Alan Uglow
| Alan Uglow | |
|---|---|
 Photo: Elena Alexander | |
| Born |
1941 Luton, UK |
| Died |
2011 New York City, US |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | Artist |
Alan Uglow (1941–2011) moved to New York City from London, England, in 1969. Called "a painter's painter" by Roberta Smith.[1] Uglow also created objects, sound and visual installations, and in the 1980s, played bass in the band Hard Labour. He died January 20, 2011, in Manhattan, at age sixty-nine, from complications related to lung cancer.
Career
United Kingdom
Alan Uglow attended Leicester College of Art, in his early teens. While a student there, he saw an exhibition titled, "The New American Painting," Tate Gallery, London, (1959), a show of American Abstract Expressionism, about which he later commented, "[At seventeen], I wasn’t sure I understood everything I was seeing, but I knew they would understand everything I was trying to do." After Leicester, Uglow went on to Central School, London, in painting and printmaking. After finishing art school, Uglow’s work was included in “Young Contemporaries” (London, 1960/64), “Bradford Spring Exhibition” (1963/64), Grabowski Gallery, (London, 1965), and “Contemporary British Painters,” (Lyon, France, 1966).
United States
Uglow visited New York for three weeks, in 1968, moving there permanently, in 1969. He soon met fellow painters Jake Berthot, Brice Marden, and Winston Roeth; in the early 1970s, Uglow and Roeth printed for Petersburg Press. In 1974, Uglow moved from his loft on Greene Street to one on the Bowery, where he lived and worked until his death in 2011*.
In 1975, Uglow's work was in the Whitney Biennial. The year before and the year after the Biennial, his work was included in group shows at Bykert Gallery, run by Klaus Kertess. After Kertess left Bykert, Uglow showed with Mary Boone in her opening group show (1978), and had his first one-person shows in New York (1978, '79). He later showed with Lorence-Monk Gallery, (1985-1990), and Stark Gallery (1993-2002). It was at Lorence-Monk that Uglow first exhibited his "low rider" paintings, as well as Signals, (1988), a four-panel piece, with sound, first shown in Amsterdam, as part of "Century '87." At Stark, Uglow showed another sound piece, his football-inspired, Coach's Bench. Beginning in 1992 and continuing throughout 2009, Uglow made a series of paintings, titled Standards. All are 7' x 6' (214 x 183 cm); all are installed on wooden blocks. In 2013, Uglow's work was shown posthumously in a solo exhibition at David Zwirner, curated by Bob NicNickas. In 2014, MIT List Visual Arts Center held an exhibition of his Standards and Portraits.
*In 1986 and 1992/93, Uglow lived in Cologne.
Europe
Solo and two-person exhibitions: Sweden: Galerie Nordenhake, (Malmö, 1983); Galerie Nordenhake, (Stockholm, 1987; 1991;1993); Ars Nova Galleri, (Gothenburg, 1994). Germany: Raum für Malerei, (Cologne, 1984; 1986); Galerie Rolf Ricke, (Cologne, 1987); Koelnischer Kunstverein, (Cologne, 1992); Galerie Schneiderei, (Cologne, 1992); Galerie Sophia Ungers, (Cologne, 1993; 1994, with Rémy Zaugg ), Galerie Anselm Dreher, (Berlin, 1995); Galerie Bela Jarzyk, (Cologne, 1996); Galerie Griedervonputtkammer, (Berlin, 2001); Galerie Nordenhake, (Berlin, 2006); Galerie Michael Sturm, (Stuttgart, 2006); Museum Haus Esters, (Krefeld, 2010); Museum Wiesbaden (2010); Bischoff Projects, (Frankfurt, 2013); Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, (Krefeld, 2016). Netherlands: Galerie Onrust, (Amsterdam, 1988; 1989; 1992; 1994; 1996; 2000; 2003; 2007; 2010); Gemeentemuseum (The Hague, 2004). Finland: Galerie d'Arte, (Helsinki, 1991, with Bernard Kirschenbaum): Denmark: Galleri Tommy Lund, (Odense, 1994, with Al Taylor; 1998, with Peter Holm). Iceland: Second Floor Exhibition Space (Reykjavik, 1994). Switzerland: Galerie Bob von Orsouw, (Zurich, 1996); Marc Jancou Gallery, (Geneva, 2014). Spain: Galeria Leyendecker (Tenerife, 1998, with Mark Dagley). Belgium: Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art (CCNOA), (Brussels, 2006).
