GOMA, Glasgow until
October 20th
Four stars
Six artists, buddied up
into duos across three rooms, draw from their very singular world-views in
terms of drawing, somehow finding a through line running through them all. Both
Erica Eyes and Jonathan Owen draw from found images, Eyres copying from
photographs in 1970s naturist magazines, Owen’s ‘eraser drawings’ rubbing out movie
stars from classic film scenes, so all that is left is the background. Where
Owen’s images are existentially bereft, with Eyres, the joy comes, not through
sex, but the everyday mundanity of chilling in the pool, waking up and smelling
the roses and of barbecues in the sun.
France-Lise McGurn’s coloured
line drawings of bodies in motion bend, stretch and dance their way through the
frame with a classicist retro air. In Contrast, Lois Green's postcard-sized
black and white still lives peers surreptitiously into unoccupied but lived-in
rooms, where dirty dishes and rumpled bedclothes have been left in haste. Only
in two pieces is that gaze returned, peering out onto trees or a river at dusk.
Gregor Wright’s digital
drawings on large flat screen TVs leant against the wall are dreamy collages of
pink-hued worlds, where triangles, moons and all-angles shapes orbit around
each other into some fifth dimension. His sole crayon drawing does likewise. Ross
Hamilton Frew’s opaque amalgams of word and image are reimagined from
secondhand books, their grey shapes resembling modernist album covers while
words pulled out at random form evocative Zen-noir narratives sketch out what
probably won’t be the last word on pen, ink and everything inbetween.
The List, May 2019
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