Richard Aldrich (artist)
Richard Aldrich is a Brooklyn-based painter who exhibited in the 2010 Whitney Biennial.[1]
Richard Aldrich | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1975 (age 47–48) |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Painting |
Early life and education
Aldrich received his BFA degree from the Ohio State University in 1998.
Career and work
Although mostly abstract and casual, Aldrich's paintings also betray a distinctly literary sensibility, even as he targets what he has called the essential "unwordliness of experience." Snippets of text and random words-UFO, the numeral 4-appear as decals or pencil scrawls, while lines incised with the back of a brush suggest writing once removed. Taciturn pictures carry evocative and ungainly verbal appendages in the form of elliptical press releases or titles like Large Obsessed with Hector Guimard, 2008, a nod to the architect of Paris's Art Nouveau metro stations, or If I Paint Crowned I've Had It, Got Me, 2008, a telling paraphrase of Cézanne explaining he would be ruined if he tried to paint the "crowned" effect of a still life rather than the thing itself.[2]
Selected bibliography
Book appearances
- Biesenbach, K. Greater New York 2005 (2005)
- Fyfe, J. 2006 Artist in Residence Biennial (2006)
- Nicklas, B. Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting (2009)
- Bonami, F. and Carrion, Murayari, G. Whitney Biennial 2010 (2010)
- Navarro, M. Abstraction Racional (2011)
- Bazzini, M. and Ferri, D. The Inevitable Figuration: The Painting Scene Today (2013)
- Hoptman, L. The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World (2014)
- Hudson, S. Painting Now (2015)
- Barliant, C. Richard Aldrich: MDD (2017)
Article appearances
- Bellini, A. "Paranorma Pittura," Flash Art Italia (2004)
- Saltz, J. "Dire Diary," The Village Voice (2005)
- Smith, R. "Menace, Glitter and Rock in Visions of Dystopia," The New York Times (2006)
- Klein, J. "Bunch Alliance and Dissolve," Art Papers (2007)
- Butler, C. "Looking Back: Emerging Artists," frieze (2008)
- Rothkopf, S. "Openings: Richard Aldrich," Artforum (2009)
- Fiduccia, J. & Holte, M.N. "New Abstract Painting," Kaleidoscope
- Kitamura, K. "Time Again," Art Monthly (2011)
- Nagoya, S. "September," Flash Art (2012)
- Moore, T. & Coley, B. "Bull Tongue," Arthur (2013)
- Eastham, B. "Painting is a Painting is a Painting," Elephant (2014)
- Caws, M.A. "Seeing it Now," The Brooklyn Rail (2015)
- Sutherland, C. "Richard Aldrich on the plurality of painting," The Japan Times (2016)
- Haddad, N. "Richard Aldrich's Elliptical Paths Through Language," Hyperallergic (2018)
- Tanaka, Y. "Abstraction: Aspects of Contemporary Art," The Japan Times (2019)
References
- "Whitney Biennial 2010". whitney.org. Whitney Museum of American Art. Feb–May 2010. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
- Gartenfeld, Alex (January 8, 2009). "Questionnaire: Richard Aldrich is serious!". interviewmagazine.com. Interview Magazine. Retrieved 13 December 2018.