Piece description from the artist
So at this moment of giving up, this moment of liminal space, of neither here nor there – that is the moment I wish to capitalize on in my painting practice. Neither here nor there. Skilled and unskilled. I have been painting “stripes” for more than 2 decades and I still don’t know what I’m doing. They still aren’t stripes by the way. The point when we acknowledge our personal limitations, with awareness of striving and fear, there is chance to open up to space. The moment, the materials, the thing happening in space, is so much greater than what any one of us can bring to the table individually. Yet all are granted permission. Better stated, it is our birthright. The great Mahamudra masters can hang on this space in the battle field. The novice may have a glimpse during meditation. I attempt to practice in the rarified environment of making paintings.
Willy Richardson lived and worked in New York City for a decade, where he immersed himself in the international art scene, earning his M.F.A. in painting from Pratt Institute in 2000.
In 2011 Richardson's work was included in “70 Years of Abstract Painting” at Jason McCoy Gallery in New York, which assembled works by modern and contemporary painters, including Josef Albers, Hans Hofmann and Jackson Pollock. In 2012 he exhibited a body of watercolors at Phillips auction house in New York. Richardson's work and vision was featured on the PBS weekly arts series ¡COLORES!. He was honored to be one of the eight SITE Santa Fe SPREAD finalists in 2014. He exhibits his paintings nationally and his work is found in prestigious collections including the Albuquerque Museum.
Richard Levy Gallery wrote: “Richardson stretches vertical bands of color so intense across each canvas that they seem to crackle like neon. Gripping the viewer, a humming field suspends the sensation of time. He has described his act of painting as a sort of meditation, a give-and-take with gravity and the universal laws that determine our experience of the physical world.”
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