VisualArt
■ GALLERY OF MODERN ART Royal Exchange Square, 287 3050. Mon–Wed & Sat 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–8pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. ✽✽ FREE Alasdair Gray: City Recorder Until Jun 2012. Art
from Gray’s time as ‘artist recorder’ for the city of Glasgow in 1977. FREE Atelier Public Until Sun 15 Jan 2012. Open studio in which the public are invited to make art. FREE Videonale.13 Until Sun 27 Nov. Work from the 13th biennial festival of contemporary video art in Bonn. FREE You, Me, Something Else Until Mar 2012. Work by Glasgow sculptors including Claire Barclay, Karla Black and Joanne Tatham & Tom O’Sullivan.
■ GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO Trongate 103, 552 0704. Tue–Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Members’ Christmas Show Until Fri 23 Dec. Prints and gifts by the gallery artists. FREE Unique and Original Until Sun 27 Nov. One-off etchings, screenprints, sculptures and paintings by artists including David Sherry, Jo Ganter, Adrian Wiszniewski and Neil MacPherson.
■ GLASGOW PROJECT ROOM Trongate 103, 552 1472. Tue–Sat noon–5pm. FREE Hand to Eye Sat 19–Sat 26 Nov. Group show by Karen Cunningham, Charlie Hammond, Anne- Marie Copestake and Gordon Schmidt. ■ GLASGOW SCULPTURE STUDIOS 145 Kelvinhaugh Street, 204 1740. Thu–Sat noon–5pm. FREE Sarah Forrest: P is for Protagonist Thu 1–Sat 17 Dec. Newly commissioned work.
■ GOETHE INSTITUT 3 Park Circus, 332 2555. Mon–Thu 10am–5pm; Fri 10am–4pm. FREE Oh Tannenbaum! Thu 1–Thu 22 Dec. Inventive and unexpected representations of Christmas trees from staff and students of the Karlsruhe College of Arts and Design.
■ HUNTERIAN MUSEUM & ART GALLERY University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead Street, 330 5431. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 11am–4pm. Colour, Rhythm & Form: JD Fergusson and France Until Sun 8 Jan 2012. £5 (£3). Exhibition of work by the late great Scottish Colourist, celebrating in particular his lifelong interest in France. See picture, page 124. FREE The Art of the Poster Until Sun 8 Jan 2012. Classic poster designs from the late 19th century, including Mackintosh, the Macdonald sisters, Toulouse-Lautrec, Alphonse Mucha and Jules Cheret. ■ IOTA Unlimited Studios, 25 Hyndland Street, 338 6052. Tue & Wed 1–5pm; Thu 10am–6pm; Fri & Sat 10am–5pm. FREE Gordon A Currie: Fairytale Heartbeats Until Sun 27 Nov. New work in mixed media.
■ KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY & MUSEUM Argyle Street, 276 9599. Mon–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Scottish Glass at Kelvingrove Until Jul 2012. Glass art and artefacts from the 18th century to the present day.
■ KENDALL KOPPE GALLERY Suite 1–2, 6 Dixon Street, 07969 403472. Wed–Sat noon–6pm. FREE Charlotte Prodger: handclap / punchhole Until Sat 10 Dec. Film and video work made with 122 THE LIST 17 Nov–15 Dec 2011
analogue/vintage hardware.
■ MACKINTOSH MUSEUM The Glasgow School of Art, 167 Renfrew Street, 353 4500. Mon–Fri 10.30am–4.30pm; Sat 10am–2pm. FREE Mobile Solutions Until Sat 17 Dec. Mobile structures made by Bibliobox, Justin Carter, Grizedale Arts, Icecream Architecture, The Mobile Foundry and Public Works.
■ MANSFIELD PARK GALLERY 5 Hyndland Street, 342 4124. Wed–Sat 11am–5pm; Sat 11am–4pm. FREE Neil MacDonald: A Sense of Place Until Sat 19 Nov. Landscapes of castles, old townships and harbours.
■ MARKET GALLERY 334 Duke Street, 556 7276. Thu–Sun 11am–5pm. FREE New Graduates Until Sat 10 Dec. A collaboration with London-based curatorial collective Volume. ■ MARY MARY Suite 2/1, 6 Dixon Street, 226 2257. Tue–Sat noon–6pm. FREE Lili Reynaud-Dewar: Some objects blackened and a body too Sat 19 Nov–Thu 22 Dec. Sculpture and video drawing on the artist’s early ballet training and the iconography of dance.
■ THE MODERN INSTITUTE 14–20 Osborne Street, 248 3711. Mon–Fri 10am–6pm; Sat noon–5pm. FREE Sue Tompkins Until Sat 19 Nov. New work from an artists recently included in the British Art Show. FREE Henrik Håkansson Sat 26 Nov–Sat 7 Jan 2012. Experimental, contemporary Swedish artist.
