> Alasdair Wallace - Soluble City: 6 November – 29 November 2008 AT Charlotte Street, London
Alasdair Wallace is a rare painter for our age. He is a brilliant technician, his works are sophisticated in terms of both their accessibility to the spectator, and the complexity of thought which lies behind them. A rare combination. "Bizarre, odd but subtle," is how the artist describes them and this is true, although the spectator might add ‘alluring' or ‘fascinating'. In a style that is characterized by a very tight and carefully orchestrated formal composition combined with an unusual density and richness of colour, Wallace creates what he calls "landscape inventions".
Wallace has trained in Glasgow, Dublin and Northern Italy, and the result of this work is ripe with ideas, sources and technical devices absorbed through these experiences. The work is powerful and alluring, and won him second prize in the Alasdair Gilchrist-Fisher Memorial Award in 1994, as well as a selection of exhibitions in England and Scotland.
Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery
28 Charlotte Street
Fitzrovia
London
W1T 2NA
Monday - Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday - 11 - 5.30