Alan Uglow

Alan Uglow (19 Jul 1941–20 Jan 2011) was a British visual artist who moved from London to New York City in 1969. Called "a painter's painter" by Roberta Smith, in addition to his paintings, Uglow made objects, sound-and-visual installations, photographs, and prints. He died in Manhattan at age sixty-nine from complications related to lung cancer.

Career

United Kingdom

Starting in his early teens, Uglow attended Colchester School of Art, followed by Leicester College of Art. While at Leicester, he saw an exhibition titled "The New American Painting," a show of American Abstract Expressionism, at Tate Gallery, London (1959).

From the 1970s onwards, Uglow was included in numerous group shows in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe.

Europe and Scandinavia

Alan Uglow’s first one-person show, outside the United States, was in 1983 at Galerie Nordenhake, founded by Claes Nordenhake, in Malmö, Sweden. Uglow continued to show with the gallery in Malmö and Stockholm, and in Berlin, Germany; his final show with Galerie Nordenhake was in 2006, in Berlin.

In 1984, Uglow showed “Signal,” a structured, two-part painting, as well as one other discrete painting, at Gunther Umberg's Raum für Malerai (Room for Painting), Cologne, Germany.

Beginning in 1988 through 2010, Uglow had an extended professional and personal relationship with Milco Onrust (1961–2015) and Boudi Eskens—who joined the gallery in 1992—showing initially with Galeri Onrust on the Prinsengracht and later in their space on Planciusstraat, Amsterdam, NL.

In 1986, 1992, and part of 1993, Uglow and his wife, the poet and writer Elena Alexander, lived in Cologne, Germany.