CYPHER THE PANIC ARTIST WEBSITE - WWW.THEPANICARTIST.COM
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Cypher - The Panic Artist Website - www.thepanicartist.com - Open-
minded Over 18's Only!
My email - cyp...@thepanicartist.com
Hi There Everyone,
I just want to introduce you to my work
which is featured on my large website - www.thepanicartist.com. I am a
37 year old Irish Expressionist/Realist Painter and Writer living and
working in Dublin, Ireland. My work is a frank diary of my life. In my
controversial paintings I explore the nature of identity, truth,
madness, transgression, isolation and male voyeuristic sexuality. I
have had five solo exhibition in Dublin and sold over e38,850 worth of
art. My work is in private collections in Ireland, Britian and
America.
I have painted over 2,400 paintings (acrylics, watercolors, oils,
pastels or collages) and created over 2,300 finished drawings (pencil,
Indian ink, coloured pencil, conte or charcoal). My work has been
influenced by - Pablo Picasso, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel,
Vincent Van Gogh, Richard Gerstl, Egon Schiele and Lucian Freud.
By now I have produced the largest and most extreme body of
heterosexual erotic drawings, pornographic paintings and tortured male
nudes in Irish art history. So I am an artist you will either love or
hate. My early nude-self-portraits and pornographic canvases were an
act of rebellion against Irish Republican censorship and Catholic
dictates of Ireland in the early 1990's. However I have also painted
many beautiful landscapes, female portraits, female nudes,
abstractions and even still-life's. I deliberately work in a number of
styles and a variety of mediums - since I thrive on experimentation.
Most of my paintings are executed on Arches or Fabriano 300lb
watercolor paper - and are small to medium scale.
Since late 2005 I have posted weekly blogs (from an Outsiders
perspective) on the Irish art world, reviews of exhibitions and
biographies of great or underrated and neglected Artists.
You Can Check Out My Dublin Art Blog At -
http://thepanicartist.livejournal.com/
I have been painting seriously since the age of 10 when I vowed to
become an artist. I left school at 16 in order to pursue my art full
time. At the age of 18 without any scholastic qualifications, I was
accepted into Dun Laoghire College of Art and Design on the basis of
exceptional talent. But at the time I did not find Art College suited
my very personal approach to art - I was expelled after only a year.
However from 1992-2004 I have attended many life-drawing and life-
painting classes in the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.
In the late 1980's, I fell under the spell of Picasso, buying and
meticulously annotating John Richardson's famous biography. I set
myself the seemingly impossible task of equalling the master's
prolific output, accumulating canvases, collages assemblages and works
on paper, and keeping meticulous records and diaries. By 1990, my
distinctive style was beginning to emerge: it owed something to
Picasso, and to the Neo-Expressionist movement - which had hit New
York in the early 1980's. But my latter-day hero, the graffiti artist
Jean-Michel Basquiat - was also clearly in evidence.
In many of my works I used Danish, American and German pornographic
magazines and videos as source material; words were added, often
expressing a combination of attraction and revulsion. My vision of sex
is shameful, sinful and nihilistic.
Much of my early work dealt with the problematic relationship of the
modern male to the emancipated female. Specifically, it expressed what
men actually felt about sexual desire, as opposed to what they claimed
to feel. In so doing, my work was often brutally frank about the
baseness of the male agenda, and the vampiric aspect to the pleasure-
seeking motives of both genders. In addition, I distanced myself from
other artists using sexual imagery like - Robert Mapplethorpe, Jeff
Koons, Andres Sorano, Thomas Ruff, or John Curran - in that I was
clearly involved and seduced, not distanced and ironic.
In 1991, I suffered my first mental breakdown - I attempted suicide
nine times between 1991 and 1994. This lead to three incarcerations in
St. Ita's mental hospital Portrane Co. Dublin. I was diagnosed with a
Borderline Personality Disorder and depression. However, slowly but
surely, thanks to many friends and lovers I gained some distance from
my illness.
It was only in 1994, that I began to show my work to galleries in
Dublin after being cajoled to do so by the Irish Times art critic Mic
Moroney. However my work was angrily rejected - by one Dublin and
Irish gallery after another. Art dealers, disturbed by my hardcore
sexual imagery, and the no-holds-barred frankness of my treatment,
rejected my work - often with great scorn and hostility. However in
1994 - I had my first solo show in the Head Gallery in the Ormond
Multi-Media Centre in Dublin.
In 1994 I began writing 'The Panic Texts' a 298 pp collection of my
writings on art and insanity and 'The Panic Artist' - my 709 pp
autobiography, which many have claimed are better than my art.
Despite my rejections I continued to paint. In 1996 the art critic and
television personality John Farrell, secured my first major exhibition
in the Anarchist bookshop 'The Garden of Delights' in Christchurch,
Dublin. That was when I received my first newspaper review by Mebh
Ruane in The Sunday Times. But I continued to be rejected by every
official art gallery in Dublin.
