NOW AFTER ALL THOSE THINGS YOU TOLD ME. 2006 (1965). oil on linen

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SOMETHING I’VE NEVER HAD. 2008 (1967). Oil on linen

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AFTER THE TEARDROPS START. 2009 (1966). oil on linen
I LIVED FOR AN HOUR. 2008 (1967). oil on linen

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I CRIED FOR YOU. 2008 (1967). oil on linen

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DAVID MCDERMOTT & PETER MCGOUGH explore different periods, in their way of life as well as in their art, and have chosen their favourite period as being somewhere between the second half of the 19th Century and the 1960’s. From a townhouse in the East Village they created their art by candlelight, lived without modern appliances and traveled through Manhattan on horseback complete with top hats and the finest couture from nearly a century ago.

Whatever the period embodied in their pictorial, photographic and sculptural work, DAVID MCDERMOTT & PETER MCGOUGH use scrupulous, meticulous reproductions of period objects and clothing to take us off on their journey in time, making their creations as authentic as possible.

The keys to their inspiration and so specific way of thinking may perhaps be found in their recent paintings, which copy the iconography of the Hollywood films noirs and the comics of the 1960’s, the sequential nature of which they fix in order to show different moments in a single painting.