exhibition opens on Thursday, 13 July and runs to the end of August. While the title suggests the medium of drawing - the root and beginning of many artists' practices - it also can have nothing to with works on paper or even work that is hand-wrought. The viewer is invited to ' work it out ' to arrive at a clear grasp of the painting, photograph, drawing or installation in front of them. Typically in Drawing it Out the viewing is amplified and extended in a multitude of ways.
13th July - 25th August 2023
NEW HORIZONS | GROUP EXHIBITION|GREEN ON RED GALLERY
John Aiken Kirstin Arndt Alan Butler John Cronin Mary FitzGerald Damien Flood Mark Joyce Arno Kramer Caroline McCarthy Ronan McCrea Fergus Martin David OReilly Hazel O'Sullivan Aoife Shanahan Nigel Rolfe Xavier Theunis
2 December 2022 - 23 February 2023
VIENNA CONTEMPORARY 2020 | MARX-HALLE, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
Thursday, September 24, 2020
Sunday, September 27, 2020
The gallery is proud to exhibit work for the first time in Vienna of artists John Cronin, Damien Flood, Mark Joyce, Niamh McCann, Ronan McCrea, David O'Reilly and Aoife Shanahan
JOHN CRONIN | VOLTA NY
TEN YEARS OF SOLO FOCUS Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Sunday, March 5, 2017
Green On Red Gallery at VOLTA NY
Booth A01
March 1 - 5, 2017
Pier 90, New York
