Sex Club

Glasgow International , 2021

Uncover hidden layers of Glasgow history through three-person exhibition, Sex Club. Artists Erika Silverman, Raymond Strachan, and Debbie Young, whose diverse practices span painting, sculpture, film and textiles, aim to draw out some of the building’s past narratives, partly still visible if you look closely enough.
Sex Club takes place at 40 Fox Street a handsome stone building that has housed some notorious recent tenants. In the early 2000s there was a private college accused of false advertising (the sign is still visible outside). Then there was a private members’ club. The exhibition provokes discussion about sex, public health, queer spaces, kinks and intimacy within an urban context. Entry is via 86 Maxwell Street previously home to Legs and Co. strip club.

Deep Throat

Radiophrenia, CCA
19 November 2020 @ 9:30 pm - 10:00 pm

A woman looking for a deeper connection beyond sex (bells ringing and bombs going off), which becomes a hollow search and is repeatedly coerced into sex.  A doctor's visit sheds light on her anatomical blessing and curse. Eventually she is able to find love but still only as the object of male desire.
This sound piece is a linear edit of Deep Throat without the visuals and explicit sex scenes.  It is not to censor but to investigate the questionable story line, the (false) autonomy of Linda Lovelace and the film’s background of rape in a ubiquitous pop culture relic.  

One

Night

Stand

40 Fox Street
19 - 20 April
Artist. Mix-media, Open Studio Show wit Debbie Young, Raymond Strachan, and Thom Clark.

A showcase of recent works and initial research of the building, new works and new methods

The Most

Expensive

Cupboard

 

Old School House, Dornoch Street, Glasgow

SID YOUNG proudly invites you to the opening of The Most Expensive Cupboard in Glasgow. The exhibition explores the condition of contemporary artist facing the opposition of free creative expression and the restrictions of profit driven art world.
We build up exhibitions using our own money and time, not expecting anything in return. Why? What does this do to our self-esteem, mental health, friendships?
Artists participating:
Wessel Baarda, Alex Burch, Katy Hundertmark, Cathleen Owens, Katerina Sidorova, Erika Silverman, Ruth Switalski, Suyong Yang
Curated by:
Debbie Young

opaque couché
printed silk

'What I do, and I know all smokers do this. You know how every cigarette pack has a different surgeon general's warning on it, how cool. Mine say, "Smoking may cause fetal injury or premature birth." ...fuck it. I found my brand. Just don't get the ones that say, "Lung Cancer," ya know, shop around. Hell gimme a carton of them Low Birth Weights. What the fuck do I care? 'Why you so down Bill?' Low Birth Weight. Yeah, I'm smokin' way too many Low Birth Weights.'
-Bill Hicks

A statement piece about the battles between: plain packaging and government intervention vs consumer choice and intellectual property; luxury vs rubbish; the grotesque vs the norm.

Available to purchase:
Large Tapestry (56inx28in) = £100.00
Small Tapestry (28inx14in) = £50.00
Small Single Warning of your choice (10inx7in) = £25.00
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Looming

Opening 13 July
14th-26th July, Cass Art

A swamp of knots and wool.

Skins and bodies dipped into an accidental dye bath, shifting towards form, terrain and legibility. Glitched, photocopied knitting accommodates the spillage. Swamp cape, swamp mask, all of the residue of the hands creating ornamentation and embellishment.

A broken screen: jarring and uncanny. The machine-made black mirror becomes unlucky and ominous. The pixelated crystallised threads are revealed through the layered glitches and multiple textures.

The warp threads are pulled vertically and tightly across a screen. The weft is then woven horizontally over and under and over and under binding, bending and blending. The handmade process tugs and warps. Threads break. Stitches skipped. Small fissures and larger cracks layer; create texture.

How to _

Better

How to _____ Better is an exhibition in Glasgow’s Southside as part of GY Open House Arts Festival (27th - 30th April, 2018)

How to Work Better (1991) is a well-known work by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss. It consists of a ten-point manifesto that the artists found, enlarged, and had painted on the side of a building in Zurich

Their instructions are meant as a self-motivating reminder and description of their own process as artists, but are also directed to the rest of the world as a propositional code of conduct or ethic of behaviour

We invite local artist to respond to the prompt How to _____ Better, by completing the blank with a work of their own. We aim to communicate the voices, practices, ideologies and attitudes of Glasgow, exploring the many faces of the local. The concept is more a continuing question rather than an answer. It encourages experimentation and disruption, championing the artistic practice above even the final artistic output.

How to Fit Better
material: Leather belts
A site-specific installation that played with the conventions of home decor and clothing creating a subtle piece that nearly blends into the environment.