Category: Projects

Richard Levy Gallery is pleased to announce the accession of Number 1,” 1999 to the permanent collection of the Albuquerque Museum. The Albuquerque Museum Permanent Collection features artists living in or influenced by the South West region and includes masterworks by Georgia O’Keeffe, Raymond Jonson, Fritz Scholder, and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.

Number 1 was the first of what developed into a multi-decade process. Mid-way through his MFA thesis at Pratt Institute, Richardson stopped painting, turned his paintings to the wall, and started over, beginning with vertical strokes in defiance to the notion at the time that “painting was dead”.

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Several of my paintings are included in the new book Contemporary Art of the Southwest, by Ashley E. Rooney. Foreword written by Julie Sasse, Chief Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Tucson Museum of Art. The book’s intent is to take a fresh look at the insightful ways artists have interpreted life in the Southwest.

Book Signing
May 17, 1:30 – 3:30 PM
Artisan
2601 Cerrillos Road
Santa Fe, NM 87505
Twenty three artists will be present. Join me at Artisan in celebrating the publication, and meet the artists!
Artists attending:

Jim Alford, Andrea Cermanski, Susan Contreras, Carlos Carulo, Upton Greyshoes Ethelbah, Jeanie Gooden, Geoffrey Gorman, Natasha Isenhour , Michael Kessler, Michael Kessler , Ellen Koment, Max Lehman, Arthur Lopez, Carole LaRoche, Margi Lucena, Mario Quilles, Nancy Reyner, Willy Bo Richardson, David Rudolph, Paul Shapiro, Jack Slentz, Carl Winters, Stephen Wood

Willy Bo Richardson was honored to be one of the eight SITE Santa Fe SPREAD finalists. SPREAD is a community dinner that funds artists’ projects and creative initiatives. SPREAD seeks to provide micro-grants for innovative projects and artworks conceived by New Mexico-based artists.

Transcript from Richardson’s speech (you’ll just have to imagine the slide show):

My first recorded work of art was an arc of family shoes. This was made when I was still crawling. I’ve always been attracted to beauty, simplicity and symmetry. These are the same principles we use to explore the world around us, and to build fantastic things- like particle accelerators. This is a process of discovery. The scientific method. In my painting practice I found an efficient way to work with these principles. I am looking for order without ignoring complexities.

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Phillips de Pury Watercolors from Willy Richardson on Vimeo.

phillips auction watercolors video

The “Watercolors“ show, curated by Kristin Sancken, Phillips de Pury featured abstract and figurative works by a diverse group of artists. It included emerging young painters like Annika Connor, Andrea Mary Marshall, and Alexis Rockman as well as such heavyweights of the art world as Eric Fischl.

The show’s breadth was impressive as it attempted to examine the perception of watercolor as a fine art medium and the issues of value (art historical, economic and aesthetic) surrounding the medium and its relationship to oils.

The exhibition was held at Phillips de Pury’s Chelsea location. Video of the opening night featuring my work from the “That’s Where You Need to Be” series.

ON VIEW: 1 -19 OCTOBER 2012
LOCATION: 450 West 15th Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10011
This exhibition was organized in conjunction with Active Ideas Productions, also in partnership are galleries 303, Ricco Maresca, Bravin Lee Programs, Greenberg Van Doren, Halsey McKay, Tripoli, Salomon Contemporary, and Nicole Klagsburn.