Have you ever found yourself in a far-flung city exploring museums and art galleries and feeling inspired and creative? Exploring the David Richard Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico; a recommended “must do” for any art lover or explorer from Santa Fe Selection. © Loving the Suite Life Matthew Penkala, I Can't Breathe with You Looking at Me, 2013, Acrylic on canvas stretched panel, 48" x 48" Lilly Fenichel, Color Geometric Study E, 1976, Acrylic ink on gessoed panel, 30" x 40" T

Click here to view catalog FRAME FOLLOWS FORM: THE SHAPED PAINTING IN AMERICAN ABSTRACTION By Peter Frank After the Second World War, American artists fell into a frenzy of formal experimentation. At first dominated by the theater of metaphysical narrative that defined abstract expressionism, this trajectory of extravagant invention took a more formal turn around 1960 The production of imagery gave way to the production of unencoded, optically self-sufficient structures, man

Lilly Fenichel, Spindle, 2010, Oil on polyproplyene, 39" x 37" LILLY FENICHEL Current Work June 15 – July 21, 2012 Opening reception: Friday, June 15, 5:00-7:00 PM David Richard Contemporary 130 Lincoln Avenue, Suite D, Santa Fe, NM 87501 p 505-982-0318 | f 505-982-0351 www.DavidRichardContemporary.com David Richard Contemporary is pleased to present, Current Work, a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Lilly Fenichel and her first solo show with the gallery. This work feat

The bearer of its passion. Locus is Latin for “place”—“where it’s happening,” in English—as in: “By the early 1950s,New York had emerged as the locus of Postwar abstraction.” In his introduction to 50 West Coast Artists, published three decades later (1981) by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, its director framed “the question of local designation” as an abiding problem for art history as well as for artists and the art world: “It seems to emerge from the unspoken and c

Jack Jefferson, Embarcadero #4, 1962, Oil on canvas, 74" x 60" FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BAY AREA ABSTRACTION: 1945-1965 Jack Jefferson, Frank Lobdell and Charles Strong November 11 – December 31, 2011 Opening reception: Friday, December 11, 2011, 5:00-7:00 PM David Richard Contemporary 130 Lincoln Avenue, Suite D, Santa Fe, NM 87501 p 505-983-9555 | f 505-983-1284 | www.DavidRichardContemporary.com David Richard Contemporary is pleased to present BAY AREA ABSTRACTION: 1945-1965