 Alan Michael Alan Michael (*1967, Glasgow) is a young Glasgow-based artist who creates obsessive and sexually charged drawings and paintings that layer reference points and styles. This will be Michael’s first solo exhibition in London having developed a strong reputation in Scotland for his exhibitions at DCA, Tramway and Transmission. Michael's 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. Michael's 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. Michael’s 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. Ausstellungsdauer: 8.3 - 13.4.2002 Oeffnungszeiten: Di-Sa 10 - 17.30 Uhr Gallery Entwistle 6 Cork St GB-London W1S 3EE Telefon +44 20 7734 6440 E-Mail darren@entwistle.net |
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