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INSIGHT: Week 5 | Luke Diiorio

Past viewing_room
15 - 21 July 2020
  • INSIGHT: WEEK 5 | LUKE DIIORIO

    15 - 21 July

     

  • INSIGHT IS A NEW ONLINE PLATFORM PRESENTED BY PIPPY HOULDSWORTH GALLERY, DEBUTING WORK BY A DIFFERENT ARTIST EACH WEEK. NEW WORK MADE DURING LOCKDOWN WILL BE HIGHLIGHTED ALONGSIDE A VIDEO STUDIO VISIT PRESENTED BY THE ARTIST. 

    INSIGHT runs alongside the main gallery programme

    Ming Smith: view here

  • INSIGHT: WEEK 5 | LUKE DIIORIO

  • Curved Paintings

    Functioning sculpturally and optically, the curved paintings respond both to the history of art and to perception of the physical world around us. Luke Diiorio builds upon the language of pictorial abstraction from the last century and, drawing further inspiration, looks back to the composite altarpieces of the Italian and Northern European Renaissance - structures that operate with multiple levels of significance. The curved shape of the paintings looks almost intuitively to the curvature of the earth and established representations of the horizon line in landscape painting.

  • Luke Diiorio, Untitled (cadmium red), 2020 Artworks

    Untitled (cadmium red)

    2020
    oil on canvas, over curved panel
    124.5 x 116.8 cm, 49 x 46 in
    $ 12,000.00 (ex tax)
  • Luke Diiorio, Untitled (Violet milk), 2020 Artworks

    Untitled (grey milk)

    2020
    oil on canvas over panel
    124.5 x 116.8 cm, 49 x 46 in
    Sold
     
  • Untitled (cadmium yellow), 2020
     

    Untitled (cadmium yellow)

    2020
    oil on canvas over curved panel
    124.5 x 116.8 cm, 49 x 46 in
    Sold
  • 'While Diiorio is far from being a modernist, temporally distant as he is from the tradition, he is nonetheless advancing considerations of the concreteness and fugitive nature of color and light in ways that feel both eminently relevant and tied to art history.' 

    Alex Bacon, The Brooklyn Rail, 2017

    • Luke Diiorio, Untitled (cadmium red), 2020
      Luke Diiorio, Untitled (cadmium red), 2020
    • Luke Diiorio, Untitled (cadmium red) 2, 2020
      Luke Diiorio, Untitled (cadmium red) 2, 2020
  • Diiorio's curved works abstract from the form of a traditional oil painting. The physical composition of each work - comprising individual curved wooden panels wrapped with canvas - bends, distorts, and repeats the idea of a regular, solid support. Stacked atop one another, the panels form a composition that activates movement: the work appears to multiply, mutate, and deconstruct even as it expands. Diiorio applies oils as though to a singular surface, painting each work with a colour gradient - a chromatic shift that is at times subtly perceptible and at other times dramatic. This gradient sets the work in motion, allowing Diiorio to present a contemporaneous, kinetic experience of colour.

  • 'WE HAVE THIS LANGUAGE OF MINIMALISM. HOW CAN WE WORK WITH IT? HOW DO WE INSERT IT IN POP CULTURE?...

    'WE HAVE THIS LANGUAGE OF MINIMALISM. HOW CAN WE WORK WITH IT? HOW DO WE INSERT IT IN POP CULTURE? HOW DO WE INSERT THAT INTO DIGITAL IMAGERY? HOW DO WE PLAY WITH IT AFTER YEARS OF HISTORY AND TALKING ABOUT IT?'

    Luke Diiorio, Interview Magazine, 2015

  • ‘In his work, Diiorio treats dichotomies and contradictions with a light hand. They are not problems to be solved but simply the state of things, to be accepted and even enjoyed.’

    Jennifer S. Li, Art in America, 2015

  • 'Diiorio is calling upon the reductive radicalism of minimal visual language. The works are the result of ‘where can I go from here’ once reduced to their fundamentals.'

    William Davey, this is tomorrow, 2015

  • About Luke Diiorio

    About Luke Diiorio

    Luke Diiorio (b. 1983, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) lives and works in Virginia. He received an MA from the Royal College of Art, London in 2013. Recent solo presentations include Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp (2019); Denny Dimin Gallery, New York (2019); Sunday-S Gallery, Copenhagen (2018); Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2017, 2015) and Anat Egbi, Los Angeles (2014). The artist's writings include, 'Thought's Medium', the introduction to Robert Motherwell: Early Paintings (Paul Kasmin Gallery, 2017). His work has been featured in publications including The Brooklyn Rail, Art in America, The International New York Times, this is tomorrow and Interview Magazine.

  • Press

    • The Brooklyn Rail

      The Brooklyn Rail

      June 2018

      Luke Diiorio, nine paintings. By Alex Bacon

    • Artsy

      Artsy

      22 March 2016

      The 20 Best Booths at Art Basel in Hong Kong

    • Artsy

      Artsy

      30 October 2015

      Tracing Frank Stella’s Disproportionate Influence on Contemporary Art

    • this is tomorrow

      this is tomorrow

      29 September 2015

      Luke Diiorio, Sunset Park. By William Davie

    • Interview Magazine

      Interview Magazine

      11 August 2015

      Artists at Work: Luke Diiorio. By Emily McDermott

    • Art in America

      Art in America

      12 March 2015

      Luke Diiorio. By Jennifer S. Li

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