82. RICHARD
ALDRICH
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Untitled, 2010 Oil and wax on linen 213.4 x 147.3 cm
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Untitled, 2010 Oil, wax, and charcoal on linen 213.4 x
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Hard Shapes, 2010 Oil, wax and pencil on linen 213.4 x 147.3
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BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1975 in Hampton, Virginia ( USA)
Nowadays:
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
Studies:
1998
Ohio State University, OH, BFA
Themes and
style:
Aldrich
often works on gessoed panels with a mixture of oil paint, mineral spirits, and
wax, which he lays on with a brush or palette knife. The combination of the
resistant ground and viscid alloy registers his short hesitant strokes with
tender congealed precision. His larger and breezier canvases have been compared
to Philip Guston's transitional pictures from the mid-1960s (and also sometimes
evoke Per Kirkeby or Joan Mitchell).
His inquisitive
approach to his paintings extends both to the way they come to occupy a space
and to the space from which they come. His work does not depict the life of the
studio but embodies it directly, reconstituting the books, postcards, records,
and junk he happens to have lying around. A failed attempt at a jury-rigged
curtain or a page of poetry might wind up on a canvas, while a collaged element
might get ripped off, leaving behind a frayed paper scar.
Techniques:
His work
is developed in abstract paintings & making the most of many different textures.
Solo Exhibitions
2015
Ten Years of Richard Aldrich from the Collection of Bob
Nickas, White Columns, New
York, NY
2014
dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2013
Twins, Misako and Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
The Words of Tuck Tuck Tuck, Karma, New York, NY
Forget Your Dreams, All You Need is Love / A Day in the Life,
Bortolami Gallery, New
York, NY
2012
Half of What I Say, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
2011
New Work: Richard Aldrich, San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art, San Francisco, CA
Once I Was…, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
Museo, Corvi-Mora, London, United Kingdom
Richard Aldrich and the 19th Century French Painting,
Contemporary Art Museum St.
Louis, St Louis, MI (cat)
2010
Slide Paintings, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
Misako and Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
2009
dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Art Statement, Art I 40 I Basel, Switzerland
Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Narrative with 5 Characters, Corvi-Mora, London, United
Kingdom
2007
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
Paintings, Roger Björkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2006
Corvi-Mora, London, United Kiingdom
2004
Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
Teoría del Duende, Centro Federico Garcia Lorca, Granada,
Spain
Works on Paper, Greene Naftali, New York, NY
The Radiants, curated by Jacob King and UNITED BROTHERS,
Bortolami, New York,
NY
New Acquisitions, The University of Manchester, The
Whitworth, Manchester, United
Kingdom
2014
The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World,
Museum of Modern
Art, New York, NY
Hypothesis for an Exhibition, Dominique Lévy, New York (cat)
Biennale of Painting: The Touch of the Painter, Museum
Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle,
Belgium
Abstract Possibilies 2, Bjorkholmen Gallery, Stockholm,
Sweden
The Hawker, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, United Kingdom
Stars + Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century from the
Goldberg Collection, touring
2014 – 2016, Museum & Galleries of NSW, New South Wales,
Australia
Outside the Lines, Contemporary Art Museum of Houston,
Houston, TX
2013
My Crippled Friend, Columbus College of Art and Design, Ohio
Why Not Live For Art? II, Tokyo City Opera, Tokyo, Japan
Roving Signs, Mathew Marks, New York, NY
10 Years, Wallspace, New York, NY
Inevitable Figuration, Pecci Center for Contemporary Art,
Prato, Italy (cat)
LAT. 41° 7' N., LONG. 72° 19' W, Martos Gallery, East Marion,
NY
2012
Out Of The Blue, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
Twenty Years After, Björkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
September, Misako and Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
If There Would Be a Face, This Would Be a Cat, dépendance,
Brussels, Belgium
Soundworks, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, United
Kingdom
How Do It Know, Essex Street, New York, NY
Contemporary Painting, 1960 to the Present: Selections from
the SFMoMA Collection,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Risk + Reward, Foster Gallery at University of Wisconsin-Eau
Claire, Eau Claire, WI
2011
The 2011 Bridgehampton Biennial, Martos Gallery,
Bridgehampton, NY
Straw, Hannah Barry Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Catalogue of the Exhibition, Triple V Gallery, Paris, France
Time Again, Sculpture Center, New York, NY (cat)
With One Color, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, NY
Provisional Painting, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, United
Kingdom
Five Easy Pieces, Galeria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art From the Dicke
Collection, Dayton Art
Institute, Dayton, OH (cat)
2011
Rational Abstraction, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea,
Santiago de Compostela,
