The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present All the Way Home, an exhibition of paintings by Jim Richard. At the artist’s invitation, the gallery is also exhibiting work by Tom Burckhardt and John Ahearn. The exhibition will be on view at Arthur Roger Gallery, located at 432 Julia Street, from January 4 through February 22, 2020. The gallery will host an opening reception with the artist in attendance on Saturday, January 4 from 6–8 pm.
All the Way Home is Jim Richard’s tenth exhibition with the gallery. Featured are small- to large-scale works rendered in Flashé on canvas, linen, and Yupo paper. The works, created over the last few years, continue the artist’s remarkable series of paintings that depict high style domestic interiors flecked with period furniture, kitsch objects, and works of art usually with a modernist flavor. Also included are paintings that depict gardens or backyards that are inhabited with (and interrupted by) references to modern art with the paint either applied by brush or a new poured technique.
In 2016 Richard started a series of works using Flashé paint
poured onto Yupo paper. This offers a sense of immediacy
and loss of control that is not so present in his signature style
of carefully layered flat surfaces done with a brush. The
poured vinyl paint, when dried on the surface of the
non-absorbant Yupo, takes on a playful look that somewhat resembles playdough. He is now using this method to do works on stretched linen as well as the Yupo.
The artist peruses magazines and other print materials for visual examples of wall treatments, furniture, and upholstery. The collected references are fused and then adorned with imagined fine art paintings and sculpture, conceiving elegant yet dissonant interior and exterior spaces. Also included in the exhibition are small-scale collages made up of found images superimposed with uncharacteristically organic painted works of art.
Jim Richard received his M.F.A. from the University of Colorado. He has exhibited at the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Museum of the Twentieth Century in Vienna, Austria. In 2004, he was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in Painting, and in 2006, the Pollack-Krasner Foundation award. He is in numerous collections including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; the Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody; the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA; and the New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA. He is a professor emeritus of Painting at the University of New Orleans.
For more information please contact the Arthur Roger Gallery at 504.522.1999 or visit our website at arthurrogergallery.com.