Then in 2000 I was discovered by the curator Paul O'Kelly of the Oisin
Gallery on Westland Row, Dublin - who spent his whole months wages
buying eleven of my drawings it was my first sale. Later in the year I
had my first retrospective of 99 of my works at the Oisin Gallery in
an show titled 'Twenty-Years of Panic Art.' The catalogue was the most
expensive the Oisin Gallery had ever made and was written by Paul
O'Kelly, myself and the head of the Dublin Rape Crisis centre Olive
Braiden. My autobiographical and highly explicit, retrospective
provoked alarm, admiration and bafflement in equal measure. I was
reviewed scathingly in every Irish newspaper, featured on Irish news
but I also sold over e37, 000 worth of art.
But from that moment on - relations with the Oisin Gallery plummeted
along with my five seconds of fame. They hated my new work and blocked
every submission I made. Then late in 2001 - I conceived the idea of
installing my entire bedroom and living room in the huge Oisin Gallery
- and living there night and day for five days painting and
interacting with the gallery goers. They loved the idea. 'Five Day
Wonder' - my last exhibition was staged in March 2002. It was a sales
disaster!
Within two years (after more submissions to the Oisin Gallery were
savagely shot down), I split with the gallery in acrimony. Despite my
brief success with the Oisin Gallery - I continue to be rejected at
every turn.
By now I have collected over 91 letters of rejection from galleries,
museums and agents in Ireland and abroad. In fact since the Oisin
Gallery turned their back on me - every single art gallery in Dublin
has now rejected my art.
I am persona-non-grata in the Irish art world. My work has been called
sexist, ugly, obscene, debased, adolescent, immature, post-graduate
and technically inept. But it has also been called ground-breaking,
courageous, explosive and even beautiful.
I no longer hold any delusions about the quality of my work. I am
little better than a fourth-rate painter in world terms - but I also
feel I have deserved a fairer shot at exhibiting than I have been
given.
Please check out my website and make up your own mind on an art which
is impossible to show anywhere in the real world. My website contains
over 570 of my best paintings and drawings from January 1987 - July
2007. It also has a detailed introduction to my work, an extensive
outline biography (both written by myself), and a collection of Irish
newspaper reviews and writings on my art.
Warning My Website Contains Many Images Of A Sexually Explicit Nature
- You May find Offensive. My Website Is For Over 18's Only.
Website - www.thepanicartist.com Cypher / The Panic Artist.
I welcome all feed-back and try my best to reply to everyone who
emails me.
My email - cyp...@thepanicartist.com
My Very Best To You All!
Cypher - The Panic Artist
Cypher - The Panic Artist Website - www.thepanicartist.com - Open-
minded Over 18's Only!
minded Over 18's Only!
My email - cyp...@thepanicartist.com
Hi There Everyone,
I just want to introduce you to my work
which is featured on my large website - www.thepanicartist.com. I am a
37 year old Irish Expressionist/Realist Painter and Writer living and
working in Dublin, Ireland. My work is a frank diary of my life. In my
controversial paintings I explore the nature of identity, truth,
madness, transgression, isolation and male voyeuristic sexuality. I
have had five solo exhibition in Dublin and sold over e38,850 worth of
art. My work is in private collections in Ireland, Britian and
America.
I have painted over 2,400 paintings (acrylics, watercolors, oils,
pastels or collages) and created over 2,300 finished drawings (pencil,
Indian ink, coloured pencil, conte or charcoal). My work has been
influenced by - Pablo Picasso, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel,
Vincent Van Gogh, Richard Gerstl, Egon Schiele and Lucian Freud.
By now I have produced the largest and most extreme body of
heterosexual erotic drawings, pornographic paintings and tortured male
nudes in Irish art history. So I am an artist you will either love or
hate. My early nude-self-portraits and pornographic canvases were an
act of rebellion against Irish Republican censorship and Catholic
dictates of Ireland in the early 1990's. However I have also painted
many beautiful landscapes, female portraits, female nudes,
abstractions and even still-life's. I deliberately work in a number of
styles and a variety of mediums - since I thrive on experimentation.
Most of my paintings are executed on Arches or Fabriano 300lb
watercolor paper - and are small to medium scale.
Since late 2005 I have posted weekly blogs (from an Outsiders
perspective) on the Irish art world, reviews of exhibitions and
biographies of great or underrated and neglected Artists.
You Can Check Out My Dublin Art Blog At -
http://thepanicartist.livejournal.com/
I have been painting seriously since the age of 10 when I vowed to
become an artist. I left school at 16 in order to pursue my art full
time. At the age of 18 without any scholastic qualifications, I was
accepted into Dun Laoghire College of Art and Design on the basis of
exceptional talent. But at the time I did not find Art College suited
my very personal approach to art - I was expelled after only a year.
However from 1992-2004 I have attended many life-drawing and life-
painting classes in the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.
