21 July 2010 at 6.30pm
We will be visiting the Modern Institute’s new gallery space on Osbourne Street, to discuss the work of Miami-based artist, Mark Handforth.
Mark’s practice is sculptural and often celebrates the materiality of the world around us, in the physical sense, while subtlety shifting our perception of these objects (street lights, candles, signs) through his own interventions. His current show focuses on a deck of cards, blowing up these familiar symbols to enlarged proportions. On the outside of the Gallery hangs a neon on the red sandstone wall – a Crying Moon – which embodies this playful displacement of the familiar.
The Modern Institute was established in 1998 as an artist project space, working closely with Glasgow-based and international artists. Today it represents 36 artists from Glasgow, Europe and the United States, with a programme of ten or so exhibitions per year as well as participating in international art fairs such as Basel (Switzerland), Armory (NY), Hong Kong and Miami (USA). Previously located in a red sandstone period building at 73 Robertson Street, the Modern Institute has now relocated to an old wash house in Osborne Street in the Trongate area of Glasgow.
18 February 2009 at 6.30pm
Join our SPIN host Alhena Katsof in a special opportunity to visit Toby Paterson’s studio.
Toby Paterson was born in Glasgow in 1974. He studied at Glasgow School of Art and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating from the former in 1995. In Glasgow, he is represented by The Modern Institute and in London, by Sutton Lane. Paterson won the 2002 Becks Futures Prize and received a Creative Scotland Award in 2006.
Recent projects include solo shows in The Hague and London, group exhibitions in San Francisco, Belgrade, Madrid and Middlesborough, and the commission of permanent works at Tramway in Glasgow, and at BBC Scotland’s new headquarters and on the campus of Warwick University. He is also developing work for the seven stations that constitute the Docklands Light Railways planned Stratford International Extension. Paterson’s interest in cities and their architecture is manifested throughout his work in the form of painting, sculpture and photography. He currently lives and works in Glasgow.
16 January 2008 at 6.30pm
Before The Modern Institute was set up in 1998, there were no commercial galleries in Glasgow representing the contemporary artists who were helping to make Glasgow one of the most interesting and dynamic contemporary art scenes in Europe. The Modern Institute’s contribution to this over the last ten years has been crucial, and they now represent many international and UK-based artists including Turner prize winners Simon Starling and Jeremy Deller, Toby Paterson, Victoria Morton, Jim Lambie, Monica Sosnowska and Martin Boyce.
Well have a look at the Spencer Sweeney exhibition and will talk to the gallery managers about, amongst other things, how someone might go about buying something from a gallery like The Modern Institute.
