Alan Uglow

Alan Uglow
Born 1941
Luton, UK
Died 2011
New York City, US
Nationality British
Known for Artist

Alan Uglow (1941–2011) was a British abstract painter. He moved to New York City from London, in 1969. Called "a painter's painter" by Roberta Smith.[1] Uglow also created objects, sound and visual installations, and in the 1980s, played bass in the band Hard Labour. He died January 20, 2011, in Manhattan, at age sixty-nine, from complications related to lung cancer.

Career

United Kingdom

Uglow attended Leicester College of Art, in his early teens. While a student there, he saw an exhibition titled, "The New American Painting," Tate Gallery, London, (1959), a show of American Abstract Expressionism, about which he later commented, "[At seventeen], I wasn’t sure I understood everything I was seeing, but I knew they would understand everything I was trying to do." After Leicester, Uglow went on to Central School, London, in painting and printmaking. After finishing art school, Uglow’s work was included in “Young Contemporaries” (London, 1960/64), “Bradford Spring Exhibition” (1963/64), Grabowski Gallery, (London, 1965), and “Contemporary British Painters,” (Lyon, France, 1966). United States Uglow visited New York for three weeks, in 1968, moving there permanently, in 1969. He soon met fellow painters Jake Berthot, Brice Marden, and Winston Roeth; in the early 1970s, Uglow and Roeth printed for Petersburg Press. In 1974, Uglow moved from his loft on Greene Street to one on the Bowery, where he lived and worked until his death in 2011*.

In 1975, Uglow's work was in the Whitney Biennial. The year before and the year after the Biennial, his work was included in group shows at Bykert Gallery, run by Klaus Kertess. After Kertess left Bykert, Uglow showed with Mary Boone in her opening group show (1978), and had his first one-person shows in New York (1978, '79). He later showed with Lorence-Monk Gallery, (1985-1990), and Stark Gallery (1993-2002). It was at Lorence-Monk that Uglow first exhibited his "low rider" paintings, as well as Signals, (1988), a four-panel piece, with sound, first shown in Amsterdam, as part of "Century '87." At Stark, Uglow showed another sound piece, his football-inspired, Coach's Bench. Beginning in 1992 and continuing throughout 2009, Uglow made a series of paintings, titled Standards. All are 7' x 6' (214 x 183 cm); all are installed on wooden blocks. In 2013, Uglow's work was shown posthumously in a solo exhibition at David Zwirner, curated by Bob NicNickas. In 2014, MIT List Visual Arts Center held an exhibition of his Standards and Portraits.

*In 1986 and 1992/93, Uglow lived in Cologne.

References

  1. ↑ Smith, Roberta (February 2, 2011). "Alan Uglow, Abstract Painter, Dies at 69". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 10 February 2011. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
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