Echo and Transcend
Date: 22 November 2008– 21st February 2010
Space: Gallery 1

Exhibition of a wide range of abstract artworks, some of which reflected the visible world, and others which went beyond the material representation of real life. It explored the two concepts with examples drawn from Glasgow’s own collections, supplemented with a few important loans. The title, Echo and Transcend, is intended to locate abstraction in relation to “reality”.

Artists: Jankel Adler, Andrew Bick, Anthony Caro, Alan Davie, William Gear, Juan Gris, John Houston, William McCance, John McLean, Victoria Morton, Ben Nicholson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Bridget Riley, Jon Schueler, Gavin Scobie, Ettore Scottsass, Graham Sutherland, John Tunnard, William Turnbull, Bryan Wynter

Links:
• ‘Art review: Echo and Transcend | The Two Alasdairs’, The Scotsman, 18 December 2009
• Neil Cooper, ‘Echo and Transcend’, The List, 22 January 2009