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Bortolami Gallery, New York, is hosting a group exhibition, titled 'University of Disasters, that will be on view through April 22, 2017.
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‘Jugband Blues’ (1968), the last song on the last album that Syd Barrett ever recorded with Pink Floyd, includes the line: ‘I’m wondering who could be
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"This is the art dealer. He sells the things that are good for you. Why not purchase art?" So reads a silkscreen-on-canvas piece by Los Angeles artist Andrew Hahn
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Through March 25, 2012, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presents New Work: Richard Aldrich, the first museum exhibition to feature work
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In her statement for "The Forever Now," the contemporary painting show on view at MOMA through April 5, 2015, curator Laura Hoptman makes a case
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Dominique Lévy gallery presents a collaborative artists’ project inspired by the work of Italian Conceptualist Giulio Paolini.
Read More"This is the art dealer. He sells the things that are good for you. Why not purchase art?" So reads a silkscreen-on-canvas piece by Los Angeles artist Andrew Hahn
Read MoreThrough March 25, 2012, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presents New Work: Richard Aldrich, the first museum exhibition to feature work
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The structure for Aldrich’s current show is that of two distinct parts. The first opened on November 8th, and has been on view for a week and a half,
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Chronicling an abstract personal account of his relationships, studio practice, and his sense of history through a spectrum of techniques
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In the mid-1960s, when it was widely assumed in this town that the fate of abstract painting lay pretty much in the hands of artists who resided
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Zig Zag Cubism #2 is a good place to begin a tour of Richard Aldrich’s new show, so it’s lucky that the gallery hung it by the entrance.
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1. Everything looks better in a tent. The natural light in that fair was amazing! 2. Large NYC Galleries are still killing it, but smaller int
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The winner of an art prize is declared. Does the award ensure more than a media-storm of fame and notoriety for the recipient? Of course, it will provide a means, a vital resource to build up strength of time and materials. And it does invariably function as a coveted add-on or perhaps extension of the branding of a private collection, foundation or art museum. Looking over our shoulder though, will we see the work chosen as an embodiment of the zeitgeist, as a kind of a memorial to a bygone age?
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Richard Aldrich (b. 1975 Hampton, Virginia) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BFA from Ohio State University in 1998.
Teetering between the abstract and the figurative, Richard Aldrich’s paintings use oil, linen and wax to explore not only himself, but also his interactions with objects and society. Influenced by an assortment of objects and ideas from literature and music to his cut up pants and old bicycle, Aldrich combines the intellectual with the everyday. His works share a common thread of duality from the abstract to narrative, or simple to mysterious.
By building up the surface and then scratching away, the artist’s hand plays a defining role in many of his works as Aldrich creates complex, multi-dimensional pieces that sometimes include text, but more often shy away from a definable concrete form. In addition to painting, Aldrich transforms found objects into sculptures.
Selected solo exhibitions include Art Statement, Art | 40 | Basel, Switzerland (2009); Bortolami, New York (2009); Corvi-Mora, London (2008); Mark Foxx, Los Angeles,(2007) and "Paintings", Roger Bjorkholmen, Stockholm, Sweden (2007).
Selected group exhibitions include Sphrinxx Modern Art, London (2008); "Catawampus (for H.D.)," Midway Contemporary Art Center, Minneapolis (2008); "Here's Why Patterns, Here's Why Patterns," Misako & Rosen, Tokyo (2008); "Black Noise," MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland (2007); "Bastard Creature", Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France (2007); "The Back Room", Celda Contemporanea, Mexico City, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France (2007); "Music is a better noise", PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (2006); and "Noth Drive Press, NDP: The Movie, An Evening of Video Screenings, live performance, The Kitchen, New York (2006).
Aldrich is represented by Gladstone Gallery, New York, and Bortolami, New York.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
