opening reception: Friday, April 5, 6–9PM
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| David Rich Paintings, Catalog April 2013 (pdf download 2 MB) |
facebook album of opening night
close-up of show (flickr)
casual view (google)
close-up of show (flickr)
casual view (google)
Evidence of Things Not Seen, Clarence Morgan on David Rich, 2010 (pdf download 758 KB)
artist's page on this site
artist's page on this site
It is a creed of our gallery that painting should address the definition of the art object, as the conceptual artists did some 40 years ago. Matters of genre and lineage in painting are secondary. So we look for a painting that can free itself up from genre and a take hold of ideation.
Rich's paintings amount to a kind of "index" of marking and noting. It is where abstraction verges upon hermeneutic concerns of language and conceptual art. In Rich’s shorthand, there is a cut-to-the-chase quality that feels like it gets under the hood of things, and does not abide the assumption of abstraction.
(from the catalog essay)
Rich's paintings amount to a kind of "index" of marking and noting. It is where abstraction verges upon hermeneutic concerns of language and conceptual art. In Rich’s shorthand, there is a cut-to-the-chase quality that feels like it gets under the hood of things, and does not abide the assumption of abstraction.
(from the catalog essay)
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| Evening, Warehouses and Water oil on canvas, 42 x 40 in. 2006 |
