Richard Colman’s solo exhibition opens this weekend at New Image Art, it's his first LA solo in 3 years and if you're in the Santa Monica Boulevard area on the 21st of July pop in after 7pm and check out his wild and crazy and often enormous paintings at the public preview. Imagine a blend of Dalek abstraction with a hint of 1970s way out there children's book illustration, grill it on a bed of surrealism, sprinkle with a little Aubrey Beardsley on a technicolour trip and you're starting to get the idea. Totally wild.
Colman San Francisco, California. He was born in 1976 in Bethesda, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. and graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, in 2002. He has widely exhibited around the world in a long list of solo and group exhibitions including Krets, Malmo Sweeden, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles, Union Gallery, London, UK and ARKEN Museum Of Modern Art, Denmark. In 2006, Gingko Press released a book cataloging his work titled “I Was Just Leaving.” Colman currently lives and works in. Check out all his work at San Francisco, California www.richardcolmanart.com.
Worlds within worlds is how I see Colman's work. First off one is hit by the sheer vast and rather mesmerising complexity and abundance of precision hues, tones and bisecting lines on offer. But as one's logic centre slowly reigns in the splendour, one's consciousness prepares to dive ever so slowly into the detail. Swimming in array of sub-imagery and common iconography from as diverse sources as occult symbols, silhouettes, surrealist art, myth andmathematics, which all converge on the rise and fall of a swell of rainbows fractured by the geometry of that very logic.
The title of the show, “Keep Out the Light,” references the density of Colman’s work, as well as his obsessive work habits, serving as a sort of escape for the artist. The works in this new exhibition exhibit the strength of obsessive patterning and imagery to drive away the delusions of everyday life. Colman will be constructing a space within the gallery that will both highlight the work and invite viewers to step into the art and explore and experience the landscape of “Keep Out the Light”. Open to the public, the preview reception will take place on May 21, 7-10 p.m. at New Image Art, 7908 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA 90046. The exhibition runs through July 3, 2010.
Oh wow.. I am overwhelmed by all the colors.. I’m not much of an art fan or understood much of art but this attracted not just my eyes but my attention as well..
Sounds like you might be becoming an art fan after all Bella
I totally agree with you, Colman has an amazing sense of colour. Thanks for your comment!
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