Yellow at 1103 – Glasgow
Zusammenströmen brings together new work by Dan Miller and Jack Gregory at Yellow 1103. Rendered through meticulous process, image and collage hover, recede and extend from the two-dimensional plane. Both Miller and Gregory are concerned with the sculptural possibilities of the drawn image.
Through drawing, painting and sculpture Miller discusses ideas of reproductive process and failure, drawing from a range of appropriated imagery and objects. Historical fascination and rigorous process underpin an investigation into the underlying surface tensions of material.
Adopting a detailed mechanical approach, two-dimensional works are interceded with a variety of collaged references questioning scale, appropriation and authorship. These assemblages are re-configured from one image to the next, blurring the line between original and facsimile. Floating without anchor, they mimic intangible monuments and mythical structures.
The largely geometric and abstracted structures in Gregory’s work show images suggestive of a forgotten land, confronting the viewer with an “alternative” reality. The opposed shapes are constructed with an emphasis on both labour and duration, repetitive marks remaining consistent throughout the series of drawings.
Drawing is fundamental to Gregory’s practice, evoking ideas of displacement and deferral. A repetitive codified visual language asserts itself, dispelling autonomy, willing ideas into existence through the construction of an abstracted landscape.
Dan Miller and Jack Gregory live and work in Glasgow.
Selected Works
