Goss Michael Foundation

The Goss-Michael Foundation will premiere a new exhibition by prominent artist Jim
Lambie. The exhibition will open to the public on Thursday, April 7, and continue through
September 3, 2011.

The Goss-Michael Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing a forum
for British contemporary art by presenting exhibitions, programs and resources to educate,
engage and inspire youth and adult audiences in Texas, the United States and around
the world. Earlier exhibitions have featured Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Tim Noble and Sue
Webster, Sarah Lucas, Marc Quinn and Michael Craig-Martin.

For this exhibition, the front gallery space has been taken over and transformed by
Zobop, one of Lambie’s famous floor pieces, which has been devised in relation to the
architecture of the gallery space. The colorful floor is made from vinyl tape, and the
process by which Lambie’s floor-works are made is highly physical and labor-intensive,
taking up to several weeks to complete. He refers to these works as sculptures, equating
them with his more conventionally sculptural pieces and suggesting that they serve in an
equivalent way to occupy and transform space.

Lambie’s playful use of everyday objects and strong musical references has grown to
become his signature mark as an artist. Many of his titles frequently refer to iconic bands
and song lyrics. The Doors, Morrison Hotel (2005), which consists of several doors
reconstructed into one large zigzagging pink door, and Careless Whisper (2009), which
depicts the 1984 collaged image of The Goss-Michael Foundation co-founder George
Michael, are perfect examples of the themes and wordplay recurring in his work.

Lambie has discussed the relationship between the tape works and the solid objects they
incorporate in terms of a jazz ensemble, comparing the tape to the “baseline played by
the drums and bass” and the pieces placed on top to the “guitar and vocals.” With
Lambie, musical sources and inspirations are never hard to discern. His visual, as well as
verbal, vocabulary often borrow from music, as when he describes the 1960s and ‘70s
junk he uses in his work as having “a universal resonance.”

Born in Glasgow in 1964, Jim Lambie studied at the Glasgow School of Art, and he
continues to live and work in his hometown. He has exhibited worldwide with several solo
exhibitions including in 2008 at the Glasgow Museum of Modern Art, Glasgow; the Hara
Museum, Tokyo; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and in 2007 at the Hirschhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. He has also participated in numerous
group shows, including The New Décor, Hayward Gallery, London, 2010; Color Chart:
Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, MOMA, New York, 2008; and Unmonumental: The
Object in the 21st Century, New Museum, New York, 2007. In 2004, he participated in the
54th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, and represented
Scotland at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. Voidoid, the first comprehensive
monograph on the artist, was published in 2004, and Lambie was nominated for The
Turner Prize in 2005.

GOSS MICHAEL FOUNDATION

The Goss-Michael Foundation
2500 Cedar Springs Road
Dallas, TX
214.696.0555
Hours: Tuesday-Friday 10:00am-6:00pm,
Saturday 11:00am-4:00pm, Monday by appointment only.

gossmichaelfoundation.org

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JIM LAMBIE
April 7, 2011through September 3, 2011

Jim Lambie - Careless Whisper, 2009
Collage with oil painting and printed poster
24 ¼ x 17 ½ x 1 ¼ inches
Copyright the artist, Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London

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