All The Wright Angles: Richard Wright at The Modern Institute, Glasgow

Richard Wright, 'Untitled', acrylic and graphite pencil
Richard Wright, 'Untitled', acrylic and graphite pencil

Times:
Mon - Fri 10:00 - 18:00, Sat 12:00 - 17:00

To: 24 Aug 2024

Venue:
The Modern Institute
3 Aird’s Lane
Glasgow
Glasgow & the Clyde Valley
G1 5HU

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Richard Wright has created a temporary, site-specific wall painting at the Modern Institute’s Aird’s Lane gallery in Glasgow, its geometry drawing attention to the light and air and the way the architecture holds them. Composed of multiple shapes alternating in scale, colour and direction, the work was painted with one-stroke brushes, each section applied meticulously using worked and reworked drawings to eventually produce a complex digital cartoon. Wright drew influence from Dutch artist Piet Mondrian’s Transatlantic Paintings, a series produced between 1935 and 1940.  

Also showing are Keith Haring: Subway Drawings, of which the artist made hundreds between 1980 and 1985, and, as featured in Artmag.co.uk, Kim Bohie: Beyond, a series of panoramic plant studies depicting moments of solitary contemplation.

Keith Haring, 'Subway Drawings', at the Modern Institute's Bricks Space
Keith Haring, ‘Subway Drawings’, at the Modern Institute’s Bricks Space

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