This is not a painting, The Open Eye Club’s 2nd event, was a selection of videos, animations and installation by artists from a painting background and a painting by Michael Fullerton. It took place at the Glasgow Project Room in February 2006.
Michael Fullerton, Penetrated installation view
Part One
Maurice Doherty, A Moment of Clarity in My Studio. Doherty graduated from the University of Ulster, Belfast, in 1997 and completed a Masters in Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art, in 2001. Doherty has recently had an exhibition titled 'Eternal Rotation' at Tramway, Glasgow. He has a forthcoming exhibition in May-June 2006 at Workplace Gallery, Newcastle.
Ann Bowman, Mister Tucker Wuz a Fucker. Bowman was born in San Antonio and raised in Baltimore. USA. She graduated from the painting department at Glasgow School of Art in 2005 and is now based in Glasgow. “ The first mistake that knowledge makes is thinking that it knows. Every assumption or fact that results from that first knowing becomes the second, third, and fourth mistake.”
Krisdy Shindler, The Second Mistake. Shindler is a Glasgow based artists, originally from Vancouver, Canada. She is currently completing her MFA at the Glasgow School of Art. Shindler’s work explores visual re-definition, the describing of the landscapes and the cartography of knowledge. Using a variety of methods, primarily painting and stop-frame animation, her work investigates the movements, mechanics and progression of knowledge.
The Towell Brothers, Lust For Life. “Currently we are working with the clichéd notions and outmoded fallacies of the artist’s persona. Our weekdays are occupied by laughing and crying our way through a glut of Hollywood biopics of the great artists, such as “Lust for Life”, “The Agony and the Ecstasy”, and “Pollock”. At the weekends we’re to be found dancing to “Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs in an absinthe fuelled haze in our tiny garret”. The Towell Brothers are Derrick & Darrin Towell and are based in Limerick, Ireland.
Interval
MEETING POP made in a ‘pop scratch manner’ uses clips from the Michael Powell film ‘Peeping Tom’ and combines it with cgi animation. For ‘this is not a painting’ Mulholland is presenting MEETING POP as a video installation. Born in Glasgow, Craig Mulholland completed his BA in Drawing & Painting at Glasgow School of Art and is represented by Sorcha Dallas.
Part Two
Roderigo Cinfuegos, The Beauty Mark. “I’d like to think of this piece as a sort of Hyper Queer-Noir Montage. or something like that. In a context where the body has been marked by brutal forms of symbolic and actual physical violence in the recent past, this movement has become specially inspiring in terms of the possibilities of thinking of our existence as bodily beings, marked by power.” Cienfuegos is a Chilean artist who studied on the MFA at GSA, he is currently based in Santiago, Chile.
We Should Have Dinner More Often, Ann Bowman. See above.
Sigga Bjorg Sigurdardottir, There is a Party at Paraside Park Tonight. Sigga is an Icelandic artist based in Glasgow. In the last year she has exhibited in Iceland, Glasgow, London, Berlin, Sidney, New York, Denmark and Stockholm. Recently she has been awarded with the yearly pair of hand knitted "Woollen Gloves" by the Icelandic Art Academy. She mainly makes drawings but also animations and music.
Penetrated
Margaret Burr (Thomas Gainsborough’s wife) at one hour old.
Unfinished.
“For Fullerton, the painting process is analogous to a recording mechanism for which the artist claims ultimate responsibility” (Lizzie Carey-Thomas). Michael Fullerton is a Glasgow based painter who’s practice has also included printmaking and sculpture and who’s subjects range from political figures to cultural icons. Fullerton is represented by Counter Gallery, London.
Sigga Bjorg Sigurdardottir, There is a Party at Paraside Park Tonight
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