Alan Uglow: Artist Talk

Alan Uglow was born in Luton, England in 1941 and died in New York in 2011. He earned a degree in painting and printmaking from the Central School of Art in London in 1962. He participated in his first group show at Bykert Gallery in 1974 and in 1978 he made his solo debut in simultaneous shows at the galleries of Mary Boone and Susan Caldwell.
Work by Alan Uglow has been featured in a number of solo and group exhibitions worldwide. A solo show of Uglow's work, curated by Bob Nickas, is on view at David Zwirner, New York through March 23, 2013. Uglow's work was also shown in a 2012 group summer show, Standard Operating Procedures at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, organized by Piper Marshall. He was also exhibited in 2012 in the group show Stand still like the hummingbird at David Zwirner. In 2010, his work was the subject of two large exhibitions concurrently on view in Germany at the Museum Wiesbaden and the Museum Haus Esters in Krefeld. Other recent solo exhibitions include the CCNOA -- Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels (2006) and the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (2004). His first museum solo exhibition was held in 1992 at the Kölnischer Kunstverein in Cologne.
Uglow's work is represented in private and public collections internationally, including the Cincinnati Art Museum; Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; High Museum, Atlanta; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland; Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany; Museum Wiesbaden, Germany; National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik; Sammlung Goetz, Munich; Sammlung Lafrenz, Hamburg; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

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I can't imagine Alan being anything but appalled by this.

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Uglow's work was so full of joy and insight and wit (that's what made it so great ) but these guys are so joyless, humourless and clueless it's painful to watch