In the late 1980's, I fell under the spell of Picasso, buying and
meticulously annotating John Richardson's famous biography. I set
myself the seemingly impossible task of equalling the master's
prolific output, accumulating canvases, collages assemblages and works
on paper, and keeping meticulous records and diaries. By 1990, my
distinctive style was beginning to emerge: it owed something to
Picasso, and to the Neo-Expressionist movement - which had hit New
York in the early 1980's. But my latter-day hero, the graffiti artist
Jean-Michel Basquiat - was also clearly in evidence.
In many of my works I used Danish, American and German pornographic
magazines and videos as source material; words were added, often
expressing a combination of attraction and revulsion. My vision of sex
is shameful, sinful and nihilistic.
Much of my early work dealt with the problematic relationship of the
modern male to the emancipated female. Specifically, it expressed what
men actually felt about sexual desire, as opposed to what they claimed
to feel. In so doing, my work was often brutally frank about the
baseness of the male agenda, and the vampiric aspect to the pleasure-
seeking motives of both genders. In addition, I distanced myself from
other artists using sexual imagery like - Robert Mapplethorpe, Jeff
Koons, Andres Sorano, Thomas Ruff, or John Curran - in that I was
clearly involved and seduced, not distanced and ironic.
In 1991, I suffered my first mental breakdown - I attempted suicide
nine times between 1991 and 1994. This lead to three incarcerations in
St. Ita's mental hospital Portrane Co. Dublin. I was diagnosed with a
Borderline Personality Disorder and depression. However, slowly but
surely, thanks to many friends and lovers I gained some distance from
my illness.
It was only in 1994, that I began to show my work to galleries in
Dublin after being cajoled to do so by the Irish Times art critic Mic
Moroney. However my work was angrily rejected - by one Dublin and
Irish gallery after another. Art dealers, disturbed by my hardcore
sexual imagery, and the no-holds-barred frankness of my treatment,
rejected my work - often with great scorn and hostility. However in
1994 - I had my first solo show in the Head Gallery in the Ormond
Multi-Media Centre in Dublin.
In 1994 I began writing 'The Panic Texts' a 298 pp collection of my
writings on art and insanity and 'The Panic Artist' - my 709 pp
autobiography, which many have claimed are better than my art.
Despite my rejections I continued to paint. In 1996 the art critic and
television personality John Farrell, secured my first major exhibition
in the Anarchist bookshop 'The Garden of Delights' in Christchurch,
Dublin. That was when I received my first newspaper review by Mebh
Ruane in The Sunday Times. But I continued to be rejected by every
official art gallery in Dublin.
Then in 2000 I was discovered by the curator Paul O'Kelly of the Oisin
Gallery on Westland Row, Dublin - who spent his whole months wages
buying eleven of my drawings it was my first sale. Later in the year I
had my first retrospective of 99 of my works at the Oisin Gallery in
an show titled 'Twenty-Years of Panic Art.' The catalogue was the most
expensive the Oisin Gallery had ever made and was written by Paul
O'Kelly, myself and the head of the Dublin Rape Crisis centre Olive
Braiden. My autobiographical and highly explicit, retrospective
provoked alarm, admiration and bafflement in equal measure. I was
reviewed scathingly in every Irish newspaper, featured on Irish news
but I also sold over e37, 000 worth of art.
But from that moment on - relations with the Oisin Gallery plummeted
along with my five seconds of fame. They hated my new work and blocked
every submission I made. Then late in 2001 - I conceived the idea of
installing my entire bedroom and living room in the huge Oisin Gallery
- and living there night and day for five days painting and
interacting with the gallery goers. They loved the idea. 'Five Day
Wonder' - my last exhibition was staged in March 2002. It was a sales
disaster!
Within two years (after more submissions to the Oisin Gallery were
savagely shot down), I split with the gallery in acrimony. Despite my
brief success with the Oisin Gallery - I continue to be rejected at
every turn.
By now I have collected over 91 letters of rejection from galleries,
museums and agents in Ireland and abroad. In fact since the Oisin
Gallery turned their back on me - every single art gallery in Dublin
has now rejected my art.
I am persona-non-grata in the Irish art world. My work has been called
sexist, ugly, obscene, debased, adolescent, immature, post-graduate
and technically inept. But it has also been called ground-breaking,
courageous, explosive and even beautiful.
I no longer hold any delusions about the quality of my work. I am
little better than a fourth-rate painter in world terms - but I also
feel I have deserved a fairer shot at exhibiting than I have been
given.
Please check out my website and make up your own mind on an art which
is impossible to show anywhere in the real world. My website contains
over 570 of my best paintings and drawings from January 1987 - July
2007. It also has a detailed introduction to my work, an extensive
outline biography (both written by myself), and a collection of Irish
newspaper reviews and writings on my art.
Warning My Website Contains Many Images Of A Sexually Explicit Nature
- You May find Offensive. My Website Is For Over 18's Only.
Website - www.thepanicartist.com Cypher / The Panic Artist.
I welcome all feed-back and try my best to reply to everyone who
emails me.
My email - cyp...@thepanicartist.com
My Very Best To You All!
Cypher - The Panic Artist
Cypher - The Panic Artist Website - www.thepanicartist.com - Open-
minded Over 18's Only!
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