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Richard Aldrich

Working within an expanded definition of painting, Richard Aldrich’s works alternate between expressing an abundance of visual information, and material reticence; a kind of withholding of their contents. In this way, they are like complex psychic environments that, like most minds, are in more than one world at once: the internal and the external. Occupied with the minutiae of an idiosyncratic personal existence – a self-contained system of meaning – his works are situated in private dialogue with himself and with painting that occasionally unveils itself to the viewer. At the same time, however, they are very much outward facing, seeking communication and exchange. His imagery might range from richly dappled abstractions in oil and wax, to a primed canvas containing purely a line written by British psychiatrist Henry Maudsley in 1918. Such variation in imagery is matched by radical interventions into the materiality of the painting itself, such as physically dismantling the canvas, which he often incises to create insertable pockets or to expose the stretcher bars behind the canvas. As such, the focus of an exhibition by Aldrich is on the shifting states from one work to the next. Like fluctuating frames of mind, each work presents a different set of propositions which may simultaneously clarify and confound their neighbouring works. Within these contextual shifts, Aldrich’s exhibitions are constellations of interrelated, but heterogeneous parts that reflect on each other to create different levels of potential understanding, which, in a broader sense, seek to consider how intelligence is attributed to objects in the act of interpreting them.

Richard Aldrich was born in 1975 in Hampton, VA, and lives and works in New York City. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Fondazione Giuliani, Rome (2022); Modern Art, London (2021); Museum Dhondt- Dhaenens, Deurle (2016); SFMOMA, San Francisco (2011); and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2011). He has participated in recent group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Busan (2022); the National Museum of Art, Osaka (2019); Aïshti Foundation, Beirut (2018); and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2018). Aldrich’s works are held in collections including MoMA, New York; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; SFMOMA, San Francisco; the Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, UK; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Press
Biography
An eternal void of external need, 2022-2023 (detail)
Henry Maudsley Painting, 2012
enamel on dibond, 213.2 x 145.6 cm, 84 x 57 3/8 in
1/3
Black Collage Painting, 2019 (2009, 2012, 2014)
charcoal, spray rubber on linen, oil and wax on plexi glass, 208.5 x 188 cm, 82 1/8 x 74 1/8 in
1/4
Untitled, 2023
oil and wax on linen 208.3 x 134.6 cm 82 x 53 in
1/2
Too often the art and ideas exist on the same plane, 2018 (text 2006)
oil, wax and fabric on linen, 213.4 x 147.3 cm, 84 x 58 in
1/3
A Physical Manifestation of the Journey Through Exaltation, 2022
oil and wax on linen, 208.3 x 134.6 x 3.8 cm, 82 x 53 x 1 1/2 in
1/3
Ptah, 2020-21
oil and wax on cut linen with felt, 208.3 x 134.6 cm, 82 x 53 in
Cabinet II, 2019
found object, mirror and electronics, 188 x 91.4 x 50.8 cm, 74 1/8 x 36 x 20 in
1/3
Secret Knowledge, 2021
wood, acrylic and modelling grass, 6 x 19.5 x 25 cm, 2 3/8 x 7 5/8 x 9 7/8 in
1/4
Diorama, 2019
glass, dirt, fine objects, dimensions variable
1/4
The Ascension of knowledge, as was foretold, 2020
oil and wax on linen, 208.3 x 188 cm, 82 x 74 in
1/3
Untitled, 2019 (2010)
oil, wax, enamel and linen on linen, 208.5 x 135 cm, 82 1/8 x 53 1/8 in
1/2
Untitled, 2023
oil and wax on panel, 52.1 x 33 cm, 20 1/2 x 13 in
1/2
The ballad of Syd Barrett: time, sensitivity, and the looming inevitable, 2023 (2000)
found objects on linen, 208.3 x 134.6 cm, 82 x 53 in
1/3
Shadowrun ed. 1-5, 2015
books, dimensions variable
1/3
Untitled, 2021
oil and wax on panel, 52.1 x 33 cm, 20 1/2 x 13 in
1/4
Untitled, 2018 (2007, 2009)
oil and wax on wood, fabric, on linen, 213.5 x 147.5 cm, 84 1/8 x 58 1/8 in
1/3
Modern Art, 2019
Three Movies: Hero, Raise the Red Lantern and Vuillard's The Staircase Landing, rue de Miromesnil, 2023-24 (detail)

Press

WhitewallRichard Aldrich Plays with Abstraction and Figuration in Shadow Run, 19 December 2022
Artforum1 September 2019
HyperallergicRichard Aldrich's Elliptical Paths Through Language, 14 April 2018
Art in AmericaIn the Studio: Richard Aldrich, 1 February 2015
Annual Magazine1 January 2013
ArtforumA Progression of Forms, 1 June 2012
Artforum1 May 2011
Frieze1 October 2010
New York Times6 February 2009
Brooklyn Rail28 February 2009
InterviewQuestionnaire: Richard Aldrich is Serious!, 1 January 2009
Artforum1 March 2009
Artforum1 April 2009
MousseComing from many Places, 1 May 2009
Modern Painters1 December 2007

