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Exhibitions are listed by city, then alphabetically by venue. Submit listings at least 16 days before publication to art@list. co.uk. Listings compiled by Alex Johnston. All exhibitions free unless otherwise stated. ✽ Indicates Hitlist entry GLASGOW
■ 1 ROYAL TERRACE Royal Terrace, 07742 314420. Opening times vary, see individual exhibitions for details. LAST CHANCE Nick Thomas: Quote Spam Sat 22 & Sun 23 Feb, noon–5pm. Solo show by Glasgow-based artist on art and technology.
■ ANNAN GALLERY 164 Woodlands Road, 332 0028. Tue–Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun noon–4pm. LAST CHANCE Pam Carter: Island to Urban Until Sun 2 Mar. Landscapes by the Scottish artist.
■ THE ARCHES 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000. Opening times vary, see individual exhibitions for details. LAST CHANCE Gabriella Marcella DiTano: Super Signs Until Thu 27 Feb. Mon–Sat 11am–1am. Prints inspired by the signs of the zodiac.
■ CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. Galleries Tue–Sat 11am–6pm, Sun noon–6pm; general opening hours Mon– Sat 10am–midnight, Sun noon–midnight. LAST CHANCE Alexander Millar: Novella Until Sun 23 Feb. Recent work developed during a residency in Marseilles. Sonia Boyce, Pavel Büchler, Susan Hiller: Speaking in Tongues Until Sun 23 Mar. Sonia Boyce’s work reflects her experience as a black woman in a white society; Pavel Büchler’s work is inflected by his origins in the no-longer existing country of Czechoslovakia, while Susan Hiller reveals a fascination with the hidden and repressed in the everyday. See review, page 97. ■ COMPASS GALLERY 178 West Regent Street, 221 6370. Mon– Sat 9.30am–5.30pm. Mixed Exhibition Until Sat 22 Mar. Work by gallery artists, including Lesley Banks, Helen Flockhart, Alexander Fraser, Jack Knox, Neil MacPherson, David Martin, Philip Reeves, Lara Scouller, Gregor Smith, Peter Thomson, Adrian Wiszniewski and Alma Wolfson.
■ CYRIL GERBER FINE ART 178 West Regent Street, 221 3095. Mon–Fri 9.30am–5.30pm; Sat 10.30am– 5.30pm. 19th–21st Century British Drawings, Paintings and Sculpture Until Sat 22 Mar. Work from the gallery collection, including Scottish contemporaries and modern masters.
■ EASTWOOD PARK THEATRE Eastwood Park, Rouken Glen Road, Giffnock, 577 4970. Mon–Sat 10am– 5.30pm; Sun 11am–4pm; Gallery open Mon–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 11am–4pm. NEW Hugh Hood: Glasgow 1974 Mon 10 Mar–Fri 30 May. Veteran photographer Hugh Hood’s gritty, unsentimental images of Glasgow in 1974 document a time when the city was undergoing a radical programme of demolition and redevelopment.
■ GALLERY OF MODERN ART Royal Exchange Square, 287 3050. Mon– Wed & Sat 10am–5pm; Thu 10am–8pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. Atelier Public #2 Until Tue 27 May. Work from Modern Edinburgh Film School. Emma Balkind, Brian Hartley and Anthony Schrag explore play, 98 THE LIST 20 Feb–20 Mar 2014
and drawing from Canadian artist based in Glasgow. ■ HIDDEN LANE GALLERY 1081 Argyle Street, 07760 669011. Tue– Sat 11am–5pm. LAST CHANCE 101 Artefacts from Africa Until Sat 15 Mar. Masks, statues and carvings from Africa, collected over the past 200 years.
■ HILLHEAD LIBRARY 348 Byres Road, 339 7223. Mon, Tue & Thu 10am–8pm; Wed 10am–5pm; Fri & Sat 9am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. Antonio Pacitti: The Story of a Scottish-Italian Family Until Fri 28 Mar. The photographic story of a Scottish-Italian family.
■ HOUSE FOR AN ART LOVER Bellahouston Park, 10 Dumbreck Road, 353 4776. Art Lovers Cafe and Shop open daily 10am–5pm; House opening times vary, please call to check. Jackie Anderson and Susan Eaton Until Mon 31 Mar. Individual attitudes to portraiture and landscape from two Scottish artists. ■ HUNTERIAN MUSEUM & ART GALLERY University of Glasgow, 82 Hillhead Street, 330 4221. Tue–Sat 10am–5pm; Sun 11am–4pm. Whistler and Watercolour Until Sun 23 Feb. Watercolours by the flamboyant American artist James McNeill Whistler.
■ IOTA Unlimited Studios, 25 Hyndland Street, 338 6052. Tue, Wed, Fri & Sat 10am– 5pm; Thu 10am–6pm during exhibitions. Otherwise open during office hours and on Farmers’ Market Saturdays. NEW Amy Winstanley: Detritus & Other Stories Fri 7–Sat 22 Mar. Work by young Kirkcudbright-based artist interested in the contradictions in the relationship between humans and the natural world.
