Advance and Recession

Advance and Recession by Stephen McKenna    Oil on Canvas 41x61cm (1993) ©




Stephen McKenna was born in London in 1939. He has lived and worked in various countries since the 1960s and has divided his time between Ireland and Italy since the 1980's. He has had major solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford in 1983; Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf in 1986; the Irish Museum of Modern Art in 1993; and Ca di Fra, Milan in 1999. A comprehensive retrospective of his work took place at the Hans und Sophie Tauber Arp Foundation, Bonn, Germany in 2000. He participated in 'Documenta 7' in 1982; 'Classical Spirit' at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and 'Falls the Shadow' at the Hayward Gallery, London, in 1986; 'Avant Garde of the '80s', Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art in 1987; and 'Dreams & Traditions', at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. in 1997. McKenna's work is represented in the collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Gallery, London, the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin and in many other collections, both private and public, world-wide. For further information see the Kerlin Gallery.

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