Richard Aldrich is a Brooklyn-based painter who exhibited in the 2010 Whitney Biennial.[1]

Richard Aldrich
Born1975 (age 4849)
NationalityAmerican
Known forPainting

Early life and education

Aldrich received his BFA degree from the Ohio State University in 1998.

Career and work

Richard Aldrich, Untitled, 2008, Oil and wax on panel, 19⅝ x 13½ inches

Although mostly abstract and casual, Aldrich's paintings also betray a distinctly literary sensibility, even as he targets what he has called the essential "unwordliness of experience." Snippets of text and random words-UFO, the numeral 4-appear as decals or pencil scrawls, while lines incised with the back of a brush suggest writing once removed. Taciturn pictures carry evocative and ungainly verbal appendages in the form of elliptical press releases or titles like Large Obsessed with Hector Guimard, 2008, a nod to the architect of Paris's Art Nouveau metro stations, or If I Paint Crowned I've Had It, Got Me, 2008, a telling paraphrase of Cézanne explaining he would be ruined if he tried to paint the "crowned" effect of a still life rather than the thing itself.[2]

Selected bibliography

Book appearances

  • Biesenbach, K. Greater New York 2005 (2005)
  • Fyfe, J. 2006 Artist in Residence Biennial (2006)
  • Nicklas, B. Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting (2009)
  • Bonami, F. and Carrion, Murayari, G. Whitney Biennial 2010 (2010)
  • Navarro, M. Abstraction Racional (2011)
  • Bazzini, M. and Ferri, D. The Inevitable Figuration: The Painting Scene Today (2013)
  • Hoptman, L. The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World (2014)
  • Hudson, S. Painting Now (2015)
  • Barliant, C. Richard Aldrich: MDD (2017)

Article appearances

References

  1. "Whitney Biennial 2010". whitney.org. Whitney Museum of American Art. Feb–May 2010. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  2. Gartenfeld, Alex (January 8, 2009). "Questionnaire: Richard Aldrich is serious!". interviewmagazine.com. Interview Magazine. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
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