■ KELVINGROVE ART GALLERY & MUSEUM Argyle Street, 276 9599. Mon–Thu & Sat 10am–5pm; Fri & Sun 11am–5pm. LAST CHANCE Jack Vettriano: A Retrospective Until Sun 23 Feb. £5 (£3). First major retrospective by Scotland’s most successful living painter. ■ THE LIGHTHOUSE 11 Mitchell Lane, 276 5360. Mon–Sat 10.30am–5pm; Sun noon–5pm. LAST CHANCE Best Use of Timber: RIAS Timber Awards Until Thu 13 Mar. Innovative uses of wood from architectural projects all over Scotland. Britain from Above: Scotland’s Industrial Might Until Sun 27 Apr. Aerial photographs of Scotland’s industrial heartland from 1919 to 1953, taken from the Aerofilms Collection. LAST CHANCE D&G | OUT Until Sat 22 Feb. Work by designers and makers from Dumfries and Galloway. Part of Spring Fling. LAST CHANCE Derelict Glasgow Until Tue 4 Mar. Images of derelict buildings in Glasgow, captured by Joe Shaldon. NEW It’s Not Very Nice That: Politics in Contemporary Graphic Design Fri 21 Feb–Sun 27 Apr. A look at the ways in which graphic designers have responded to the increasing social unrest of the last decade, such as the Arab Spring and the response to the Wikileaks revelations. NEW Friends of Wilson: Architectural Acoustic Panels Fri 28 Feb–Sun 6 Apr. Friends of Wilson is a design firm that manufactures acoustic panelling that helps to reduce ambient noise in spaces such as offices, restaurants or bars. This exhibition demonstrates how acoustic panelling can improve the places where we live and work.
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PAINTING SPENCER SWEENEY Modern Institute, Glasgow, Sat 1 Mar–Wed 26 Mar
‘Artist, musician, DJ, club owner and playboy mystic of the land below 14th Street’ is the phrase Interview magazine used to introduce Spencer Sweeney when he met up with his friend and business partner, the rock star Andrew WK, to chat about Sweeney’s life and work. It’s a description that lends him a seismic cultural cachet, but is the word ‘artist’ watered down by all those other strings on the bow placed alongside it? Is he, in effect, a bit of a dilettante?
It’s not an accusation that would be levelled were he based in less
flashy art hubs, such as Berlin or Glasgow, but there’s something about New York that fosters the cult of the art sleb almost as much as London. Born in Philadelphia in 1973, Sweeney first worked as a DJ when he moved to NY in the 1990s. A meeting with the English gallery owner Gavin Brown led him to curate shows at Brown’s enterprise, and to programme performances at Passerby, where he first met WK. The pair later went on to collaborate on celebrated downtown gig venue Santos Party House. A closer look at his practice reveals that it’s precisely this difference
that he celebrates. Sweeney is a painter, and a selection of works on canvas will be displayed here, including those from his ‘Party Painting’ series, a group of bright, garish portraits created with broad brush strokes, which mirror the feverish late-night lifestyle. At the same time, he deals in various other visual and performance media, with a one-off off-site performance by New York’s Vogue dancers taking place as part of this show. Regardless of his success, his is a fragmentary, adaptive creative life, which any artist trying to make room for their work might recognise. (David Pollock)
participation, democracy and the public space. Part of Glasgow International. LAST CHANCE Ian Hamilton Finlay Until Sat 1 Mar. A major exhibition of prints, cards, booklets and sculpture by poet and visual artist Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006), one of the most remarkable Scottish artists of the 20th century. LAST CHANCE Living with War: Artists on War and Conflict Until Sun 9 Mar. Work from the gallery’s collection on themes of war and conflict, with featured artists including Omer Fast, Jenny Holzer, Walid Raad and the Atlas Group, Barbara Kruger and artists from earlier periods such as Francisco de Goya and Christopher Nevinson. NEW Sue Tompkins: Come to Ozark Thu 6 Mar–Tue 22 Apr. New fabric pieces, paintings and works on newsprint, as well as a performance. Glasgow International. NEW Illuminated Letters: International Women’s Day
Exhibition Sat 8–Sun 16 Mar. In celebration of International Women’s Day, the Glasgow Women’s Library presents its exhibition of illuminated letters created by women and girls, written to history’s impressive women.
■ GLASGOW PRINT STUDIO Trongate 103, 552 0704. Gallery: Tue– Sat 10am–5.30pm; Sun noon–5pm. Workshop: Tue–Thu 10am–9pm; Fri & Sat 10am–5.30pm. Hetty Haxworth, Aimée Henderson and Rosalind Lawless: In Abstraction Until Sun 23 Mar. Abstract prints by three master printmakers. ■ GLASGOW SCULPTURE STUDIOS The Whisky Bond, Dawson Street, 353 3708. Wed–Sat 11am–5pm. LAST CHANCE Scott Rogers: Negative Miracle Until Sat 1 Mar. New works in video, sound, sculpture