Visual Arts

Unapproved Roads: Stephen McGinn

Exhibition and artist talk

Details

FREE
Date(s)

Jan 29, 2020 – May 29, 2020

Contact

Box Office

888-616-0274
boxoffice@irishartscenter.org

Phone hours:
10am-6pm, Monday-Friday

In person:
Opens 60 minutes before the performance on show days


Location

Irish Arts Center
553 W 51st Street
New York, New York 10019

Overview

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A remarkably candid exhibition of eight 24"x20" hand-printed photographs that captures the geographic divide between Northern Ireland and the Republic.

Stephen McGinn, son of a retired customs officer who patrolled the unapproved roads, returned to Northern Ireland in 2019 to document the Armagh borderland of his childhood. He did so without agenda of persuasion or nostalgia, but simply as he found it: empty and dormant, enduringly ordinary in spite of its extraordinary history and precarious position in the fractured Brexit landscape.



Stephen McGinn was born and raised in Ireland and moved to London at age 19 to pursue a career in photography. Now based in Brooklyn, McGinn works primarily in still life and beauty.



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