■ PROJECT ABILITY Trongate 103, 552 2822. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm. FREE Collected: Project Ability Until Sat 19 Nov. An exhibition of small works received in response to a call for submissions. ■ RGI KELLY GALLERY 118 Douglas Street, 248 6386. Tue–Fri 10.30am–5pm; Sat 10.30am–3pm. FREE Kim Canal and Patricia Cain: Liminal Spaces Until Sat 26 Nov. Paintings and mixed media works.
FREE Cabinet Pictures and Other Small Works Thu 1–Thu 22 Dec. Smaller framed works and other unique items available to buy. ■ ROGER BILLCLIFFE GALLERY 134 Blythswood Street, 332 4027. Mon–Fri 9.30am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–1pm (until 4pm in Dec). FREE Docgan Until Sat 19 Nov. Sculpture exhibition celebrating dogs. FREE Winter Design Collection Thu 1–Sat 24 Dec. Jewellery, textiles, ceramics and leatherwork from gallery artists, all available to buy.
■ SCOTLANDART.COM 193 Bath Street, 221 4502. Tue–Fri 10.30am–5.30pm; Sat 11am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Bryan Evans Until Sun 27 Nov. New watercolours of Glasgow. FREE Christmas Exhibition Fri 2 Dec–Sun 22 Jan 2012. Painting and sculpture from gallery artists.
■ SMITHY GALLERY 74 Glasgow Road, Blanefield, 01360 770551. Tue–Sat 11am–5pm; Sun 1–5pm. FREE Margaretann Bennett RSW Until Sun 20 Nov. Paintings exploring loss and resemblance. FREE Christmas Exhibition Sun 27 Nov–Sat 24 Dec. Festive exhibition by gallery artists with ceramics, jewellery and sculpture also on show. ■ ST MUNGO MUSEUM OF RELIGIOUS LIFE AND ART 2 Castle Street, 276 1625. Tue–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. FREE Sand Mandala Wed 23–Sun 27 Nov. Witness the creation of an intricate sand sculpture by monks from the Tashi Lhupno Monastery in Tibet, then, as is traditional, see it destroyed again (on Sun 27 Nov) in a ceremonial process designed to represent the impermanence of all things.
■ STREET LEVEL PHOTO WORKS Trongate 103, 552 2151. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm.
✽✽ FREE Gayle Chong Kwan: The Obsidian Isle Until Sun 11
Dec. Large format photographic prints of a fictional island. See Artbeat, page 118.
FREE Louise Crawford & Stéphan Guéneau: Language for Sale Until Sun 11 Dec. An exhibition made partly out of reclaimed shop signs from Glasgow’s Merchant City. ■ TRAMWAY 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. Tue–Fri noon–5pm; Sat & Sun noon–6pm. FREE Art by Offenders: The Koestler Exhibition for Scotland Until Sun 27 Nov. Art and writing selected for the 2011 Koestler Awards. FREE Elad Lassry: Untitled (Ghost) Until Sun 4 Dec. Recent film employing the artist’s typical restaging and layering techniques to investigate the tradition of ‘spirit’ photography.
■ TRANSMISSION GALLERY Trongate 103, 552 7141. Tue–Sat 11am–5pm.
✽✽ FREE Group Show ●●●●● Until Sat 26 Nov. Eclectic group
show by nine Glasgow-based artists. See review, page 119. FREE Katrina Palmer Presents Sat 3–Sat 10 Dec. New work from an artist who has moved from sculpture into writing and book-making. FREE Chooc Ly Tan: New Materials in the Reading of the World Tue 6–Sun 16 Dec. New work by an artist with an interest in science and the laws of physics. ■ THE VIRGINIA GALLERY 45 Virginia Street, 552 5699. Mon–Sat 11am–6pm; Sun 12.30–5pm. FREE Re-Invention Until Sat 26 Nov. Group show exploring ideas about heroes, heroines and champions of the underdog. Part of Glasgay! FREE #MAN Sat 3–Sat 24 Dec. Group show exploring man as subject, ideas of masculinity and the man- made.
EDINBURGH ■ ALPHA ART GALLERY 52 Hamilton Place, Stockbridge, 226 3066. Mon–Tue & Thu–Fri 10am–5.30pm; Sat 10am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. FREE Peter Howson and Frank McFadden Until Sun 27 Nov. New paintings by the two artists.
Torsten Lauschmann: Startle Reaction Startle Reaction is the biggest solo show to date from German-born, Glasgow-based artist Lauschmann. The exhibition features work from the past decade alongside a new, immersive piece spanning the length of the gallery, and uses the artist’s interest in technology to explore the notion that we continue to believe in things that have been proven to be false. Works on display include ‘Misshapen Pearl’, which looks at the streetlamp’s function in consumer society; ‘Skipping Over Damaged Areas’, which uses appropriated footage of film titles with a new and unexpected narrative; and an interactive piece in which exhibition goers can watch different films at the same time through 3D glasses. ■ Dundee Contemporary Arts, until Sun 8 Jan.