Biography

Richard Aldrich

Born in Hampton, VA, USA, 1975 Lives and works in New York, NY, USA

Education

1998
BFA
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

Solo Exhibitions

2024
Double Gemini
Gladstone Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (forthcoming)
Remembering Childhood
Modern Art, London
2022
ShadowrunGladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Misako & Rosen
Tokyo, Japan
2021
Modern Art
London
2020
Gladstone Gallery
Brussels, Belgium
2019
Modern Art
London
Misako & Rosen
Tokyo, Japan
2018
Enter the Mirror
Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2017
Adrian Rosenfeld Gallery
San Francisco, CA, USA
Fun House
dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
2016
MDDMuseum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
Eight Paintings
Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
Time Stopped, Time Started
Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2014
dépendance
Brussels, Belgium
Gladstone Gallery
Brussels, Belgium
2013
Twins
Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
The Words of Tuck Tuck Tuck
Karma, New York, NY, USA
Forget Your Dreams, All You Need is Love / A Day in the Life
Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2012
Half of What I Say
dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
2011
New Work: Richard AldrichSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francsico, CA, USA
Once I Was…
Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Museo
Corvi-Mora, London
2009
Richard Aldrich and the 19th Century French PaintingContemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA
2010
Slide Paintings
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Misako & Rosen
Tokyo, Japan
2009
dépendance
Brussels, Belgium
Art Statements
Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Bortolami Gallery
New York, NY, USA
2008
Narrative with 5 Characters
Corvi-Mora, London
2007
Marc Foxx
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Paintings
Roger Björkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2006
Corvi-Mora
London
2004
Olivier Kamm/5BE Gallery
New York, NY, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023
South Willard, curated by Matt Connors and Matt Paweski
Gordon Robichaux, New York, NY, USA
Artists Choose Parrish, Part IIIParrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY, USA
Modern Art
Paris, France
To Bend the Ear of the Outer World, curated by Gary Garrels
Gagosian, London
Beautiful, Vivid, Self-Contained, curated by David Salle
Hill Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA
Artists for Artists Space
Artists Space, New York, NY, USA
Fusion in Serendipity
YANG ARTS, Taipei, Taiwan
Di Semplicità e di brivido
P420, Bologna, Italy
Entre Centre et Absence
Loong Mah, New York, NY, USA
An Exhibition with Little Information
Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, South Korea
My Pick
Cadan Yurakucho, Tokyo, Japan
2021
Group Show
Modern Art, London
"Abstraction!"
Cadan Yurakucho, Tokyo, Japan
New Visions: After De Keyser
David Zwirner, OVR, Hong Kong
Approaches to Painting - Reprise
Root K Contemporary, Tokyo, Japan
2020
J U N E
dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Abstraction: Aspects of Contemporary ArtNational Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2019
Richard Aldrich, William Carlos Williams, No Moss
Parapet Real Humans, St. Louis, MO, USA
Another Music In a Different Kitchen: Studio Recordings & Records by Artists
Karma Bookstore, New York, NY, USA
United Brothers Fukushima Android Series Franchise
Green Tea Gallery, Paris, France
2018
Trance, curated by Albert Oehlen
Aïshti Foundation, Antelias, Lebanon
The Fragrance of Images: Works from colección olorVISUAL, BarcelonaKunst- und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Rüsselsheim am Main, Germany
Use Your Illusion
Herald St, London
Defacement, curated by Amanda Schmitt
The Club, Tokyo, Japan
Inherent StructureWexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA
The Myriad Forms of Visual Arts: 196 Works with 19 ThemesThe National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Doyers
New York, NY, USA
Let’s See Action, curated by Misako & Rosen
Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA
2017
Social Surfaces
Artists Space, New York, NY, USA
Children’s Games, curated by Vincenzo de BellisFondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, Bolzano, Italy
Get Outta That Spaceship and Fight Like a Man
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Collectors Home
Avlskarl, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021
Sydney, Australia
University of Disasters
Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Thinking Out Loud: Notes for an Evolving CollectionThe Rachofsky Collection at The Warehouse, Dallas, TX, USA
Condo 2017
dépendance at Maureen Paley, London
2016
Art is Not a Competition, (Kaiga no tabi’06-’16)
Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Painters’ Painters
Saatchi Gallery, London
Nice Weather
Skarstedt, New York, NY, USA
The Lasting Concept, curated by Rob Halverson
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, USA
Galerie Natalie Seroussi at dépendence
dépendence, Brussels, Belgium
2015
Teoría del Duende
Centro Federico García Lorca, Granada, Spain
Works on Paper
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Radiants, curated by Jacob King and UNITED BROTHERS
Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, USA
New Acquisitions
The Whitworth, The University of Manchester, Manchester
2014
Hypothesis for an Exhibition
Dominique Lévy, New York, NY, USA
Biennale of Painting: The Touch of the PainterMuseum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
Abstract Possibilities 2
Bjorkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
The Hawker
Carlos/Ishikawa, London
Stars + Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century from the Goldberg Collection
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW, travelling to: Grafton Regional Art Gallery, Grafton, NSW (2015); Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney, NSW (2015); Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra, NSW (2015); Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree, NSW (2015-16); Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, NSW (2016); Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW (2016); Latrobe Regional Art Gallery, Morwell, VIC (2016); Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich, QLD, Australia (2016)
