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Alan Uglow, (1941-2011), moved to New York City from London, England, in 1969. Called "a painter's painter" by Roberta Smith. Uglow also created objects, sound and visual installations, and in the 1980s, played bass in the band Hard Labour. He died January 20, 2011, in Manhattan, at age sixty-nine, from complications related to lung cancer.

Career
[[File:Alan Leicester.jpg|left|thumb|Uglow (l) with fellow students, Davis Holmes and Emrys Parry. Leicester, 1962 (Photographer unknown).
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United Kingdom

Alan Uglow attended Leicester College of Art, in his early teens. While a student there, he saw an exhibition titled, "The New American Painting," Tate Gallery, London, (1959), a show of American Abstract Expressionism, about which he later commented, "[At seventeen], I wasn’t sure I understood everything I was seeing, but I knew they would understand everything I was trying to do." After Leicester, Uglow went on to Central School, London, in painting and printmaking. After finishing art school, Uglow’s work was included in “Young Contemporaries” (London, 1960/64), “Bradford Spring Exhibition” (1963/64), Grabowski Gallery, (London, 1965), and “Contemporary British Painters,” (Lyon, France, 1966). New York Uglow visited New York for three weeks, in 1968, moving there permanently, in 1969. He soon met fellow painters Jake Berthot, Brice Marden, and Winston Roeth; in the early 1970s, Uglow and Roeth printed for Petersburg Press. In 1974, Uglow moved from his loft on Greene Street to one on the Bowery, where he lived and worked until his death in 2011*.

In 1975, Uglow's work was in the Whitney Biennial. The year before and the year after the Biennial, his work was included in group shows at Bykert Gallery, run by Klaus Kertess. After Kertess left Bykert, Uglow showed with Mary Boone in her opening group show (1978), and had his first one-person shows in New York (1978, '79). He later showed with Lorence-Monk Gallery, (1985-1990), and Stark Gallery (1993-2002). It was at Lorence-Monk that Uglow first exhibited his "low rider" paintings, as well as Signals, (1988), a four-panel piece, with sound, first shown in Amsterdam, as part of "Century '87." At Stark, Uglow showed another sound piece, his football-inspired, Coach's Bench. Beginning in 1992 and continuing throughout 2009, Uglow made a series of paintings, titled Standards. All are 7' x 6' (214 x 183 cm); all are installed on wooden blocks. In 2013, Uglow's work was shown posthumously in a solo exhibition at David Zwirner, curated by Bob NicNickas.

* In 1986 and 1992/93, Uglow lived in Cologne.

[[File:Alan Uglow in Koln.jpg|left|thumb|Alan Uglow, Cologne, 1992.                                              Photo: Dietmar Schneider
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Europe Solo exhibitions: Sweden: Galerie Nordenhake, (Malmö, 1983); Galerie Nordenhake, (Stockholm, 1987; 1991;1993); Ars Nova Galleri, (Gothenburg, 1994). Germany: Raum für Malerei, (Cologne, 1984; 1986); Galerie Rolf Ricke, (Cologne, 1987); Koelnischer Kunstverein, (Cologne, 1992); Galerie Schneiderei, (Cologne, 1992); Galerie Sophia Ungers, (Cologne, 1993; 1994), Galerie Anselm Dreher, (Berlin, 1995); Galerie Bela Jarzyk, (Cologne, 1996); Galerie Griedervonputtkammer, (Berlin, 2001); Galerie Nordenhake, (Berlin, 2006); Galerie Michael Sturm, (Stuttgart, 2006); Museum Haus Esters, (Krefeld, 2010); Museum Wiesbaden (2010); Bischoff Projects, (Frankfurt am Main, 2013). Netherlands: Galerie Onrust, (Amsterdam, 1988; 1989; 1992; 1994; 1996; 2000; 2003; 2007; 2010); Gemeentemuseum (The Hague, 2004). Denmark: Galleri Tommy Lund, (Copenhagen, 1994; 1995). Iceland: Second Floor Exhibition Space (Reykjavik, 1994). Switzerland: Galerie Bob von Orsouw, (Zurich, 1996). Belgium: Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art (CCNOA), (Brussels, 2006).

Uglow's work was also shown in various two-person and group exhibitions.