Category: Willy Bo Richardson Press & Features

February/March 2013 issue of print publication DestinAsian. DestinAsian is an award-winning travel magazine in the Asia-Pacific region. Article by Aaron Gulley, Photography by Jen Judge.

I’ve also attached a PDF of the article “The Soul of Santa Fe”: DestinAsian Santa Fe Article.PDF

Excerpt from the article:

Notwithstanding food and architecture— and even writing— there’s an undeniable romance and import to painting, which is why I take a friend’s advice and contact Willy Bo Richardson, a rising star in contemporary art. “Come over to the studio and we can talk,” he replies when I e-mail him. Unlike New York, in Santa Fe there is a generosity of space and time.

Richardson, 38, lives in an adobe with his wife, Kim, and five-year-old-daughter, Audrey, and he paints in a bright, cramped attached garage that he’s converted to a studio. Though he’s shown in galleries from New York to London and sells paintings for more than most people spend on a car, Richardson is boyish, friendly, demure. His biography is startlingly similar to Emily henry’s: his parents moved to New Mexico in the ’60s and raised him on a commune; he moved to the East Coast to make his name (New York in this case), but returned to Santa Fe because he simply couldn’t stay away.

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“Galleries are scrambling toward nationally relevant contemporary art,” says Willy Bo Richardson, a Santa Fe-born painter whose internationally acclaimed canvases of fluid vertical strokes hang at Canyon Road’s Turner Carroll Gallery. “The quaint notion of going to Santa Fe to buy howling coyote art is thankfully disappearing.”

Luxury and Lifestyle Magazine VIRTUOSO LIFE
Color Outside the Lines

July/August 2016 – Santa Fe Travel

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KSFR 101.1 January 5, 2018
Reporter John Shannon talks with Santa Fe based Artist Willy Bo Richardson who, through martial arts, overcame a crippling sensitivity to chemicals in paint and cleaning solvents that threatened to upend his career as a painter.

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by Ann Landi

Danae Falliers and Willy Bo Richardson have a two-person show of recent works at Surroundings, the landscape-design firm that took over James Kelly’s excellent and hugely missed gallery in the Railyard District. The two artists offer a fine complement to each other’s lushly minimalist visions (no, that’s not an oxymoron—as you can see below). Falliers’ composite-based photography turns landscape, libraries, fabrics, and streets into rhythmic grids and dazzling sweeps of color. Richardson makes opulent, vertically striped paintings that he describes as “philosophy in motion.”  In his artist’s statement, he says “I began with proportion and painted vertical lines as a measuring device. This evolved into my current practice. I did not know this would become a multi-decade body of work. I simply fell in love with something, and as it unfolded it touched me on more profound levels.”  This small but vibrant show is well worth a visit during an indefinite run. Continue reading “Danae Falliers and Willy Bo Richardson”

Three Distinct Artists United by Bold, Enthusiastic Styles

Turner Carroll Gallery welcomes into their space this month three new artists, with styles ranging from minimalist to maximalist and abstract to representational. Willy Bo Richardson, Fausto Fernandez, and Jamie Brunson share a certain spirited sensibility, but their methods of representation vary so dramatically that any one-line comparison between their practices wouldn’t suffice.

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DM Contemporary, New York City. Art in America June/July 2015.

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