In this National Gallery of Ireland podcast, Caomhán Mac Con Iomaire is in conversation with Dr Brenda Moore-McCann, as they examine the life and work of the Irish artist Brian O’Doherty.
Dr Brenda Moore-McCann, Assistant Professor (Adjunct) at Trinity College Dublin, editor of Dear...Selected Letters from Brian O'Doherty from 1970s to 2018 (2018), and author of the first monograph, Brian O'Doherty/Patrick Ireland: Between Categories (2009), discusses O’Doherty's work in detail, offering art historical and personal contexts.
This podcast was produced on the occasion of the display of Brian O’Doherty works, including a series of prints created in collaboration with Stoney Road Press. This display is complementary to the Living with art: Picasso to
Celmins, A British Museum touring exhibition, 10 May – 7 June 2021.
Several of Brian O'Doherty's works, including this self-portrait, can be seen as part of the National Gallery of Ireland's summer exhibition, New Perspectives, Acquisitions 2011-2020: https://www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/exhibitions/new-acquisitions-2010-2020
A full transcript of this podcast is available here: https://www.nationalgallery.ie/sites/default/files/2021-05/brian-odoherty-podcast-transcript-2.pdf
Image: Brian O'Doherty, Portrait of the Artist as a Naked Young Man, 1953.
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