31 March 2022
This month we are visiting New Arrivals: from Salvador Dalí to Jenny Saville at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Joining us for the evening will be Emma Gillespie. Emma has worked in a number of roles at the National Galleries of Scotland since 2014 and was appointed Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art in 2019.
New Arrivals presents a fascinating showcase of the most recent acquisitions at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. Featuring over 100 works of art, many of which are being shown here for the first time since they entered the collection, and spanning 110 years of art-making, the show offers a stunning range of modern and contemporary work including painting, sculptures, films and more.
Exhibition highlights include pieces by many historical and contemporary greats: Marc Chagall (the first painting by him to join a public collection in Scotland), Damien Hirst, Wangechi Mutu, Pablo Picasso, Bridget Riley, Jenny Saville, and Alberta Whittle, amongst many others. The show also spotlights a number of significant additions to National Galleries of Scotland’s world-renowned Surrealist collection, notably several works by female Surrealists, including Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning.
15 October 2008 at 6.30pm
Join the curators of Washington Garcia and our Spin host Alhena Katsof to discuss Grier Edmundson‘s first solo exhibition in Glasgow.
Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, Edmundson’s luscious and articulately rendered paintings are an examination of society through the juxtaposition of appropriated images. For his solo exhibition Progress! Progress?, Edmundson presents a series of prints, drawings and paintings that move seamlessly between abstraction and portraiture. These new works gleam from a rich source of cultural references that invoke thoughtful questions about visual and social history.
Edmundson is a graduate from the Masters program at the Glasgow School of Art. Has recently exhibited at Power House in Memphis (solo), Galerie Art Concept in Paris, A.Vermin’s installation at Glasgow International and has an upcoming solo exhibition at fourteen30 Gallery in Portland, Oregon.
Washington Garcia is an independent, artist-run gallery based in Glasgow. The gallery’s focus is on presenting high-quality work by mid-career and established artists who may not currently have a profile within the city of Glasgow. Washington Garcia operates with a Committee of Directors, all of whom are practicing artists.
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.
Grayson Perry I Smash Hits
This month join us for this year’s summer blockbuster, Grayson Perry| Smash Hits where we will be joined by the exhibition’s curator, Patrick Elliot.
The biggest ever exhibition of Sir Grayson Perry’s work, covering his 40-year career. Perry has gone from taking pottery evening classes to winning the Turner Prize, presenting television programmes on Channel 4 and writing acclaimed books. Pottery allowed him the opportunity to indulge his fascination with sex, Punk, and counterculture, amongst other things, in the most unlikely and polite of artforms. Today he is one of Britain’s most celebrated artists and cultural figures.
Popular and provocative, Perry makes art that deals with difficult and complex ideas in an accessible and often funny way. He loves taking on big issues that are universally human: masculinity, sexuality, class, religion, politics and more. On view will be subversive pots, brilliantly intricate prints, elaborate sculptures, and huge, captivating tapestries – all imbued with Perry’s sharp wit and social commentary. Working with traditional artforms, Perry addresses the controversial issues of our times.