Piece description from the artist
So at this moment of giving up, this moment of liminal space, of neither here nor there – that is the moment I wish to capitalize on in my painting practice. Neither here nor there. Skilled and unskilled. I have been painting “stripes” for more than 2 decades and I still don’t know what I’m doing. They still aren’t stripes by the way. The point when we acknowledge our personal limitations, with awareness of striving and fear, there is chance to open up to space. The moment, the materials, the thing happening in space, is so much greater than what any one of us can bring to the table individually. Yet all are granted permission. Better stated, it is our birthright. The great Mahamudra masters can hang on this space in the battle field. The novice may have a glimpse during meditation. I attempt to practice in the rarified environment of making paintings.
Willy Bo Richardson received an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute in 2000, was a painting tech at Cooper Union in New York and a faculty member at Santa Fe University of Art and Design.
Richardson’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions and featured in numerous group exhibitions including 70 Years of Abstract Painting – Excerpts at Jason McCoy Gallery. The show assembled works by a selection of modern and contemporary painters, including Josef Albers, Hans Hofmann and Jackson Pollock. He also showed a body of work in the exhibition “Watercolors” at the Phillips Auction headquarters in Chelsea New York.
His work and vision was featured on the PBS weekly arts series, ¡COLORES!. Public collections include the Albuquerque Museum. Richardson was awarded a residency at Tamarind Institute and was a SITE Santa Fe SPREAD finalist.
Willy Bo Richardson is represented by Nüart Gallery in Santa Fe and Los Angeles, as well as Richard Levy Gallery in Albuquerque, ClampArt in New York City, and Skot Foreman Fine Art in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Describing his paintings as “philosophy in motion,” he paints large scale canvases in vertical fluid strokes, using a non-linear approach. Richardson States, “When 'disruptions' are a norm, perhaps what we are looking for is a loadstone that points towards consistency and quietude. My paintings offer space for peace and contemplation of beauty in the moment.”
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