Jamie Dalglish Explained

Jamie Dalglish
Birth Name:James Parsons Dalglish
Birth Place:Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Nationality:American

James Parsons Dalglish[1] (born 1947) is an American abstract painter. He lives and works in New York City.[2]

Early life and work

Jamie Dalglish was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1947[3] and served in the navy from 1967 to 1969 on a submarine in the Vietnam War. In the early 1970s, he attended the Art Academy of Cincinnati and Rhode Island School of Design, where he studied video art. When Dalglish first moved to New York City in May 1974, he was a housemate of fellow RISD student David Byrne, who would later gain fame as lead singer of the band Talking Heads and as a solo musical artist.[4] [5]

In 1975, Dalglish finished a video art project that consisted entirely of interviews with fifteen of his artist friends talking with Byrne — with Byrne offscreen the entire time doing most of the talking. The point of the video wasn't what Byrne said, but the body language of the listeners. The name of the seven-and-a-half-hour video was "Talking Heads, a 7.5 hr Conversation Installation." Participants in the video included Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz, and artists Jeff Koons, Jeff Turtletaub, and Vito Acconci.[5] [6] [7] The video was exhibited in 1979 at The Kitchen in New York.[3] The full video appears to be lost, with only a few short excerpts having survived.[5]

In collaboration with guitarist and songwriter George Elliott, Dalglish created the short-lived rock performance group CONTAINER in 1979. The group consisted of a five-person band, with Dalglish as vocalist and lyricist, plus a 10-year-old female singer, dancers, and a film and video crew. A recording of their music has since been released on a CD. One of their songs, "Three Wishes", was recorded by Klaus Nomi on his 1982 album Simple Man.[8]

Dalglish began painting in the 1970s[9] and had his first art exhibition in 1979 in New York City.[3]

Later work

In the early 1990s, Dalglish originated the word "morphoglyph" to define his painting. He has explained that it "combines the word "morph", growing or changing forms (from Morpheus, the son of the god of sleep, the form of dreams) with the word "glyph", an incision or cryptograph – secret writing, the language of the soul. I think morphoglyphs provide abstract painting with a surface that seems to say, "art is the art of becoming art."[10] [11]

Dalglish received a 2006–2007 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant.[12] He has exhibited in galleries including OK Harris, Match artspace,[13] Barbara Braathen, and Florence Lynch. Dalglish's morphoglyphs have been cited by art writer Lee Klein, among the works of Jackson Pollock and David Reed, as part of the trans-filmic lead into the art of Hyper-texture.[14] He was included in the exhibition "I colori del rock," which ran in 2009, from January 29 through March 3, at Pavesi Fine Arts in Milan, Italy.[15]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
Selected group exhibitions
Video exhibitions

Grants

References

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Jamie Dalglish . invaluable.com. June 1, 2022.
  2. Web site: Jamie Dalglish - Artist Keywords and Quick Facts - Jamie Dalglish. askart.com. 2015-09-20.
  3. Web site: Information about Jamie Dalglish . morphoglyph.com. June 1, 2022.
  4. Bowman 2001, chapter 42.
  5. Web site: Schneider. Martin . Talking Head David Byrne's lost 'Talking Heads' video project from 1975. 28 August 2013 . dangerousminds.net . June 1, 2022.
  6. Bowman 2001, chapter 44.
  7. Web site: Video Artist - Talking Heads . morphoglyph.com . June 1, 2022.
  8. Web site: Musician - CONTAINER . morphoglyph.com . June 1, 2022.
  9. Web site: Jamie P. Dalglish - Artworks. Artnet. June 1, 2022.
  10. Web site: Castle. Frederick Ted . The Pure Abstractions of Jamie Dalglish. September 1997 . morphoglyph.com . June 1, 2022.
  11. Web site: Poetry by Jamie Dalglish . morphoglyph.com . June 1, 2022.
  12. Web site: Page Not Found | Pollock Krasner Image Collection. pkf-imagecollection.org. 2015-09-20.
  13. Web site: artnet.com Magazine Reviews - Weekend Update. artnet.com. 2015-09-20.
  14. Web site: Hypertexture - A Gathering of the Tribes. October 2006 . tribes.org. 2015-09-20.
  15. Web site: ARTE.GO - I colori del rock. Pittura americana dagli anni Cinquanta a oggi . 2013-06-25 . https://archive.today/20130628025738/http://www.arte.go.it/eventi/2009/e_0292.htm . 2013-06-28 . dead .

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