Monica Lewinsky at the Theatre of Dionysus Cammisa Buerhaus
30.08.2017
A Tragic Comic Monologue
Written and Performed by Cammisa Buerhaus
Trying to make ends meet after losing everything at the White House, Monica Lewinsky decides to throw caution to the wind and take up a life as a bartender. Her first stop, the Theatre of Dionysus, a small pub in Glasgow’s Southside. She befriends a drunk patron and tells them her tale. But what is Monica’s story? A remake of Euripides' The Bacchae starring Monica Lewinsky as a Maenad, tells the story of Washington D.C. circa 1992 with fan fictional surprises.
Cammisa Buerhaus is a writer and performer based in NYC. Her film 'Private Lives' has been exhibited widely, most recently in an exhibition curated by Georgia Sagri in Athens, Greece. Recent performance work includes; a starring role in Richard Maxwell’s 'The Evening', Language for titre provisoire’s ‘Some Things In Common Perhaps’, and Cecilia Corrigan’s 'Motherland'. Other recent collaborations include the opera Justin Bieber Bathos Elegy with Felix Bernstein, and performance ensemble NYCDBOS with Kayla Guthrie and Martina Gordon.
Photography: David Excoffier
Rita McGurn
31.07.2017 - 27.08.2017
Celine is very excited to present works by Rita McGurn (1940-2015).
Privately McGurn worked prolifically, making paintings, drawings and sculptures. As such, and without a studio, the family home became an artwork in itself. Walls, carpets and furniture were transformed into paintings and sculptures, shoes painted leaopard skin matched the painted chairs and cupboards, the walls became murals, lights covered in tiny bottles and broken glass became chandeliers. Central to this inexhaustible and boundless practise, McGurn used crochet as a medium for 2 dimensional and 3 dimension art works creating tapestries, carpets, framed pieces, and figures, some of which are shown here. Selected in collaboration with McGurn's daughter France-Lise the work spans different periods of her life time and creates an installation which reflects the work she made for both public and domestic settings.
Rita Mcgurn was a self-taught artist and designer. She began work as an interior designer when she and her family moved to Zambia in the 60s. Upon returning to Glasgow she moved into production design on commercials and films. She continued to work in interior design for private residences and businesses, an example of which can be seen on the store front of Strawberry Fields, a children’s clothes shop on great western road. McGurn had several exhibitions throughout her life most recently at Iota gallery in partick. She was also commissioned to make the smokestack sculpture for the Twomax building in the Gorbals, which still stands and can be seen on the woman’s library tour of Glasgow.
With special thanks to Dani Metzstein, Martina Gormley, Monica McCarey and the McGurn family.
Photography: David Excoffier
Jonas Lipps
18.06.2017 - 15.07.2017
In collaboration with Melissa Canbaz, Celine is proud present an exhibition of new drawings and paintings by Berlin based artist Jonas Lipps.
Recent exhibitions include: Grieder Contemporary, Zurich (2016), LISZT, Berlin (2015), "Recent Drawings", at walks news, Berlin (2015), "Recent Drawings", at Paradise Garage, Los Angeles (2015).
Photography: David Excoffier
You, Telluric Thing – Marine Julié
20.05.2017 - 10.06.2017
Celine is pleased to present ‘You, Telluric Thing’, a solo show by French artist Marine Julié.
Julié’s work questions the masculine values which underpin historical narratives and monuments to glorious battles and great men which she struggles to identify with. The work presented depict transgressive authority figures through a pictorial language that references, traditional South Asian painting, Greek red-figure pottery and Egyptian hieroglyphics to subvert the aesthetic vocabularies that once articulated the very values she interrogates.
Marine Julié is based in Switzerland, her work has been shown in a number of exhibitions including Wunderkammer, Lausanne, Switzerland (2017) La fôret d’art Contemporain, Parc Régional des Landes, France (2016) Triennale d’Art Contemporain du Valais, Martigny, Switzerland (2015) La SAS, with Fabrice Gygi, Lausanne Switzerland (2014) Basis, Frankfurt, Germany (2013) Biennale d’Art Contemporain d’Anglet, France (2013).
Photography: David Excoffier
Jungle – Alexander James Pollard
20.04.17 - 13.05.17
Please join us for the opening of 'Jungle', an exhibition of new paintings by Alexander James Pollard.
Alexander James Pollard (b. 1977, Brighton, England) studied BA (Hons) Painting and Drawing at Glasgow School of Art from 1996-99, participating in an exchange program at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago in 1997.
His MPhil titled A Genealogy of Bad Painting – Legacies, Soft Objects and Networks was undertaken part-time from 2012-17 at Goldsmiths College, London. Pollard was a curator for two years at Transmission gallery, Glasgow between 1999 and 2001. In 2005 Pollard represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale. Other solo exhibitions include: Hot Lava, Project Room, Glasgow (2012); Collaborations, Sorcha Dallas Gallery, Glasgow (2010); Tea-Leaf Demeanour, Whitechapel Project Space, London (2008) and Black Marks, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh (2007). Group exhibitions include Counter Facture at Luhring Augustine, New York in 2007, the Santorini Biennale in 2012 and The Irregular Correct – New Art from Glasgow at the Fremantle Art Centre, Fremantle, Australia (2012). Pollard lives and works in London.
Photography: David Excoffier