Artist-in-Residence
Derrick Guild
IN STUDIO
Thursday, May 28, 2009 through
Saturday, June 20, 2009
ON EXHIBIT
Thursday, May 28, 2009 through
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Artist-in-Residence
Derrick Guild
Born in 1963 in Perth, Scotland, Derrick Guild received a BA degree and his Post Graduate Diploma from Duncan of Jordanston College of Art and Design, Dundee.
His paintings and objects reference European still life of the 15th to the 19th centuries. The drama, allegory, and naturalism inherent in this period speak of dilemmas in the human condition. By juxtaposing objects or presenting them individually, Guild is referencing ideas of love, loss, religion, beauty, geo-politics, colonialism, humor, longing, death, absurdity, and decay. His works are classical, formal, and at the same time contemporary in their sense of dislocation and ambiguity.
Guild has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the United States, including the following solo shows: “Sense is Hard” at the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness. Orkney, 1999; “Picnic Hamper for Heaven” at Perth Museum, Scotland, 2007; and “Bread Paintings,” 2000 and “Pre-Ascension,” 2007 at the Allan Stone Gallery, New York.
Group shows include “Food for Thought,” 1999 at the New Jersey Centre for the Visual Arts; “Blind Sight” at the Titanic Gallery, Turku, Finland, and “Guilding the Summertown,” 2005, at RSA Projects, Edinburgh, Scotland.
He has been the recipient of many awards, including the Maude Gemmell Hutchison Award RSA, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Award, and the Villiers David Foundation Award.
Having taught at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee since 1992, Guild is currently residing and working on the Island of Ascension in the South Atlantic.
Solo Exhibitions (through 1990)
2007
Picnic Hamper for Heaven, Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Perth, Scotland
Pre-Ascension, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Bread Paintings, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
1997
Choice Bread, Paton Gallery, London, England
Sense is Hard, Pier Art Centre, Stromness, Orkney, Scotland
1996
Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
1994
Paton Gallery, London, England
Selected Group Exhibitions (through 1990)
2005
Doctor Skin, Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Perth, Scotland
2004
Guilding the Summer Town, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
Blind Sight, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
2003
Animals, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
Talent 2003, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
Albatross, Gallery Stzuki, Wosnia, Poland
Contemporary Scottish Art, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Blind Sight, Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland Art Space Titanik, Turku, Finland
2002
Group Show, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
1999
Fruits & Flowers, Skies & Pies, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
Food for Thought, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
1998
Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
Food for Thought, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
1997
Tribes Gallery, New York, NY
Paton Gallery, London, England
1995
Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
1994
Art 94, Business Design Centre, London, England
Paton Gallery at the Economist, London, England
Stimulants, Frances Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, Scotland
Baltic Day Exhibition, Discovery Point, Dundee, Scotland
Bringing in the New, McManus Galleries, Dundee, Scotland
A Feast for the Eyes, Long and Ryle Contemporary Art, London, England
Edward Summerton and Derrick Guild, Oban Distillery, Oban, Argyll, Scotland
1993
Inaugural Exhibition, Paton Gallery at London Fields, London, England
Scottish Figurative Painting, Long and Ryle Contemporary Art, London, England
The Decade Show, Collins Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, Scotland
Summer Show, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
Paton Gallery, London, England
Northlands, St. Fergus Gallery, Wick, Scotland; traveled to Swanson Gallery, Thurso, Scotland and the Iona Gallery, Kingussie, Scotland
The Return of the Cadavre Exsquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
1992
The New Decade II, Paton Gallery, London, England
Long and Ryle Contemporary Art, London, England
Paton Gallery, London, England
The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, Scotland
The Decade, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, Scotland and Barrack Street Museum, Dundee, Scotland
1991
New Art from Scotland, Kings Manor Gallery, The University of York, York, UK
The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, Scotland
Paton Gallery (two-person show with Stuart MacKenzie), London, England
A View of the New, the Royal Overseas League, London, England
The New Decade I, Paton Gallery, London, England
1990
Four Scottish Painters, Barbizon Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Warwick Arts Centre, The University of Warwick, Coventry, England
New Faces 3, Paton Gallery, London, England
Two Scottish Artists, The Barbizon Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Paton Gallery, London, England
The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, Scotland
