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Gerald Laing
Selected artist profile information(1936 - 2011)
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Exhibition HistoryNDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS1963 Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1964 Institute of Contemporary Art, London Richard Feigen Gallery, Los Angeles Feigen Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles 1965 Richard Feigen Gallery, New York Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago 1966 Richard Feigen Gallery, New York Kornblee Gallery, New York(Hybrid - a project with Peter Philips) 1967 Richard Feigen Gallery, New York 1969 Richard Feigen Gallery, New York Gallerie M.E. Thelen, Essen Pennsylvania State Uiniversity 1970 Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh 1971 Multiples Gallery, New York Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Cincinnati Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio Aspen Institute for Hymanistic Studies, Colorado 1973 Arthur Tooth & Sons, London University of New Mexico Art Museum, Allbuquerque 1977 Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York 1978 Gladsone Court, Edinburgh Festival 1979 Max Hutchinson Gallery, Houston Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York 1980 Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh 1981 Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton 1982 Bacardi Gallery, Miami 1983 Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry Joanne Lyon Gallery, Aspen 1987 Albert Totah Gallery, New York 1989 Scottish Gallery, London Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh 1993 Independent Gallery, London Harris Gallery, Houston 1994 Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London 1996 Whitford Fine Art, London 1999 The Fine Art Society, London 2000 Fine Art Society (Graphics) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Biography / CV1936 - Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne1953/55 - Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst 1955/60 - Royal Northumberland Fusiliers 1960/64 - St. Martins School of Art, London 1964/69 - Lived and worked in New York 1965 - Artist in residence at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, Colorado 1969/70 - Established Tapestry Workshop at Kinkell Castle which operated until 1975 1972 - Artist in residence at the Aspen Centre for the Visual Arts, Colorado 1976/77 - Visiting Professor of Painting and Sculpture at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 1978 - Established bronze foundry at Kinkell Castle with the assistance of the late George Mancini 1983/87 - Taught sculpture at Columbia University, New York 1987-98 - Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Acquisitions / CollectionsMAJOR PUBLIC COMMISSIONS1971 Callanish at Strathclyde University, Glasgow 1979 The Frieze of the Wise and Foolish Virgins, Edinburgh 1981 The Fountain of Sabrina, Broad Quay House, Bristol 1989 The Conan Doyle Memorial, Picard Place, Edinburgh 1990 Axis Mundi, Tanfield House, Edinburgh 1994 Ten Dragons, Bank Underground Stations, London 1995 Four Rugby Players, Twickenham Stadium, Middlesex 1996 Portrait Bust of Sir Paul Getty KBE, The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square 1997 The Wormsley Cricketer 1999 Fire Icon, Bluewater, Dartford, Kent 1999 The Glass Virgins, Edinburgh 2000 The Sundial, Wormsley, Buckinghamshire 2001 The Batsman, MCC, Lord's Ground, London 2001 Glengarry Memorial, Armdale, Skye 2003 Falcon Square Mercat Cross, Inverness | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Public WorksThe National Gallery, LondonThe Tate Gallery, London The National Portrait Gallery, London The Victoria and Albert Museum, London The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edin Glasgow Art Gallery Glasgow Royal Infirmary The Scottish Art Council The Standard Life Assurance Company, Edinburgh Inverness Museum Broad Quay House, Bristol The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Smithsonian Institute, Washington The Minneapolis Institute of Art The Indianapolis Museum The Denver Museum Gelsenkirchen Museum, Germany Nagaoka Museum, Japan The Government of Sierra Leone The Universities of New York, Harvard, Brandeis, Cornell, Denver, New Mexico, Puerto Rico, Aberdeen, Strathclyde and others | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publications / Media / BibliographyPUBLICATIONSGerald Laing, Kinkell: The Reconstruction of a Scottish Castle, DMT 42 (with Galina Golikova), 1967, pub. Editions Domberger, Stuttgart Duke City Realty (with Galina Golikova), 1973, pub Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Albequerque, NM Latimer New Dimensions, London. 1974: and Arduille House, Scotland, 1985 BIBLIOGRAPHY Aaron Scharf, Creative Photography, ed. John Lewis, Studio Vista, London, 1965 Mario Amaya, Pop as Art, Studio Vista, London, 1965 Lucy Lippard, Pop Art, Frederick A. Prager, New York, 1966 Aldo Pellegrini, New Tendencies in Art, Crown Publishing Company, New York, 1966 Alan Weller, Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1967 Sandra Pinto and Pio Manzu, Nuove Tecniche D'Immagine, Alfieri edizioni d'Arte, Venice, 1967 Christopher Finch, Image as Language, Penguin, London, 1969 Alastair Mackintosh, Gerald Laing Retrospective, SNGMA, Edinburgh, 1971 William Peterson, Artspace - Southwestern Contemporary Arts Quarterly, Artspace, Albuquerque, 1976-77 Michael Compton, Pop Art, Hamlyn Publishing Group, London and New York, 1970 Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi and John McCoubrey, The Highway, ed. Stephen S. Prokopoff, Institute of Contemporary Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1970 Edward Lucie Smith, Art Now, eds Mariella de Battisti and Marisa Mellis, William Morrow & Co. Inc.. New York, 1977 Douglas Hall, Sculpture at the Edinburgh Festival 1978, Gerald Laing, Kinkell, 1978 Gerald Laing, Gerald Laing: Paintings and Sculpture 1963-83. ed. P.A.E. Day, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, 1983 W.I. Strachan, Open Air Sculpture in Britain, A. Zwemmer Ltd in assoc. with Tate Gallery Publications, London, 1984 The Tate Gallery Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions 1982-84, Trustees of the Tate Gallery, London, 1986 Babette Peters, Produktionsasthetische Probleme zeit genossicher schottischer Bildhauerei, ed. Peter Lang, Frankfurtam-Maine, 1986 Marco Livingstone, Pop Art: A Continuing History, Thames and Hudson, London, 1990 Wendy Kaplan (ed.), Scotland Creates: 5000 Years of Art and Design, Weidenfeld and Nicholson et al. London, 1990 Fiona Pearson (ed.), Virtue and Vision: Sculpture and Scotland, 1540-1990, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1991 David Mellor, The Sixties Art Scene in London, Phaidon Press in assoc. with Barbican Art Galleries, London 1990 Eugene Rosenberg, Architect's Choice - Art in Architecture in Great Britain since 1945, Thomas & Hudson 1992 Laurent Gervereau and David Mellor, 'les Sixties' Musee D'Histoire Contemporain, Paris, 1996 Ed. Francisco Capelo, 'The Berardo Collection' Sintra Museum of Modern Art Portugal, 1996 Cultural Offensive. John A Walker, Pluto Press, 1998 Pop Art US/UK Connections 1956-1966. David Brauer, Jim Edwards and others. Menil Collection, Houston 2001, pub. Hatje Cantz Pop Impressions Europe/USA. Wendy Weitman, Museum of Modern Art, New York 2002, pub. Harry N Abrams Art and Celebrity, John A Walker, Pluto Press 2003 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Price Range of WorkGerald Laing's work has a price range from £13340 to £17500. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mediums utilisedGerald Laing's work is found in the following materials:Bronze | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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