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Cyrille Conan, Marvailh (Story), acrylic on canvas
Cyrille Conan, Graverezh (Graphisme), acrylic and collage on canvas
Cyrille Conan was born in 1973 and grew up in Queens, New York. Conan’s parents immigrated from France, and as a first generation American he is bilingual, holds dual citizenship, and identifies as both French and American. This duality is apparent in his artwork. The graphic nature and grit of Conan’s work derives from growing up in New York City in the ‘70s and ‘80s. A love of nature and natural forms distilled from his Celtic/Breton culture have transformed into a minimal, organic, geometrical abstraction.
Conan has been developing a vocabulary of mark making, collage and textures to allow for his paintings to come into being as honestly and intuitively as possible. Each layer informs and dictates the final composition until he finds a visual balance of form, color and repetition. Visual balance is achieved through time spent manually altering the surface until his intuition reveals the final image. Everything is handmade.
Read more about Conan’s background and see his other available work here.