MASIMODECARLO declares illustration of Scottish painter France-Lise McGurn. The Glasgow-born artist can have her first solo exhibition on the gallery in autumn 2024.
McGurn’s figurative work are sometimes impressed by movie stills from the Seventies. Janus Fetish magazines, Botticelli prints and movie star autographs are characterised by fast calligraphic strokes. All through her work, she emphasised the human kind, typically depicting girls in fluid colours. The affect of Glasgow’s post-industrial aesthetic is clear in her artwork, which regularly options repetitive traces and actions paying homage to antiquity.
A defining high quality of McGurn’s follow is her progressive use of exhibition area. In her exhibitions, work typically prolong from canvas to partitions, flooring and furnishings. This strategy transforms a gallery and even artwork truthful sales space into an immersive expertise that invitations viewers to step contained in the art work.
McGurn was born in 1983. He obtained his portray training on the Royal Faculty of Artwork in London and took part in an alternate program at Hunter Faculty of Artwork. Her work has additionally been exhibited at prestigious establishments comparable to Tate Britain in London. Her work are in a number of public collections, together with the Tate Gallery, the Hill Artwork Basis and the Stiftung Kunsthaus-Sammlung Pasquart in Biel, Switzerland.
