Category: Exhibitions

Exhibitions include Watercolors at the Phillips Auction headquarters in Chelsea New York, as well as Jason McCoy Gallery, New York 70 Years of Abstract Painting – Excerpts.

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ClampArt Artsy Exclusive: Colophon

 

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Keep Breathing 4, 2020
watercolor and gouache on paper

ClampArt is pleased to present “Willy Bo Richardson: Colophon,” an Artsy online exclusive exhibition.

May 9 – June 21, 2019

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247 West 29th Street, Ground Floor
New York, NY 10001
646.230.0020

Willy Bo Richardson describes his paintings of vibrant, vertical bands of color as “philosophy in motion.” Working solely within the framework of vertical strokes, the artist uses color, proportion, and line to create works that have a physical and emotional impact on the viewer. He characterizes his practice as “a sort of meditation, a give-and-take with gravity and the universal laws that determine our experience of the physical world.” By intentionally veering away from representational or narrative imagery, he seeks to confront and convey an enduring fascination with the unchanging mind itself, actualizing through the use of color and line “a humming field that suspends the sensation of time.”

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Albuquerque Museum Acquisition

WILLY BO RICHARDSON: NAVIGATION

Richard Levy Gallery
April 20 – May 25, 2018
Reception: Saturday May 12, 6 – 8pm

Richard Levy Gallery celebrates the accession of Willy Bo Richardson’s Number 1, 1999 to the permanent collection of the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History. The painting is featured in Richardson’s solo exhibition Navigation.

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Number 1, 1999, 58 x 62 1/2 in, oil on canvas

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Tamarind Institute: No Modifiers

Tamarind Institute

Tamarind Institute is pleased to present No Modifiers, an exhibition showcasing lithographs by professional guest artists, created in collaboration with the Tamarind Institute Printer Training Program. No Modifiers, refers to the collaborative testing of skills between an artist and printers as they work towards creating a final image.

Tamarind Institute
May 2 – May 8, 2019
Reception: Friday May 3, 5 – 7pm

2500 Central Avenue SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106 Continue reading “Tamarind Institute: No Modifiers”

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Miami Project Richard Levy Gallery

Miami Project
Miami Project: Richard Levy Gallery | Booth H5
December 1 – 6

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Willy Bo Richardson with Tom Waldron, Ed Ruscha, Richard Levy Gallery booth

Miami Project: Richard Levy Gallery returns for its fourth edition, bringing modern and contemporary art to the fair’s new waterfront location. The Deauville Beach Resort. Miami Project Edition 4 will feature 60 top galleries from around the world. Miami Project matches historical pieces with works by living artists.

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SITE Santa Fe: Exquisite Corpse

SITE exquisite Corpse

Saturday, April 14, 3 – 6 pm

LIVE DRAWING EVENT

This fundraiser event at SITE Santa Fe will feature artist teams collaborating live on Exquisite Corpse drawings. Attendees have the opportunity to watch their favorite artist teams at work and buy drawings as they are completed. It’s an honor to have been selected as a featured artist.

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Exquisite Corpse, also known as exquisite cadaver (from the original French term cadavreexquis), is a chance-based parlor game by which images are collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence by being allowed to see only the end of what the previous person contributed. Popularized by Surrealist Artists like André Breton, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, and Man Ray, the Exquisite Corpse was a perfect creative tool, involving elements of chance, unseen elements, and group collaboration- all in service of disrupting the waking mind’s penchant for order.

SITE Santa Fe Thanks the many talented artists creating exquisite corpse drawings:
Janet Abrams, Patrick Bernatchez, Paula Castillo, Lawrence Fodor, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Dan Namingha, Michael Namingha , Willy Bo Richardson, Alexis Rockman, Charles Ross, Robert Stivers  * And many more…!

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Phillips Auction: Watercolors

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Music to Drive to 14, 2012, watercolor and gouache on paper

Phillips Auction Watercolors
450 West 15th Street 3rd Fl
New York, New York
October 1 – October 19

Phillips Auction Presents: Watercolors

Phillips Auction Watercolors is a curated selling exhibition of a diverse group of contemporary works. The artists featured moved beyond using watercolor medium as an auxiliary mode of expression. These artists embrace the medium, and consider their watercolor paintings autonomous and finished in their own right. The exhibition showcases over 80 abstract and figurative works that challenge the romantic ideologies associated with historical watercolor. Artists include heavyweights such as Eric Fischl and Alexis Rockman, as well as a spectrum of mid career and emerging  artists.

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Jason McCoy Gallery: 70 Years of Abstract Painting – Excerpts

abstract painting by willy bo richardson
Three Muses, 2011
Oil on linen

jason mccoy gallery
41 East 57th Street, 11th floor
New York, NY 10022

April 6 – May 20
Reception: Wednesday, April 6 · 6:00pm – 8:00pm

70 Years of Abstract Painting – Excerpts presents a wide range of paintings on canvas through a spectrum of history. The show functions as a historical survey while at the same time a playful new vantage point. The eclectic mix derived from seven decades-worth of work initiates an unusual dialogue between historic and contemporary works. Furthermore, modern and post-modern influences and concerns are addressed. 70 Years of Abstract Painting – Excerpts assembles works by a selection of modern and contemporary painters, including Josef Albers, Hans Hofmann and Jackson Pollock.

The exhibition aims to initiate an unusual dialogue between modern and post-modern concerns. Jason McCoy Gallery states, “It is our ambition to stress the timelessness of the abstract language in painting and to create a platform, which allows older works to appear in a new light and contemporary compositions to be viewed in the context of their influences.” Continue reading “Jason McCoy Gallery: 70 Years of Abstract Painting – Excerpts”