Category: Projects

Originally designed by Doug Garofalo, the residents of the house commissioned Grant Gibson to design an addition to their award-winning structure. The residents are collectors of Willy Bo Richardson’s work and they wished to construct a wall custom built to honor a painting.

The problem was that the original house was designed to make it difficult to add anything at all, and Garofalo passed away shortly after the original house was constructed. The clients work closely with Grant to achieve a solution to this very difficult problem.

Willy Bo Richardson on the air with Mark Perry, “A Matter of the Mind” KSFR April 16, 2024. With the theme of connectivity. Richardson and Perry have a conversation about creativity and flow states in relation to psychology and art history.

“A Matter of the Mind” –  Audio podcast episode here:

Synthesizing his knowledge and experience of hypnotherapy, experiential education, facilitation, presentation and musical performance, Mark Perry‘s radio show explores mind, consciousness and creative intelligence. His focus is on the cultivation and advancement of our natural connectedness.

Richardson also talks about his new work and the exhibition “Confluence” at Nüart Gallery with Joseph Ostraff.

Q. How do you see this body of work in relation to past exhibitions?

I am especially excited about this current body of work on the level of process. I’ve been making innovative changes in leaps and bounds over the last 2 years. I began using acrylic airbrush and spray guns for my value studies. These are the first layers that provide structure for subsequent layers painted in oil. The combination of spray gun and brushwork is really starting to come together. I’m doing things I didn’t even know were possible just a few years ago!

Q. Intentional mindfulness and solitude are active, prominent expressions in your work. Abstract sentiments such as these can mean many different things to different people. What do they mean to you in your paintings?

It’s not an accident that early modern humans painted in caves. Painting is inherently solitary. I am inspired by the first cave paintings, to the lush robes of medieval altarpieces, to the inventiveness of the Renaissance, to the destruction and open mindedness of the abstract expressionism, to the return to materials of the minimalism. I seek to navigate through social and political upheaval and blaze a path through historically relevant passageways. To be mindful is to be able to make a stand. To declare, “this is the way! I found a path!”

First survey of modernist and contemporary architecture and interiors in the richly layered architectural history of Santa Fe. “Santa Fe Modern” reveals the high desert landscape as an ideal setting for bold, abstracted forms of modernist houses.

Walkyries, oil on panel, is featured in the Hunt residence.

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Tamarind Residency

Tamarind Institute residency workshops between artist and printers are the basis for a conversation on the shared creative language through interdisciplinary partnerships. Since 1960, Tamarind Institute has shaped the field of collaborative printmaking, through a unique printer training program and an educational mission to preserve and advance the creative medium of lithography. Continue reading “Tamarind Institute Residency”

The Santa Fe Literary Review is an annual in-print literary journal. SFLR features work by local, national, and international writers and artists. This years Review includes fiction by Tommy Orange, recipient of the 2019 PEN/Hemingway award for his debut novel, There There.

In conjunction with the review is an exhibition of works by visual artists at SFCC Visual Art Gallery. I’m showing a large 13 foot triptych as well as the small painting on wood panel featured on the cover of the Review.

The Spaces Between
Reception and reading: Thursday October 17, 5-7pm
October 15-November 21

SFCC Visual Arts Gallery
6401 Richards Ave
Santa Fe, NM 87508
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