Tag Archives: Andy Warhol

Peter Hujar

29 February 2008 at 6pm

Peter Hujar is an important American photographer of the 1970s and early 1980s, whose work describes New York at a time when the city was financially impoverished but artistically rich.

Hujar started his career on the fringes of fashion photography and is best known for his black and white portraits of the New York avant-garde. He photographed his friends and members of his extended community in NYC, ranging from Andy Warhol and Susan Sontag to downtown artists and drag performers. Hujar’s subjects also include nudes, animals and the night time streets of Downtown Manhattan. Hujar’s work received little recognition during his lifetime, but he was an important influence on artists such as Nan Goldin and Robert Mapplethorpe, among others.

Joining us will be Kirsten Lloyd, Artistic Programmer of Stills, who will help us gain insight into who Peter Hujar was and what he saw through the lens of his camera. She will also show us round the new facilities at the Gallery.

Gavin Turk

29 July 2004 at 6pm

Gavin Turk is Britart’s answer to Andy Warhol. He explores glamour and banality, glitz and abjection, by looking at notions of celebrity and subverting them with endless role-plays. In exactly the same vein he appears as a tramp, and insistently drags the detritus of our world into the gallery. Plastic cups, bin bags and abandoned sleeping bags are transformed into art works of uncertain status – they may be bronze but they look exactly like the unsavoury original . . .

We will be joined in this show of Turk’s new print series by curator and art critic John Calcutt, who has been an entertaining voice guiding us through the Britart/Scottish Art phenomenon over the last few years. As well as lecturing at Glasgow School of Art, writing regular articles and catalogue essays for books such as the survey of Scottish art, Here + Now, he recently curated an excellent exhibition at the CCA.