Opening Reception: Beyond the Surface

Please join us for a reception for the artist on Saturday, July 12 | 5-7PM

BIO:

A painter, photographer, film and video artist with a degree from Maryland Institute of Art, Richard Wilson’s work is about the exploration of light. He has lived in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and San Francisco before moving to Vermont in 1983 and has explored film, video and painting. 

Throughout his career Richard Wilson has  sought to bridge the interface between abstract art and photography. Both the photos and drawings are an explanation of our relationship to the subtle energy of light, and the recognition of the infinite mystery of the physical/spiritual reality we inhabit.

His interest in both photographs and drawings lay not in simply capturing or creating an image, but in capturing a broader notion of what is real. He engages in a “dialogue with light”, with both a camera and a computer, searching to capture light, color and energy. That is the essence of his work. 

He uses a 35 mm hand-held camera and slow shutter speeds and often moves the camera during the shot. The images are not cropped.

Richard Wilson is known nationally and is included in several corporate collection, American Express, Dana Farber and the Park Lane Hotel in Boston, Ma; and Merck Pharmaceutical among them. He has exhibited in San Francisco, and New York, as well as closer to home at Simon Pearce in Queechee, VT, the Vermont Supreme Court in Montpelier and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and the Ava Gallery. His studio is in West Lebanon Village, NH. He is also the owner of Richard Wilson Custom Framing.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Both the photos and drawings are an explanation of our relationship to the subtle energy of light, and the recognition of the infinite mystery of the physical/spiritual reality we inhabit.

Everything is in a state of creation¬—whether on a cosmic scale of colliding galaxies,
or as sub-atomic particles dancing about. 
Creation is a communal and cumulative process¬¬.
A creative act is a step, never perfect, never finished —a step in the walk of life.

–Richard Wilson

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