The National Nick Leech October 4, 2017 Untitled (Blue/Green) (1961) by Tadaaki Kuwayama. Courtesy Tadaaki Kuwayama New NYUAD Art Gallery show highlights the role of artist-founded and -run spaces in building an art community. A process that resonates in the UAE Around the mid-point of the last century, three very different birds could be found in New York, each of which was the product of a singular and very modern vision, and each of which attested to the city’s new-found

Rakuko Naito, RN1468-64, 1964, Acrylic and metallic acrylic on linen, 68" x 68" Op Infinitum: ‘The Responsive Eye’ Fifty Years After May 29 - July 6, 2015 Opening reception with the curators: Friday, May 29, 5:00 - 7:00 PM David Richard Gallery, LLC Railyard Arts District 544 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501 p 505-983-9555 | f 505-983-1284 www.DavidRichardGallery.com David Richard Gallery Presents “Op Infinitum: ‘The Responsive Eye’ Fifty Years After”, Fe

Click here to view catalog THE RESPONSIVE OTHER EYE: OPTICAL ABSTRACTION IN AND OUT OF MOMA By Peter Frank “The Responsive Eye,” the New York Museum of Modern Art’s controversial 1965 survey of a new kind of “optical” abstraction, was not the instigator, or even definer, of this abstraction, but merely its critical and popular apotheosis. I say “merely” because the MOMA exhibition – a result of several years of research and travel by curator William C. Seitz – served neither

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

Ward Jackson, Virginia River Series - Powhatan, 1970, Acrylic on linen, 36" x 36" Ward Jackson was a dependable presence on the New York scene, friend to nearly everyone, but few knew his work as a painter. His quiet, almost studious approach to abstract and representational painting alike endeared him more to fellow painters than to noisier scenemakers - a shame, as it relegated the substantial, even moving work of this dedicated painter to group shows and small, artist-run

Click here to view catalog Ward Jackson: An Artist of the American Century by Lilly Wei Ward Jackson (1928-2004) was an exceptionally gifted (if under-recognized) American abstract painter with a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in the art world. Born and raised in Petersburg, Virginia, he came to New York in 1952 from Richmond, fresh out of graduate school and remained for the rest of his life, like so many other seekers of cultural inspiration and sustenance. Jackso

Houston Fine Art Fair September 16 - 18, 2011 George R. Brown Convention Center Opening Preview benefits the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston David Richard Contemporary Booth Number is #220 Featuring artwork by: Robert Motherwell Andy Warhol Julian Stanczak Robert Swain Roland Reiss Ward Jackson Maxwell Hendler Beverly Fishman Matthew Penkala Beatrice Mandelman Michael Wright Charles Strong Jean-Marie Haessle Click here to learn more #DavidRichardContempora

PAINTED BLACK A Group Exhibition featuring artwork by: William Brice, Lisa Cahill, Peter Demos, Merion Estes, Beverly Fishman, Gregory Frank Harris, Maxwell Hendler, Ward Jackson, Otis Jones, Matsumi Kanemitsu, Minoru Kawabata, Masatoyo Kishi, Scott Malbaurn, Beatrice Mandelman, Robert Motherwell, Clarence Morgan, Rakuko Naito, Louis Ribak and Benjamin Sewell April 1 - 30, 2011 Opening Reception Friday, April 1, 5:00-7:00 pm David Richard Contemporary 130 Lincoln Avenue, Suit

ABSTRACTION: NOW AND THEN David Richard Contemporary Booth G189 16th Annual Los Angeles Art Show The Los Angeles Convention Center January 19 - 23, 2011 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 exhibit “Abstraction: Now and Then” as a participant in the 16th annual Los Angeles Art Show at the Los Angeles Convention Center, January 19 th

HOLIDAY GROUP SHOW Op, Pop and Geo Again December 14, 2010 – January 15, 2011 Opening reception: Friday, December 17, 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 a holiday group exhibition featuring contemporary and historic op, pop, psychedelic and geometric art by Steven Alexander, Jerrold Burchman, Alex Couwenberg,

Click here to view catalog The 1960s: Other Trajectories by Peter Frank The ‘60s aren’t what they used to be. We know these fabled years constitute a decade of rapid and continuous change, but we’re learning that we don’t really know the half of it. In American art, for instance, the decade of Pop Art and Minimalism was also a decade of hard-edge and gestural abstraction, painterly figuration, and eccentricities of many kinds. The decade of New York’s pre-eminence also saw th

1960s REVISITED Curated by Gary Snyder October 15 - November 13, 2010 Opening reception Friday, October 15, 2010, 5:00 - 8:00 PM Gallery Talk Saturday, October 16, 2010, 1:00 - 3:00 PM with Gary Snyder, Curator, Peter Frank, Art Historian and Alexandra Benjamin, Executive Director, The Mandelman – Ribak Foundation 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 Contempo