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Article: Alan Uglow at Stark.(exhibition of painters work at Stark Museum of Art)(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- April 1, 1999
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Alan Uglow's exhibition at Stark, his first there in five years, presented a series of soccer-related meditations on the conditions of framing. Each of the four paintings displayed, three of which were recent additions to his ongoing "Standard" series, manipulated a similar format: over an uninflected white ground (laid down in many layers with a paint-soaked sponge to eliminate any trace of the artist's hand) are inscribed a number of razor-edge lines and tabs that repeat the framing edges of the canvas--not unlike the chalk lines demarcating the limits of a playing field. These large rectangular paintings (each 72 by 84 inches) ask us to reflect on the nature of the ...
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Article: All Uglow with an inner light.(Features)
The Journal (Newcastle, England);
July 31, 2003 ;
700+ words
... ... retrospective exhibition of the works of Euan Uglow. And once again they have produced a magnificent ... after the paintings have all gone home. Uglow died in 2000 of cancer, aged 68. He painted ... is for his nudes that the London-born Uglow is best known. These are usually meticulous ...
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