Painting: A Love StoryContemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX, USA
2013
My Crippled Friend
Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH, USA
Why Not Live For Art? II
Tokyo City Opera, Tokyo, Japan
Roving Signs
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY, USA
10 Years
Wallspace, New York, NY, USA
Inevitable Figuration
Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, Prato, Italy
LAT. 41° 7' N., LONG. 72° 19' W
Martos Gallery, East Marion, NY, USA
2012
Out Of The Blue
Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Twenty Years After
Björkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
September
Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
If There Would Be a Face, This Would Be a Cat
dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
SoundworksInstitute of Contemporary Arts, London
How Do It Know
Essex Street, New York, NY, USA
Contemporary Painting, 1960 to the Present: Selections from the SFMoMA CollectionSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Risk + Reward
Foster Gallery at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI, USA
2011
The 2011 Bridgehampton Biennial
Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY, USA
Straw
Hannah Barry Gallery, London
Catalogue of the Exhibition
Triple V Gallery, Paris, France
Time AgainSculpture Center, New York, NY, USA
With One Color
Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
Provisional Painting, curated by Raphael Rubinstein
Modern Art, London
Five Easy Pieces
Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art From the Dicke Collection
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, USA
Rational Abstraction
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2010
Painting Extravaganza
Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy
Re-Dressing
Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, USA
New Work From New York
Golden Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Gradation
Portugal Arte 10, Lisbon, Portugal
Next Generation, curated by Konrad BitterliKunstmuseum St.Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Le Tableau
Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA
Exhibition #3
The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY, USA
Feint Art
Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Whitney Biennial 2010Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Off The Wall
Gustavsbergs Konsthall, Gustavsberg, Sweden
2009
Doors
Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture
The Kitchen, New York, NY, USA
Cave Painting Installment #1
Gresham's Ghost, New York, NY, USA
Richard Aldrich, Zak Prekop, Lesley Vance
Roger Björkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
My Summer Show
Galerie Lelong, New York, NY, USA
Abstractionists Unite! Who Give You Just Enough To Last a Lifetime
The Glendale College of Art Gallery, Glendale, CA, USA
Cave Painting
PSM Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Collection of...
White Columns, New York, NY, USA
Strip/Stripe
The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY, USA
House Call
Three's Company, New York, NY, USA
2008
Sphinxx, curated by Alexis Vaillant
Modern Art, London
Catawampus (for H.D.)
Midway Contemporary Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Here's Why Patterns, Here's Why Patterns
Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan
Black Noise
Centre National Edition Art Image, Chatou, France
2007
Black Noise
MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
Catawampus (for H.D.)
Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
People Take Pictures of Each Other
LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
Laying Bricks
Wallspace, New York, NY, USA
Bastard Creature
Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France
Abstract Paintings and a Sculpture
Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY, USA
Richard Aldrich & Meredyth Sparks
Elizabeth Dee, New York, NY, USA
Beneath the Underdog
Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Painting as Fact, Fact as Fiction, curated by Bob Nickas
de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland
M R A I T C T H A A N M D Y
The Mandrake, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Back Room
Celda Contemporánea, Mexico City, Mexico
2006
Bunch Alliance and Dissolve
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Music is a Better NoiseP.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, USA
Flesh Records
Haswellediger, New York, NY, USA
An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY, USA
Endless Summer
West London Projects, London
Audio
Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva, Switzerland
2004
Surfing the Surface
Galleria Paolo Bonzano, Rome, Italy
Supports
Roger Björkholmen Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Marc Foxx
Los Angeles, CA, USA
2005
Richard Aldrich + Paul-Aymar Mourgue d’Algue
Galleria Paolo Bonzano, Rome, Italy
Marc Foxx
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Lesser New York
Fia Backstrom Production, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Greater New York 2005P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, USA
KA/VH:RA/AG
Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Marc Foxx
Los Angeles, CA, USA
2003
The Club in the Shadow
Kenny Schachter Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Selected Performances

2013
An American Tuk Tuk in Paris
Green Tea Gallery, Paris, France
2012
A Ridding
Regina Rex, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2011
Mandolin
Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Selected Collections

Aïshti Foundation
Antelias, Lebanon
Il Giardino dei Lauri
San Litardo, Città della Pieve, Italy
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
Deurle, Belgium
Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY, USA
National Museum of Art
Osaka, Japan
The Rachofsky Collection
The Warehouse, Dallas, TX, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA, USA
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, D.C., USA
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY, USA
The Whitworth Art Gallery
University of Manchester, Manchester