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Alan JohnstonScottish Abstract Contemporary Minimalist Art Bronze Sculpture Alan Johnston 2/21988
1988
About the Item
Alan Johnston (Scottish, born 1945),
Untitled, 1988, cast bronze, edition of 2, cast #2
Incised A.J. 2/2 88 on underside
Provenance: Jack Tilton Gallery, NY
This is a weighty, solid bronze sculpture mounted to a clear, lucite, acrylic or plexiglass base
Alan Johnston, one of the leading British geometric abstract artists of his generation. Known for his large-scale architectural interventions and wall drawings including collaborations with architects such as Diener & Diener in Basel, Reiach & Hall architects Edinburgh, Shinichi Ogawa architects Tokyo and Hiroshima and Shinichi Ogawa in Japan, in 2013, he was commissioned to create a large ceiling drawing as part of the refurbishment of Tate Britain.
His work has its roots in the practice of art, architecture and visual thinking in the West and the East, and relates to concepts and practices such as Wabi Sabi and Minimalism. His work is also related to the work of Patrick Geddes. He has engaged in collaborative initiatives in art and architecture with Professor Shinichi Ogawa, Tokyo, and Neil Gillespie, Edinburgh.
Lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland
EDUCATION
1972 - 73 Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf
1969 - 72 Royal College of Art, London
1964 - 69 Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Alan Johnston, H-I-C-A, Inverness-shire, Scotland, UK
2015 SAFN, Berlin, Germany
Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, Germany
2013 Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
Wall Drawing, Tate Britain, London, UK
2012 Drawing A Shadow: No Object. Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
2011 Spazio attivo ovvero struttura: Renata Fabbri Contemporary Art, Milano, Italy
2010 Drawing House of Art. Budejovice, Czech Republic
2010 exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute
2009 Wall Drawing Peloton, Sydney Australia
2008 Wall Drawing U8, Nagoya, Japan
Tanizaki’s Mountains. Concept Space. Gunma, Japan
2007 Encased A.P.U.F.A.M. Museum, Aichi, Japan
Shadow Without Object, NSA Gallery, Hiroshima, Japan
Wall drawing, New Bedford Art Museum. New Bedford, USA
2005 Cairn Gallery Pittenweem Fife, Scotland, UK
1999 Northern Mirror Bury Museum, Bury, Greater Manchester, UK. Exhibition and installation
Two Cubes, I.A.V.A Akiyoshidai International Contemporary Art and Architecture Academy. An
Architectural Collaboration with Shinichi Ogawa, Akiyoshidai, Japan
1998 The Norwich Gallery, N.S.A.D. Norwich
Jack Tilton Gallery, NYC, USA
1996 The Lisson Gallery, London.
1994 Jack Tilton Gallery, NYC, USA
Haus Wittgenstein, Vienna, Austria
1993 Shimada Gallery, Yamaguchi, Japan
1979 Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
1978 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
1977 Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
1975 Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK
1974 Von Der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 A Parliament of Lines, CAC Edinburgh, UK. Including Charles Avery, Paul Chiappe, Layla Curtis, Nathalie De Briey, Moyna Flanagan, Luca Frei, Euan Gray, Sam Griffin, Marie Harnett, Callum Innes, Andrew MacKenzie, David Shrigley, Graeme Todd, Ainslie Yule
2011 Faster and Slower Lines - From the Collection of Pétur Arason and Ragna Róbertsdóttir, The Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland. Curated by Birta Gudjondottir and Petur Arason. Including Ingolfur Arnarsson, Birgir Andresson, Stanley Brouwn, Helmut Federle, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Roni Horn, Kristjan Gudmundsson, Donald Judd, Richard Long, Dieter Rot, Karin Sander, Lawrence Weiner
