Gary Rough
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Untitled, 2007
Born: 1972, Glasgow
Based: New York
Represented by: Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
Born in Glasgow in 1972, Rough studied for a BA and MFA at Glasgow School of Art between 1991 and 1998. A former member of Glasgow art group Filthy Swan, Rough now lives and works in New York. Recent exhibitions include a touring show with the Hayward Gallery, London, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, PS.1 MoMA, New York, Bloomberg Space, London, Fergus McCaffrey Fine Art, New York and Yvon Lambert, Paris.
Executed with a Caledonian swagger and an epigrammatic wit, Rough’s mixed media bricolage appear as a memory shelf to a boy’s own adventure in psychogeography. Recently, Rough’s cartographic endeavours have been made manifest in neon. While more timourous artists may steer clear of such loaded media, Rough is unafraid, brusquely borrowing lightbulbs from Flavin and changing them with tatooed knuckles. Elsewhere, t-shirts and scratched musings appear as emblems of the artist’s psyche, revealing a jocular game plan and a roguish confidence.
