THE Green on Red Gallery is opening a new space on Lombard Street tonight and when we visited earlier in the week, all around were speckles, seas and oceans of that ultimate symbol of the Modernist gallery experience whitewash.
What will hang on this prairie of white? One of the primary attractions of the larger space, proprieter Jerome O'Drisceoil suggests, is that it will be possible to display "corporate sized" works, big art intended not for private homes, but for institutional buyers.
The first artist to benefit from the gallery's larger space is Fergus Feehily, a painter who last year showed in the same gallery's Mostly Monockrome show. In keeping with the retro hints of the gallery, Feehily's works are unabashedly painterly, mostly monochromes, on heavy, sculptural stretchers. Shows planned for the future include an exhibition of Brigit Riley works dating from the 1980s onwards, and a group show of work by British and Irish photographers. The Feehily show will use both the old Fitzwilliam Square gallery and the new one, and O'Drisceoil intends to follow this trend for later shows, possibly gearing the old space towards print work.