Richard Aldrich

Richard Aldrich is an abstract painter who expresses his whirlwind creativity by way of oil paint, minerals, charcoal, wax, cloth, and cardboard. His gessoed canvases embody an improvised experience of the world, integrating strong swipes of a palate knife and personal detritus on a regular basis. Rather than predetermine placement or implement a method of organization, Aldrich embraces the psychological associations and emotional potential of his additive or subtractive choices. Aldrich’s paintings also stem from his musical and literary background—they produce an immediate, almost unconscious, sensation while provoking the viewer to revisit their groupings in order to understand the artist’s consciousness over time. He hopes to communicate an elliptical experience, one that is as much about the psychological states implied in images as well as his own self-actualization.

Aldrich has exhibited at Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, Houston, Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, Prato, Italy, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis, ICA in London, Sculpture Center in New York, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, and the Kadist Art Foundation in Paris, among others. He has also participated in the Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 2014, the 2010 Whitney Biennial, and Greater New York at MoMA PS 1 in 2005.