Willy Bo Richardson

Willy Bo Richardson
Willy Bo Richardson
Willy Bo Richardson. Photo credit Jen Fong.
Born (1974-06-08) June 8, 1974
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Education University of Wisconsin, UT Austin, and Pratt Institute
Known for Painting

Willy Bo Richardson (born June 8, 1974) is an American artist who paints vertical strokes of color. Richardson is regarded as one of many contemporary painters revisiting late Modernism.[1] He exhibits his paintings internationally.[2][3]

Early life and education

Richardson was born in Santa Fe, NM. His father was a master wood-worker, and his mother founded the first mediation center in the Southwest. He studied at UW Madison and received a BA from University of Texas at Austin. While at UT Austin, he counted Peter Saul among his teachers.

Living in Philadelphia in 1997, he was writing and painting. Richardson jokes, "I wrote a really bad coming of age novel, and the next year I checked myself in to graduate school for painting at Pratt Institute". He received an MFA there in 2000. He worked as a painting technician at Cooper Union from 2001-2007. He and his wife lived in New York City for a decade.[4]

Career

Richardson is a faculty member at Santa Fe University of Art and Design.[5] In 2011 his work was included in the exhibition at Jason McCoy Gallery in New York titled, "70 Years of Abstract Painting – Excerpts". The show assembled works by a selection of modern and contemporary painters, including Josef Albers, Hans Hofmann and Jackson Pollock. In 2012 he showed a body of work in the exhibition "Watercolors”" at the Phillips de Pury headquarters in Chelsea New York.[6] In 2014 Richardson was selected to be one of the SITE Santa Fe SPREAD finalists. His work and vision was featured on the KNME-TV PBS weekly arts series ¡COLORES!.[7] He is represented by Richard Levy Gallery in Albuquerque.

References

  1. ↑ "Dad why do you paint Stripes?". Pyragraph.
  2. ↑ "The Soul of Santa Fe". DestinAsian. p. 108. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  3. ↑ Fischer, Zane (November 5, 2008). "FROM DARKNESS: LIGHT". Santa Fe Reporter (subscription required). Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  4. ↑ "Willy Bo Richardson: Artist Profile". Santa Fe Art Studio.
  5. ↑ "Studio Arts Faculty". Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  6. ↑ Nazarevskaia, Kristina. "Willy Bo Richardson - Watercolors - galleryIntell". galleryIntell. Retrieved 2016-01-14.
  7. ↑ "Willy Bo Richardson, The Impressionists, Regional Theater, Jack Ross". New Mexico PBS. Retrieved 14 January 2016.



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