" Chris Richter: Tides & Trails"

• Artists:
• Chris Richter

Past Show : Jul 7-Aug 7 2023

"Tides & Trails" continues Richter’s long time "Reveal Series" with a renewed emphasis on the light & color, metallic & iridescent, and warm & cool tones. One of the primary focuses of this work, Richter explains is, “Light as a source of inspiration. Light brings color and insight to all things; a certain kind of truth.” Through his additive and reductive painting process, Richter builds multiple layers of color over extended periods of time, and then goes back into the paint, once dry, and reduces away the color, shaping the image to render his interpretation of light falling on the landscape. With artwork titles like, "Silvery Sea," "Iridescent Shells," "Sea Glass Amber," and "Emerald Glow," you can begin to understand the overtones of the abstract paintings. Another aspect of the work is the redirecting of foreground and background perceptions as his color and form contrasts between warm and cool variances that cohesively contrast and contradict. Through his mark making the landscape is transformed into a feeling or moment of illumination.

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