The Art of Patrick Gallagher
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The name Pat Gallagher resonates with the archetype of all that is Irish in a man who simultaneously embodies the spirit of the leprechaun, the heart and stamina of the few benevolent gods, and the artistic hues of Beowulf’s celtic relatives. In a modern art gallery, a casual visitor might be tempted to compare Gallagher’s soft cubism to Picasso, but such an association incompletely addresses both the art’s sincerity and sometimes ironic humor boldly displayed by lines dark as dirt and colors well loved, scumbled like the rocks on the Irish coast, but never muted, awarded their own unique contrasts through juxtaposition with light and form. Gallagher’s works phenomenologically provide an intense emotional experience for any careful observer of art and enthusiastic practitioner of life. We are drawn in by an energy that is both modern and ancient.
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