Andrew Kerr
"Away with Nora"
Opening: Saturday, November 7, 2015, 6–9 pm
Exhibition: November 10 – December 19, 2015
From 7th of November to 19th of December 2015, BQ presents Andrew Kerr’s fourth solo show at the gallery.
Andrew Kerr’s recent small-scale acrylic paintings on paper are settled in the uncertain sphere somewhere between abstraction and figuration. At first sight, they seem to represent concrete objects, but a closer look reveals minimal discrepancies that thwart any attempt to identify the depicted. For instance, continuous overpainting defamiliarises the represented – not beyond recognition but only until it appears dissimilar while still bearing remembrance with its essential being.
Also the interrelation of the different works of the exhibition is characterised by a certain instability. Their arrangement could make up a complete picture, a pattern or at least a structure, if the beholder’s constructing view were not confused by disruption and inconsistencies. This erratic relationship of things, incline levels of meaning, and our frequent misconceiving perception is
echoed by the whole installation; mostly, the works are not pinned onto the wall but attached by means of unstable supports, such as old wood ledges. With the addition of this sculptural aspect, the medium of painting in general is being rendered dissimilar to itself.
Andrew Kerr (born 1977) lives and works in Glasgow. His works are exhibited regularly in international solo and group shows at museums and galleries, such as The Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo (2015), The Modern Institute, Glasgow, and Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago (2014), The Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (2013), The Inverleith House, Edinburgh (2011), or Kunsthalle Bremerhaven (2009).