Presente Futuro, Bordarier, Renata Fabbri arte contemporanea, Milano, IT. Inlcuding McLune, Radi,
Sartorio, Shanahan, Thurston
2010 IFF, Marseilles, FR. curated by Gavin Morrison. Including Douglas Gordon, Sean Shanahan, Fraser Stables
2009 Tactile Vision, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Curated and participated group exhibition including Roger Ackling, David Connearn, Yoko Terauchi, Thomas Clark, Andreas Karl Schulze, Eiji Watanabe, Taka Iwasaki, Ragna Robertsdottir, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Takaya Fujii, Thomas Struth, Hideo Shimada, Richard Tuttle, Adam Barker-Mill, On Kawara, Tom Benson, Takashi Suzuki, John McLaughlin, Atsuo Hukuda, Kenzo Onada, Shinichi Ogawa, Yasuko Otsuka, Masayuki Yasuhara
SNO Contemporary Art Projects. 48, Sydney, Australia. Curated by Richard Dunn. Including Mark Brown, Richard Dunn, Marita Fraser, Manya Ginori, Alex Lawler, Adrian McDonald, Ragna Robertsdottir, Tsong Eng Tan
2007 The Secret Theory of Drawing, The Drawing Room, London
Niland Gallery Model Arts Sligo Ireland. Including David Austen, Trisha Donnelly, Olafur Elliasson, Ceal Floyer, Ellen Gallagher, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Patrick Ireland, Alan Johnston, John Latham, Mark Manders, Matt Mullican, Anri Sala, Bojan Šarčević, Joelle Tuerlinckx, Cathy Wilkes
IRRATIONAL THOUGHTS. In Memory of Sol Le Witt. Sol LeWitt, Lolly Batty, David Bellingham, Pavel Buchler, Thomas A Clark, David Connearn, Kenneth Dingwall, Alec Finlay, Alan Johnston, Jonathan Monk, Bernardo Ortiz, Adrian Piper, John Shankie, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Whittlesea.
2005 Exposed-Contemporary Art from the City’s Collection, City Art Centre Edinburgh,
Celebrate, Jack Tilton Gallery. NYC, USA. Including Rickrit Tiravanija, Nancy Spero, Kiki Smith, Ernst
Caramelle, Fabrice Hybert, Douglas Gordon, David Hammons, Marlene Dumas, Francis Alys, Wim
Delvoye, Fred Tomaselli.
Evergreen, Inverleith House, RBGE, Edinburgh, UK. Curated by Paul Nesbitt. Including, Carl Andre, Cy Twombly, Lawrence Weiner, Thomas Struth, Franz West, Douglas Gordon, Rory McEwan, Richard Wright, Agnes Martin, Ruth Vollmer
Per La Musica, Encounter in the Earth of Siena, Casteluccio. Curated by Peter Moser. Including, Michael Biberstein, Mark Staff Brandl, Thomas Clark, Kenneth Dingwall, Janis Kounellis, Bernhard Lüthi, Beverly Pepper, Not Vital, Beat Zoderer
2004 The Director’s Chair, Open Eye Gallery. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Künstlerbücher, With Auberger, Eduardo Chillida, Partenheimer, Schütte, Schwegler, Galerie Ute Parduhn. Düsseldorf, Germany
Fifty Years of Supporting The New, The Aldrich Museum. Ridgefield CT, USA. Including Ad Reinhardt, Antoni, Finch, Tomaselli
2001 It must be abstract it must change it must give pleasure, York City Art Gallery, York. Curated by Greville Worthington. Including Alan Davie, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Alan Charlton, Richard Long
1997 Peterburger Hängung Galerie Cora Hölzl, Düsseldorf. With Hans Damisch, Heerich, Klein, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Dieter Roth.
1987 Synopsis Gallery, Cora Hölzl, Düsseldorf. With Jean Hans Arp, Joseph Beuys, Richard Tuttle
- Creator:Alan Johnston (1945, Scottish)
- Creation Year:1988
- Dimensions:Height: 27.25 in (69.22 cm)Width: 3.25 in (8.26 cm)Depth: 4.25 in (10.8 cm)
- Medium:
- Period:
- Condition:mInor wear commensurate with age.
- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU3828183862
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