Ava McDonough

House of Seiko is pleased to present Eternal Dance of Circles, Ava McDonough’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.

The exhibition takes its title from a passage in Rabindranath Tagore’s Fireflies: “The centre is still and silent in the heart / of an eternal dance of circles.” McDonough encountered the poem through its inclusion in a book devoted to the geometry of flowers. Tagore’s image of stillness held within continuous motion offers an entry into paintings shaped by repetition, intuition, and change.

McDonough begins with closely observed natural forms whose identities become elusive through abstraction. A leaf, flower, wing, or stretch of moss is enlarged until it begins to dissolve. In place of conventional appearance, she offers an intimate and decontextualized encounter in which color, light, and texture assume their own significance and a secret underlying structure is revealed.