Karla Black

Born:
1972
Residence:
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Nationality:
British
Trust:
APT London
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PRESS & PUBLICATIONS

  • David Zwirner, an American contemporary art gallery, located in both London as well as New York City, will be participating in the Expo Chicago 2017 at Chicago's Navy Pier.

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • Sculptor’s studio and gardens to get a revamp including new archive and visitor centre.

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  • For the landmark 'Entangled: Threads and Making' exhibition at Turner Contemporary, Karen Wright played the double-role of curator, and 'international artist matchmaker'.

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  • From one of art’s greatest contemporary photographers to the rich cultural history of famous eruptions.

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  • Until relatively recently, women entering art schools tended to be steered automatically towards textile design, to immerse themselves in feminine pur

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  • Turner Contemporary puts making and materiality centre stage in a new exhibition. Entangled: Threads & Making is a major exhibition of sculpture, installation, tapestry, textiles and jewellery from the early 20th century to the present day.

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  • Scotland meets Japan and cotton wool meets wire as Edinburgh’s Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art brings together the work of Karla Black and Kishio Suga in an exhibition scheduled to run from October 22, 2016 until February 19, 2017.

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  • Inverleith House at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, Scotland, is closing its doors after thirty years, Phil Miller of Herald Scotland reports.

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • Jupiter Artland and Inverleith House make wonderful backdrops for exciting work, while the late Jo Spence’s art is as vital as ever.

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  • Christian Boltanski, Damián Ortega and Alice Neel impress in this year’s strongly international show, while Inverleith House celebrates in style.

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  • Modern Art Oxford presents “Kaleidoscope: Mystics and Rationalists” to celebrate the gallery’s 50 year anniversary in the world of contemporary visual art and culture.

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  • Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, the new outpost of international mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth, opened last weekend in a restored flour mill in Downtown Los Angeles’s Arts District, the latest in a slew of brand name galleries opening up shop on the West Coast. But unlike other new arrivals, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel is more than a newer, bigger location for the gallery, it represents a paradigm shift of what a commercial gallery can be and do.

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  • One afternoon a few weeks ago, the artist Karla Black was telling me all about toilet paper. “In the ’70s and ’80s there was a fashion for colored toilet paper when people had colored bathroom suites,” Black said, as we stood in one of David Zwirner’s many capacious galleries on West 19th Street. “It died out so it’s hard to get now.”

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  • The Royal Academy’s Richard Diebenkorn show operates on the basis that if he is known at all in Britain — and the publicity for and reviews of the show tended to assume that he isn’t — then it’s for his late Ocean Park series, named for the studio in which it was produced, as with all of his serial work.

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  • The cat was out of the bag seven hours before the announcement, when anyone with access to Twitter and an interest in art was able to find out,

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  • On Monday December 5 the Turner Prize judges will announce the winner of the controversial award, but will their choice reflect that of the gallery

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  • Tate and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art have announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for The Turner Prize 2011.

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  • All of this and nothing is the sixth in the Hammer Museum’s biennial invitational exhibition series, which highlights work of Los Angeles-based artists

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  • Tate Britain's new show proves there's more to watercolours than pallid sunsets, but where are the happy amateurs?

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  • Next month, the 2011 nominees for this year’s Turner Prize will go on show. Known to spark controversy annually, the contemporary art prize is often plagued by the question “But is it art?” To help sort out the debate before the exhibition opens and the judging commences (by jury and public opinion), MutualArt brings you an all-encompassing summary of the Turner Prize and 2011’s shortlisted artists.

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  • Tyneside's upbeat hosting of the UK's most-noticed arts prize - only the second outside London in the Turner's 27 years - sees 149,770 visit

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  • In the 15th-century Palazzo Pisani, Karla Black has made the kind of work that whets the appetite for the Turner prize, the award she is tipped to win

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  • The shadow of Barbara Hepworth may still loom large over female sculpture in Yorkshire.

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  • An exhibition of the works owned by the British art collector Charles Saatchi, on display in Adelaide, takes place in a post-Sensation world.

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  • You don't expect the curators of a major contemporary art show to start talking about the Bayeux Tapestry.

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  • This celebration of Scottish art from the last quarter century offers an absorbing variety of styles and mediums, says Alastair Sooke.

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  • The Frieze Art Fair is over. Time for the Turner Prize! This Friday the exhibition of the 2011 nominees

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BIOGRAPHY

Bad Thing

Lying on her side on the floor she stared at a cup. She thought about what had happened, and how it existed in the world now like an unchangeable and definite solid.

To begin with there had been no words, only the staring and a feeling that what had happened actually was the cup. By looking at it she got to know it. The cup could not be ignored or denied because there it was.

She eventually realised that if the bad thing that had happened had edges and could be looked at, then it must be separate from her and she must, therefore, be able to get away from it. She kept lying there looking, not used to it enough yet to leave it.

(Karla Black, Tollcross 111, Ed. Neil Bickerton, Neil Mulholland, Glasgow 2005)

Born in 1972 in Alexandria, Scotland, Karla Black lives and works in Glasgow. She has recently presented solo exhibitions at Capitain Petzel, Berlin (2016), David Zwirner, New York, NY (2016), Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg (2010), Modern Art Oxford, Oxford (2009), Migros Museum, Zurich (2009) and Mary Mary, Glasgow (2009). Her work has also been shown as part of “Nothing to say and I am saying it” at Kunstverein Freiburg (2009) and “Black Hole” at Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca (2009), and was also included in the 1st Brussels Biennial (2008), “Strange Solution”, Art Now at Tate Britain, London (2008) and “Poor Thing” at Kunsthalle Basel (2007).

Karla Black is represented by Galery Gisela Capitain, Cologne.


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