Richard Aldrich (American, b.1975) is an influential Contemporary painter. Associated at times with the Provisional Painting movement by writer Raphael Rubinstein, Aldrich is best known for his loose, abstract paintings. Not adhering to any single style or aesthetic, Aldrich moves freely from gestural mark-making, text-based printing, and cutting the canvas to reveal stretcher bars underneath. In a 2015 interview in Art in America, the artist expressed interest in psychotherapy, poetry, and music, which he himself performs and records, sometimes under the pseudonym Tuck Tuck Tuck.
Aldrich studied at Ohio State University, receiving his BFA in 1998 and moving to New York in 2000. His work has been exhibited internationally, notably with solo exhibitions at Bortolami gallery in New York, Björkholmen Galleri in Sweden, Misako and Rosen in Japan, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Art Basel in Switzerland, among others. His work can be found in the public collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Whitworth Art Gallery, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
