Courtesy Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow

Clare Stephenson, "She-who-is-the-Unguarded moment" (2008). Xerox and collage on paper, 25 x 19 in.

Courtesy Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow

Alex Pollard, "Robin Hood Vortex" (2008). Oil on canvas, 42 x 39 in.

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If the psyches of Scottish artists Alex Pollard and Clare Stephenson were to duel, it would be a shadowy tableau in which Edward Gorey and Robin Hood clashed in a flurry of dandy elegance and muted psychedelic swirls. Stephenson’s wood-mounted screen prints of sleek, aristocratic figures are culled from images of Baroque and medieval sculpture. Pollard, one of four artists representing Scotland at the 2005 Venice Biennale, makes splashy paintings in which cavalier outlaws of days past are reworked through the lenses of the British faerie painter and loon Richard Dadd and the Baroque drapery master James Thornhill, albeit with plenty of distortion. The two artists, who share a Glasgow studio, each riff on historical sources to offer an enchanting trove of images that betray a longing for the sartorial grace and rebellious impulses of olde.

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"'The Dirty Hands'" originally appeared in the February 2009 issue of Modern Painters. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Modern Painters' February 2009 Table of Contents.