SELECTED WORKS BY Karla Black
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Karla Black
Expressions are hurting, move outside (and details)
2008
Cellophane, sellotape, petroleum jelly, paint, plaster powder, glass, polythene bags, concealer stick, lipgloss, hair conditioner, bath cream, tracing paper, glitter hair spray, lipstick.
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Karla Black
Forget About Faces (and detail)
2008
Cling film, body moisturizing creams, sellotape, paint
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Karla Black
Causes Bend
2007
Plaster, sugar paper, chalk, fabric dye, towel.
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Karla Black
Walk Away From Gilded Rooms
2008
Polythene, chalk dust, thread. Installation detail.
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Karla Black
Pleaser
2009
Cellophane, paint, sellotape, thread
250 x 200 cm |
 
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Karla Black
For Use
2009
Cellophane, sellotape, petroleum jelly, paint
15 x 356 x 300 cm |
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Karla Black
Unpreventable Within (and detail)
2009
Cling film, baby oil, paint
59 x 824 x 303 cm |
 
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Karla Black
Made To Wait
2009
Cellophane, sellotape, paint, toothpaste, hair gel, nail varnish, moisturising cream
304 x 748 x 3 cm |
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Karla Black
Nothing Is A Must
2009
Sugar paper, chalk, ribbon, lipstick, glitter hairspray
312 x 300 x 182 cm |
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Karla Black
Preventable Within
2009
Sugar paper, chalk, thread
149 x 144 x 25 cm |
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ARTIST INFORMATION
Karla Black's BIOGRAPHY
1972
Born in Alexandria, Scotland
Lives and works in Glasgow
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne West London Projects, London Mary Mary, Glasgow
2007
IBID Projects, London
2006
Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin
Mary Mary, Glasgow Outpost, Norwich Have Him Be Her, Broadway 1602, New York
2004
Mary Mary, Glasgow
2002
Robert, Glasgow Project Room
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London Strange Solution, Art Now, Tate Britain, London
2007
Ultramoderne, Hall Paul Wurth, Luxembourg; La Passerelle, BrestWhat remains. Quello che resta, Lambretto Art Project, Milan
Poor Thing, Kunsthalle Basel (curated by Simone Neuenschwander)
Special Presentation, Broadway 1602, New York Untitled - Works on Paper, Art:Concept, Paris Planting the tele, Mary Mary, Glasgow (Curated by Hayley Tompkins)
2006
Karla Black/Sally Osborn/Sue Tompkins, Flaca, London
Karla Black/Dean Hughes/Duncan Marquiss/Jonathan Owen/Hanneline Visnes, Doggerfisher, Edinburgh
2005
Pilot 2, London
Like It Matters, CCA, Glasgow Exile, New York is a Good Hotel, Broadway 1602, New York
Not Yet Night, Studio Voltaire, London
Karla Black/ Babak Ghazi, S1 Artspace, Sheffield
2004
Spacemakers, Lothringer Dreizehn, Munich MFA Degree show, Tramway, Glasgow Rheinschau Art Projects, Cologne (with Transmission) Synth, Kunstraum B/2, Leipzig
Cheyney Thompson/Karla Black, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
2003
Pallas, The Changing Room Gallery, Stirling
East International, Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art & Design (curated by Toby Webster & Eva Rothschild) An American Conversation (with Alex Frost), Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee
2002
The Châteaux, Switchspace, Glasgow Half the World Away, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York
2001
Man Dancing, Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow October: Contemporary Art in St. Vincent Street, GlasgowHi-Civics, Market Gallery, Glasgow
2000
Louder than Love, De Zeyp, Brussels
Someone, Somewhere…., Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow
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Other artists in SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME: EUROPEAN SCULPTURE
David Batchelor | Karla Black | Berlinde de Bruyckere | Peter Buggenhout | Steven Claydon | Bjorn Dahlem | Thomas Houseago | Jacob Dahl Jürgensen | Folkert De Jong | Ian Kiaer | Friedrich Kunath | Anselm Reyle | Silke Schatz | Dirk Skreber
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