Brent Richardson’s First Solo Exhibition On The East End At The Arts Center at Duck Creek

The Arts Center at Duck Creek

(https://www.duckcreekarts.org/) is thrilled to present the first solo exhibition on the East End by artist Brent Richardson. The exhibition titled Everything and Nothing, will be on display in the Little Gallery from Saturday, June 27 through Sunday, August 2 with an opening reception on June 27 from 5 to 7 p.m.

The exhibition will feature a series of monochromatic drawings and oil paintings that feel surreal, futuristic, and urgently alive. Richardson draws on the speed, light, and seduction of custom car culture, music, and film to propel his illusionistic forms through their own gestural orbit at Formula One velocity.

Jean-Christophe Castelli, son of Leo Castelli who gave Richardson his debut show in 1987, brilliantly describes Richardson’s work as having eyes that “point in all different directions—to art of the past (Matta, early Mondrian), psychedelic comics and posters, the duck-rabbit optical illusions of Jasper Johns, B Movies, hot rods, Loony Tunes and Popeye, all dancing around to a dissonant, surf-guitar soundtrack.”

It is worthwhile to note that the coastal landscape of Montauk, where the artist lives, paints and surfs, also appears in these works not as subject matter, but as atmosphere… A tidal stage for his restless cosmic glyphs.