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Gerald LaingCity Center Light Opera1968
1968
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Gerald Laing
City Center Light Opera, 1968
Lime colored Screenprint on die-cut Mylar
Hand signed, numbered 6/144 and dated in pencil on the front
25 × 35 inches
Unframed
Gerald Laing Biography
Born in 1936, Gerald Laing attended the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst 1953-1955 and after a short army career attended St Martin’s School of Art between 1960-1964. After art school, Laing lived in New York for five years and then became artist in residence at Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, Colorado. Initially Laing was a Pop Artist and by the late 60s was known as a sculptor of minimal forms.
In 1969, during a period of disillusionment, he acquired and restored Kinkell Castle, on the Black Isle, in Scotland, eventually setting up a substantial bronze foundry there to handle his own work. By this time Laing had rejected abstraction for figuration, returning to the mainstream, but continually experimenting within in.
Laing’s teaching posts included visiting professor at University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1976-1977 and professor of sculpture at Columbia University, New York, 1986-1987. In 1978-1980, he was on the art committee of the Scottish Arts Council, and in 1987 was appointed commissioner on the Royal Commission for Fine Art for Scotland.
Laing has been shown internationally, having one man shows at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in 1963, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, in 1964; a string of exhibitions followed those, at the Richard Feigen Gallery in New York and in Chicago. In 1971, the Cincinnati Center for Contemporary Art held a retrospective exhibition, others following at Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, in 1971, and the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, in 1993.
In 1995, Laing was commissioned to make eight dragons for Bank tube station and, in 1996, four bronze rugby players for Twickenham Stadium. The Tate Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and AlbertMuseum, Scottish Art Gallery and many other public collections in Britain and abroad hold Laing’s work.
- Creator:Gerald Laing (1936 - 2011, British)
- Creation Year:1968
- Dimensions:Height: 25 in (63.5 cm)Width: 35 in (88.9 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745212819252
Gerald Laing
Gerald Ogilvie Laing (11 February 1936 – 23 November 2011) was a British pop artist and sculptor. He lived in the Scottish Highlands. Laing was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1936. He grew up during World War II and experienced the Battle of Britain as young boy. He attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and served with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers as a lieutenant in Ireland and Germany. He soon realized that the military was not what he was looking for and attended Saint Martin's School of Art in London. At the beginning of the 1960s, while still at Saint Martin's, Laing was introduced to artists in New York City. He met Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Rosenquist and Robert Indiana. After art school he moved there, and with his connections, his art career began to take off. Laing's career took him from the avant-garde world of 1960s pop art, through minimalist sculpture, followed by representational sculpture and then back full circle to his pop art roots. In 1993 the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh staged a retrospective exhibition of his work. In 2012 Sims Reed Gallery staged an exhibition of his prints and multiples, his most comprehensive show of work to date. Laing did a series of anti-war paintings, based primarily on photographs from the atrocities at Abu Ghraib. These paintings were the beginning of his return to pop art. They were followed in 2004 by a series of Amy Winehouse paintings, as well as a painting of Victoria Beckham and Kate Moss. On 19 February 2012 a bronze sculpture by Laing, Dreamer, was stolen from Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow. In February 2014, Laing's Brigitte Bardot painting from 1963 work sold for £902,500 in an auction at Christie’s in London, a record sum for the artist.
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