Andrew Grassie
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Andrew Grassie (born 1966) is a Scottish artist. He paints highly detailed and self-referential tempera on paper copies of photographs.
He was educated at St Martins School of Art and the Royal College of Art.[1]
His work of the late 1990s and early 2000s included tempera on paper studies of the gallery interior in which they were exhibited (1997),[2] and small copies of photographs of 1960s minimalist sculpture (2002).[3]
In 2004 he won a "Special Merit" award at the 23rd John Moores Painting Prize for his work The Making of the Painting, which shows the space in which he made the painting.[1] In 2005 he had a solo exhibition at Tate Britain, as part of the Art Now series. He exhibited tiny paintings of an imaginary "rehang" of works from the gallery.[4] To make the paintings Grassie moved the actual works to the exhibition space, photographed them, and then made copies of the photographs in tempera.[5]
His paintings have been praised for being "disorienting" and "melancholy",[5] and criticised for consisting of "bureaucratic ironies".[4]
His works are held in the collection of the Tate[6] and the United Kingdom Government Art Collection.[7]
[edit] References
- ^ a b liverpoolmuseums.org.uk
- ^ Neal Brown, From this moment on…, Frieze, March-April 1998.
- ^ Ken Johnson, ART IN REVIEW; Andrew Grassie -- Sculptures, The New York Times, July 12, 2002.
- ^ a b Jonathan Jones, Andrew Grassie, The Guardian, Monday June 6, 2005.
- ^ a b Laura Cumming, Pull up a chair, The Observer, Sunday May 8, 2005.
- ^ tate.org
- ^ gac.culture.gov.uk
