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Alan Michael
Alan Michael
Untitled, 2005
Courtesy Alan Michael Stuart Shave/Modern Art
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For this year's Triennial, Michael is displaying his latest painting, Untitled.
Taking imagery from popular culture and his immediate surroundings,
Alan Michael's themes move freely between graphic design and art
history, religion, power and play.
In this painting the repeated depiction of jeans is a borrowed metaphor
for 'dressing down' as a fashion statement. For Michael the subject of
the work is not necessarily what is actually portrayed in each painting,
instead he is interested in the 'structure of the exchange between
audience and artist'.
Biography
Born in 1967 in Glasgow
1996–1998 Glasgow School of Art
1992–1996 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee
Selected Solo Exhibitions
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2005
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Modern Art, London
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2003
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Burlesque Schematic, HOTEL, London
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2002
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Entwistle, London
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
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Selected Group Exhibitions
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2004
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Year Zero, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland
Haute Street, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
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2003
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This has reached the limit conditions of its own rhetoric, Modern Institute, Glasgow
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2002
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Half a World Away, Halls Walls CCA, Buffalo, New York
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Lives and works in Glasgow
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