Entwistle
Alan
Michael
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Alan
Michael
8 March - 13 April 2002
Preview: Thursday 7 March, 6 8 pm
Entwistle
6 Cork St
London W1S 3EE
Tuesday to Saturday 10.00-17.30
contact: Darren Flook
E: darren@entwistle.net
T: +44 (0)20 7734 6440
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Alan Michael is a young Glasgow--based artist who creates obsessive and
sexually charged drawings and paintings that layer reference points and
styles. This will be Michaels first solo exhibition in London having
developed a strong reputation in Scotland for his exhibitions at DCA,
Tramway and Transmission.
Michaels work combines altered characters and settings from art and
from real life to explore ideas of what constructs an individual
character and the possible construction of ideal or imagined peer
groups. For this exhibition Alan Michael is presenting a new group of
small paintings that repeat, change and re-structure images that are
sometimes familiar and sometimes derived from his personal sources.
Michaels style of painting often changes from work to work but what
remains is a constant enquiry into our perception of cultural history,
character and reality. Michaels specific agenda for the selection and
alteration of chosen subjects is ambiguous, though a sense of unease and
sexual tension seeps through every painting in the exhibition.
Born: 1967,Glasgow. Solo exhibitions: Alan Michael, featuring William
Copley, Transmission, Glasgow, 2002 . Selected exhibitions/projects Add
Night to Night, Showroom, London; Fan of Exaggeration, La Cie Compagnie,
Marseille; Slipstream, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, all 1998.
Horseriding, Painting and Lovemaking, Deutsch Britische Freundschaft,
London; Shake the Disease, (curated by Lucy McKenzie), Duncan of
Jordanstone College of Art Dundee; You Are Very Important, Collective
Gallery, Edinburgh; Accelerated Learning, Duncan of Jordanstone College
of Art, Dundee, all 1999. Sweet Dreams, Exedra, Hilversum, Netherlands;
Focus On The Pain, On Destruction On Death, Venetia Kapernekas Fine Art
Inc., New York; Fear of Jazz, Deutsch Britische Freundschaft, Berlin;
Red Marauder, Tramway, Glasgow; Panache,(with Keith Farquhar and Lucy
McKenzie), Els Hanappe Underground, Athens all 2000. Antarctica,
Entwistle, London; Brown Field, Market, Glasgow; Here + Now, Dundee
Contempo!
! rary Arts, Dundee all 2001
Next exhibition: Gerhard Stromberg, Or So It Seemed, 19 April 24 May
For more information go to:
http://www.e-flux.com/site2002/index.phtml?client=welcome/ent
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