Laith mcgregor biography of albert

Laith McGregor's blue-Bic portraits have, for years, been distinctive for their quick-witted, humoured mode of characterisation. Reappraising the practice of portraiture, McGregor's new work searches for figuration, and narrative, across new media and genres.

For &#;Tall Tale,&#; at STATION Gallery, McGregor traces new conceptual horizons outwards from his established drawing practice, without losing sight of his sustained interests in storytelling and characterisation.

In his work, text and pattern have become methods of figuration in themselves: paths of access to the minds, or the stories, of the subjects of McGregor&#;s portraits. These most recent works search for character, subjectivity, and personal narrative in places of yet further abstraction.

McGregor&#;s most recent drawings reposition the project of portraiture within a trans-generic framework.

Laith mcgregor biography of albert einstein Visiting Laith at this space when I photographed him for this article, he mentioned that he had recently installed a piece in the gallery space, that he would leave hanging for the first month of his residency. Untitled Fold archival pigment print mounted on dibond. I met Laith through my long time close friend and his now-wife Kylee. To find Laith at the very centre of all of it, no matter what shade, form, or period the work is from, isn't spawned from unchecked narcissism, rather it feels very rooted in a humbling curiosity of all he comes into contact with and everything in life he feels genuinely moved by, its honest and open and inviting.

When we turn our gaze toward the &#;subject,&#; in this work, we might usefully look to the glints of landscape which appear, and then shrink back from us, in intricate &#;backgrounds.&#; In Keeper (), for instance, a head lain sideways on its hard-slated cheek is connected to ambiguous symbols &#; a perfect, blinding white circle, what looks to be a coffee pot turned on its own head &#; through a thick network of branches.

These branches themselves recede, in laced softness, into non-representational patterns; what story is to be read through this field of information, which stretches across portraiture, landscape, and putatively non-signifying pattern?

Figuration operates across media, as well, in this work. Ceramic vessels are laden with symbolic potential.

Vessel (Sympathy) (), is soft, empathetic in its bulging middle, and tender in its downward-drooping handles. The vessel seems to gesture, or even to express an attitude as a face might. Clay is not mute, here, and nor must it really be nonhuman &#; indeed, it too might be able to render character, feeling, story.

Laith mcgregor biography of albert You might like to vary the time you allocate to each drawing or the way you apply your mark — for example it could be one continuous line or a series of small short lines. This candid discovery of yourself through art and creative expression, exposing the viewer to an unedited day-to-day flow of thoughts, ideas, and experiences, -if done with real honesty and authenticity, not only helps the work to build a direct connection with its audience, but it creates an added layer to the work. The first in the series: Ping Pong Paradise , was purchased pre-show by actor Orlando Bloom and is said to reside in his Los Angeles home. Filter by media, style, movement, nationality and activity period.

EXHIBTION
Laith McGregor: Tall Tale
27 February &#; 27 March
STATION Gallery, Melbourne