Siobhan McBride: Strong Winds May Exist

November 30, 2012–January 5, 2013

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Now Featuring Siobhan McBride

Siobhan McBride’s paintings catch nondescript environments in moments that seem to be a pause, like a breath of air right before or after the action happens. But they’re noting like snapshots, as horizons peel back, walls fade away and strange light illuminates the scene. Instead, it is McBride’s process that seems to build this sense […]

A Sense of Possibility

Lauren Tresp, spokesperson at the Delgado Street gallery Eight Modern, has described artist Siobhan McBride’s gouache paintings as having an enigmatic potentiality. “Like a deep breath before a cataclysmic moment, or the sight of a storm on the horizon, McBride’s gouache paintings are pregnant with wonder and introspection,” she wrote in a press release […]

Siobhan McBride: Strong Winds May Exist

Eight Modern is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, Siobhan McBride: Strong Winds May Exist. Like a deep breath before a cataclysmic moment, or the sight of a storm on the horizon, McBride’s gouache paintings are pregnant with wonder and introspection. Though her compositions are unpopulated by figures, the potential of their presence is […]

Art in Review: Siobhan McBride: Strong Winds May Exist

Imagine seeing moments from different realities in a single picture. Or think of snippets of memories pieced together to create peculiar juxtapositions of mundane objects situated in seemingly normal surroundings. Dream imagery? This is what comes to mind looking at Siobhan McBride’s gouache paintings in Strong Winds May Exist, her inaugural solo exhibit at […]

Siobhan McBride

Siobhan McBride makes dreamy paintings. Not heartthrob-dreamy — although some of them are — but rather “am-I-awake?”-dreamy. It’s not always obvious what’s going on in “Strong Winds May Exist.” Like the show’s title, the works themselves occupy an unpredictable, edgy place between sentient and subconscious activity. The couple dozen paintings on display are uniformly […]

THE Magazine – Siobhan McBride: Strong Winds May Exist

When we’re inside, we’re outside When it’s night, it’s day. And wherever Siobhan McBride takes us—underwater, into a blizzard, inside an aquarium, high above the earth—she gives us gorgeous light. The exhibition of her work at Eight Modern presents twenty-two of McBride’s blended scenes from 2010 to 2012, all created in gouache on paper on […]

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