Auto Deco

Stan Buglass' exhibition, Auto Deco, presents paintings and sculpture that use found forms from the street to blur the line between abstraction and reality. These semi-abstract, rather semi-representational works echo commercial and industrial objects. They are undulating remnants and rejects of forgotten architecture and mechanical forms reorganised to become a remnant or ruin of what they once were, while becoming something else entirely. These precarious recollections of buildings and machines transport us to a realm of ageing infrastructure, where thick drops of glazed oil paint run down architectural facades and accumulate in crevices. Painting and sculpture work together to create a fragmented illusion of walls and passageways, suggesting a sense of human transience. Buglass shows us weathered man-made forms as remnants of the recent past, yet they appear to be objects of the future. Stan Buglass (b. 1999, London, UK) lives and works in London, UK, and Phoenix, USA. His work investigates new industrial materials and forms to offer a study of the manmade and our ever-changing relationship to the objects and ecologies that we create. Buglass combines the commercially made with a sense of human trace, through autographic markings on reanimated manufactured materials and surfaces. Recent exhibitions include; A Slash of Blue, Gerald Moore Gallery, 2023, Memories Of A Social Club That Doesn’t Exist, ZÉRUÌ, 2022, Silver Sunsets, Usual Business, 2022, Latent Traces, Changing Room Gallery, 2021 and Vestige Astray, 213 Kupfer, 2021, London. Buglass received his BA from Central Saint Martins, 2021, London. He is currently studying for his MFA in sculpture at Arizona State University, USA, and is due to be graduating in the summer of 2026. Buglass was also awarded a place on the Associate Studio Programme, upon graduating his BA, hosted by Double Agents and ACME, London.