Where are the quirky distinctive voices of painters like Rose Wylie and Chantal Joffe, the wonderful portraitists like Catherine Goodman and if you make the strange choice to include one Giacometti, why not open the doors fully to
other figurative sculptors?
Is it any wonder, then, that many younger American painters and
sculptors have long abandoned the bygone absolutisms of Minimalism on one hand and Hyper - Realism on the
other and are making works today that hover in a hard to define space that might be called Abstract Figuration or
Figurative Abstraction?»
For
other important Irish
sculptors, read about the neo-classical John Hogan, the Anglo - Irish John Henry Foley, the Romantic Nationalist Oliver Sheppard, the nationalist realist Albert Power, the small - scale sculptress Rosamund Praeger, the traditional stone
sculptor Seamus Murphy, the Polish - Irish sculptress Alexandra Wejchert, the contemporary steel
sculptor Conor Fallon, the bird artist Oisin Kelly, the public artist Eamonn O'Doherty and the
figurative sculptor Rowan Gillespie.