Michael Cusack


All of days
To November 7
Olsen Annex



‘Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness’ – Samuel Beckett


Urbino, 2020, enamel on masonite, 36 x 30 cm.


Quiet Time, 2020, enamel on masonite, 36 x 30 cm.


I Can't Make You Love Me, 2020, enamel on masonite, 36 x 30 cm.


Ampere, 2020, enamel on masonite, 51.5 x 44.5 cm.


‘...As a devotee of literary figure and fellow countryman Samuel Beckett, the Irish-born Cusack’s erasure action embodies Beckett’s frequent mandate of ‘less is more’. Reborn from this new energy, the paintings become framed with irregular edges, remodelled by hollows and marks and radically altered through the humble economy of artistic means’ excerpt Sharne Wolff