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Willy Bo Richardson received an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute in 2000. He is a faculty member at Santa Fe University of Art and Design and exhibits his paintings internationally.
Richardson states:
Some of my paintings are likened to lines from a Haiku poem. I practice an artistic discipline with minimal structure. My paintings are pared down to only the essentials—making each passage of color, or even brush-stroke, count. Matsuo Bashō, one of the four great masters of Haiku, has been an inspiration for decades. One may ask how is it that poetry or painting, can be an environmental practice? For me, painting is the practice of learning my place, taking part in, only doing my part, while learning to give voice to what's greater. I am a skier, hiker and nature enthusiast. I also sought guidance from Taoist and Native teachers – who have imparted the concept of reciprocity. Reciprocity comes with gratitude as well the confidence to ask the question, "can we give back?" I am slowly learning to stand on my own two feet and let the feedback loop guide and nourish, whether letting go in nature or letting go in my studio practice.
The "Snow Turning to Rain" series is framed as the middle line of the three stanza poem structure.
This is a TurningArt exclusive limited edition print available in editions of 100.
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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