

Willy Richardson
Santa Fe, NM
About the Artist
Willy Richardson lived and worked in New York City for a decade, where he immersed himself in the international art scene, earning his M.F.A. in painting from Pratt Institute in 2000.
In 2011 Richardson's work was included in “70 Years of Abstract Painting” at Jason McCoy Gallery in New York, which assembled works by modern and contemporary painters, including Josef Albers, Hans Hofmann and Jackson Pollock. In 2012 he exhibited a body of watercolors at Phillips auction house in New York. Richardson's work and vision was featured on the PBS weekly arts series ¡COLORES!. He was honored t…
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Willy Richardson lived and worked in New York City for a decade, where he immersed himself in the international art scene, earning his M.F.A. in painting from Pratt Institute in 2000.
In 2011 Richardson's work was included in “70 Years of Abstract Painting” at Jason McCoy Gallery in New York, which assembled works by modern and contemporary painters, including Josef Albers, Hans Hofmann and Jackson Pollock. In 2012 he exhibited a body of watercolors at Phillips auction house in New York. Richardson's work and vision was featured on the PBS weekly arts series ¡COLORES!. He was honored to be one of the eight SITE Santa Fe SPREAD finalists in 2014. He exhibits his paintings nationally and his work is found in prestigious collections including the Albuquerque Museum.
Richard Levy Gallery wrote: “Richardson stretches vertical bands of color so intense across each canvas that they seem to crackle like neon. Gripping the viewer, a humming field suspends the sensation of time. He has described his act of painting as a sort of meditation, a give-and-take with gravity and the universal laws that determine our experience of the physical world.”
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Selected Exhibitions
- Phillips de Pury
New York, 2012 - ClampArt
New York, 2012 - Jason McCoy Gallery
New York, 2012 - Center for Contemporary Arts
Santa Fe, 2010 - Ambient Art Projects
Las Vegas NV, 2010
Press and Accolades
- Peggy Roalf : Abstraction: Informers and The Informed, Design Arts Daily
April 21, 2011 - Katy Crocker: Painting, Doritos and Color Theory, The Work of Willy Bo Richardson, The End of Being
April 2011 - Artists to Watch in 2010 Dacor Magazine
January, 2010
Education
- Pratt Institute, MFA
Brooklyn, NY,2000 - University of Texas, Austin, BA
Austin, TX,1996 - University of Wisconsin, Madison,