Spain (cat)
2010
Painting Extravaganza, Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy
Re-Dressing, Bortolami, New York, NY
New Work From New York, Golden Gallery, Chicago, IL
Gradation, Portugal Arte 10, Lisbon, Portugal
Next Generation, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen,
Switzerland
Le Tableau, Cheim and Read, New York, NY
Exhibition #3, The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY
Feint Art, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Whitney Biennial 2010, Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York, NY (cat)
Off The Wall, Gustavsbergs Konsthall, Gustavsberg, Sweden
(cat)
2009
Doors, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The
Ready-Made Gesture, The
Kitchen, New York, NY
Cave Painting Installment #1, Gresham's Ghost, New York, NY
Richard Aldrich, Zak Prekop, Lesley Vance, Roger Björkholmen
Gallery, Stockholm,
Sweden
My Summer Show, Galerie LeLong, New York, NY
Abstractionists Unite! Who Give You Just Enough To Last a
Lifetime, The Glendale
College of Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
Cave Painting, PSM Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Collection of…, White Columns, New York, NY
Strip/Stripe, The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY
House Call, Three's Company, New York, NY
2008
Sphinxx, Modern Art, London, United Kingdom
Catawampus (for H.D.), Midway Contemporary Art Center,
Minneapolis, MN (cat)
Here's Why Patterns, Here's Why Patterns, Misako & Rosen,
Tokyo, Japan
Bob Nickas -Recent Acquisitions, Gifts and Works from Various
Exhibitions 1985-2008,
White Columns, New York, NY
Black Noise, Centre National Édition Art Image, Chatou,
France
2007
Black Noise, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
Catawampus (for H.D.), Shane Campbell, Chicago, IL
People Take Pictures of Each Other, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston,
MA
Laying Bricks, Wallspace, New York, NY
Bastard Creature, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France
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Abstract Paintings and a Sculpture, Fireplace Project, East
Hampton, NY
Richard Aldrich & Meredyth Sparks, Elizabeth Dee, New
York, NY
Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Painting as Fact, Fact as Fiction, de Pury & Luxembourg,
Zurich, Switzerland (cat)
M R A I T C T H A A N M D Y, The Mandrake, Los Angeles, CA
The Back Room, Celda Contemporánea, Mexico City, Mexico
2006
Bunch Alliance and Dissolve, Contemporary Arts Center,
Cincinnati, OH (cat)
Music is a Better Noise, P.S.1, New York, NY
Flesh Records, Haswellediger, New York, NY
An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
NY
Endless Summer, West London Projects, London, United Kingdom
Audio, Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva, Switzerland
Surfing the Surface, Galleria Paolo Bonzano, Rome, Italy
Supports, Roger Björkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Richard Aldrich + Paul-Aymar Mourgue d’Algue, Galleria Paolo
Bonzano, Rome, Italy
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
Lesser New York, Fia Backstrom Production, Brooklyn, NY
Greater New York 2005, P.S.1, New York, NY (cat)
KA/VH:RA/AG, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York, NY
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
2003
The Club in the Shadow, Kenny Schachter Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Performances
2013
An American Tuk Tuk in Paris, Green Tea Gallery, Paris,
France
2012
A Ridding, Regina Rex, Brooklyn, NY
2011
Mandolin, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
Hurray, Renwick Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Real Rags, New Jersey, Basel, Switzerland
Real Rags with Jeffrey Perkins, Bortolami Gallery, New York,
NY
2008
Real Rags, Test:, Arte Contemporanea, Lisbon, Portugal
An Evening With Cinema Zero, White Flag Projects, St. Louis,
MO
2007
Bastard Creature (with Amy Granat), Palais De Tokyo, Paris,
France
2006
NDP the Movie (with Hurray) The Kitchen, New York, NY
2005
KA/VH:RA/AG (with Hurray and Amy Granat) Oliver Kamm/5BE
Gallery, New York, NY
Collections
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitworth Art Gallery
In his own words:
“Painting
is more for myself. The painting is just about therapy in general, or therapy as
an attempt at some sort of self-actualization, or the process of
self-actualization, which is what art is for as well. That's a photograph of me
at the top with all of these pieces of paper stuck to my face. There's this
weird white mass blocking my face, clouding my vision. The picture was taken in
2001 or so. There is another book attached to the painting; there is also an
abstract painted gesture.
But really, as a painting, it's about visualizing an experience. Or rather, it's a collection of signifiers that refer to experiences, all of which fit under this umbrella of "therapist," which, for me, is just a stand-in for "art." I think, though, there is also in this work a certain notion of playing with ostentatious subject matter—you know, psychotherapy.”
But really, as a painting, it's about visualizing an experience. Or rather, it's a collection of signifiers that refer to experiences, all of which fit under this umbrella of "therapist," which, for me, is just a stand-in for "art." I think, though, there is also in this work a certain notion of playing with ostentatious subject matter—you know, psychotherapy.”
Representative
Galleries:
Saatchi
Gladstone
Dependance
For
more Information:
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/magazine/in-the-studio-richard-aldrich/