Jim Richard “New Work”
Jeff Bailey Gallery
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Three large paintings anchor the exhibition: two are domestic interior scenes. Thin Slice features a highly stylized bedroom with a large abstract painting floating in the middle of the room. Party depicts an assortment of tabletop items, with a clock that says it is 12:30. A riotous expanse of gestural abstract brushstrokes hovers above. Modern Emblem is a mix of three abstract patterns, with the central pattern of polka dots covering a cylindrical chair.
Richard is a great editor of images. His source material includes exhibition and auction catalogues and shelter magazines. He may save an image for years before combining it with others to create a collage, work on paper or begin a painting. The unexpected results are not only clever, but also witty. The juxtapositions of art and objects are thought provoking and revealing, and posit the age-old question: Does that painting look good above the sofa?
This is Jim Richard’s (born 1943) second solo exhibition with the gallery, and his twenty-second overall. Richard’s work is in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans (where he had a solo exhibition in 2012) and other institutions including the Progressive Art Collection. He has had solo exhibitions at Inman Gallery, Houston; Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans; Oliver Kamm 5BE Gallery, New York, and numerous other venues. He is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award in Painting and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in Painting. He lives and works in New Orleans.
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Schedule
from May 16, 2014 to June 21, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-05-16 from 18:00 to 20:00