Richard Aldrich is a Brooklyn-based painter who exhibited in the 2010 Whitney Biennial.[1]

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Early life and education

Aldrich received his BFA degree from the Ohio State University in 1998.^{[citation needed]}

Career and work

Although mostly abstract and casual, Aldrich's paintings also betray a distinctly literary sensibility, even as he targets what he has called the essential "unwordliness of experience." Snippets of text and random words-UFO, the numeral 4-appear as decals or pencil scrawls, while lines incised with the back of a brush suggest writing once removed. Taciturn pictures carry evocative and ungainly verbal appendages in the form of elliptical press releases or titles like Large Obsessed with Hector Guimard, 2008, a nod to the architect of Paris's Art Nouveau metro stations, or If I Paint Crowned I've Had It, Got Me, 2008, a telling paraphrase of Cézanne explaining he would be ruined if he tried to paint the "crowned" effect of a still life rather than the thing itself.[2]

Selected bibliography

Book appearances

• Biesenbach, K. Greater New York 2005 (2005)
• Fyfe, J. 2006 Artist in Residence Biennial (2006)
• Nicklas, B. Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting (2009)
• Bonami, F. and Carrion, Murayari, G. Whitney Biennial 2010 (2010)
• Navarro, M. Abstraction Racional (2011)
• Bazzini, M. and Ferri, D. The Inevitable Figuration: The Painting Scene Today (2013)
• Hoptman, L. The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World (2014)
• Hudson, S. Painting Now (2015)
• Barliant, C. Richard Aldrich: MDD (2017)

Article appearances

• Bellini, A. "Paranorma Pittura," Flash Art Italia (2004)
• Saltz, J. "Dire Diary," The Village Voice (2005)
• Smith, R. "Menace, Glitter and Rock in Visions of Dystopia," The New York Times (2006)
• Klein, J. "Bunch Alliance and Dissolve," Art Papers (2007)
• Butler, C. "Looking Back: Emerging Artists," frieze (2008)
• Rothkopf, S. "Openings: Richard Aldrich," Artforum (2009)
• Fiduccia, J. & Holte, M.N. "New Abstract Painting," Kaleidoscope
• Kitamura, K. "Time Again," Art Monthly (2011)
• Nagoya, S. "September," Flash Art (2012)
• Moore, T. & Coley, B. "Bull Tongue," Arthur (2013)
• Eastham, B. "Painting is a Painting is a Painting," Elephant (2014)
• Caws, M.A. "Seeing it Now," The Brooklyn Rail (2015)
• Sutherland, C. "Richard Aldrich on the plurality of painting," The Japan Times (2016)
• Haddad, N. "Richard Aldrich's Elliptical Paths Through Language," Hyperallergic (2018)
• Tanaka, Y. "Abstraction: Aspects of Contemporary Art," The Japan Times (2019)

References

External links

• Frieze Magazine
• Richard Aldrich exhibitions
• Saatchi Gallery
• Bortolami Gallery