Group exhibitions: Belgium: Galerie Charles Kriwin, (Brussels, 1975); Galerie Christine & Isy Brachot, (Brussels, 1990); Petra Bungert Projects, (Brussels, 1998); CCNOA - Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art (Brussels, 2005; 2006); Galerie Guy Ledune, (Brussels, 2009). Denmark: Galerie Norballe, (Copenhagen, 1983); Galleri Tommy Lund (Odense, 1993; 1994; 1997; 1998); Nils Staerk Contemporary Art (Copenhagen, 2008). Netherlands: Nooderkerk, (Amsterdam, 1987); Galerie Onrust, (Amsterdam, 1990; 1993; 1994; 1995; 2008); De Graansilo (Amsterdam, 1995); PS, (Amsterdam, 2001); Arti et Amicitiae (Amsterdam, 2007); Stedelijk Museum (Schiedam, 2008); Collection Lafrenz, Gemeentemuseum (The Hague, 2008); Germany: Galerie Rolf Ricke/Kunstverein, (Cologne, 1989); Galerie Sophia Ungers, (Cologne, 1993; 1994; 1995); Galerie Aurel Scheibler, (Cologne, 1995); Galerie Bela Jarzyk, (Cologne, 1995); Galerie Paal, (Munich, 1996); Sammlung Goetz, (Munich, 1996); Galerie Markus Richter, (Berlin, 2000); Niels Borch Jensen, (Berlin, 2000); Württembergerischer Kunstverein, (Stuttgart, 2002); Galerie S65, (Cologne, 2002); Kunstmuseum Bonn (2004); Neues Museum Weserberg, (Bremen, 2004); Kunstmuseum Bern, (2008), Museum Wiesbaden, (2008, 2009); Kunsthalle Bern, (2009); Galerie Ulrich Mueller, (Cologne, 2010); Hamish Morrison Gallery, (Berlin, 2013); Bischoff Projects, Frankurt, 2015); Galerie Anke Schmidt, (Cologne, 2016). France: Le Consortium, (Dijon, 1989); Concrete Art Space, (Mouans-Sartoux, 1990); Galerie Renos Xippas, (Paris, 1991); Château d’Orion, (Orion, 1991); Galerie Sud du Centre Georges Pompidou, (Paris, 1998); Le Magasin, CNAC - Centre National d'Art Contemporain, (Grenoble, 2009). Sweden: Galerie Nordenhake, (Stockholm, 1989); Finland: Persons-Lindell Gallery, (Helsinki, 1990): Switzerland: Galerie Pierre Huber, (Geneva, 1991); Galerie Bob van Orsouw, (Zürich, 1995, 1999); Art + Public, (Geneva, 1996); Helmhaus, (Zürich, 2002); Kunstverein St. Gallen, (2005); De Pury & Luxembourg (Zürich, 2007); Centre d'Art Neuchâtel (2010), Kunsthaus Grenchen (2012). Norway: Kunstnernes Hus, (Oslo, 2006). Liechtenstein: Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, (Vaduz, 2007).
References
- ↑ Smith, Roberta (February 2, 2011). "Alan Uglow, Abstract Painter, Dies at 69". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 10 February 2011. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
External links
- "A Tribute to Alan Uglow" The Brooklyn Rail (April 2011), by Medrie MacPhee, Stephen J. Morse, and Olivier Mosset
- Alan Uglow, catalogue 2010 Exhibition Museum Haus Lange and Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
- Alan Uglow (1941–2011) by Saul Ostrow BOMB Magazine 116, Summer 2011, EDITOR'S CHOICE