John Richey

Born in Brooklyn, NY, Works in Brooklyn, NY

BIO

John Richey is a New York based visual artist who works between Brooklyn, NY and the Hudson Valley. His cross-disciplinary practice is process-driven and incorporates cyanotype, handmade video animations, and immersive installations using themes and images borrowed from various personal collections. He holds multiple degrees, has exhibited domestically and abroad, and was profiled in Artforum Internationals “Best of 2004”. Richey has held professional titles in New York at Marian Goodman Gallery, Greene Naftali Gallery, the Keith Haring Foundation, and Pace Gallery.

You'll like John if: you love staring up at the sky and watching the clouds

I make cyanotype works about how themes of stability and entropy can coexist in a single discrete artwork. This collection of unique works reference the natural world and alludes to the fleeting ephemerality of the spaces around us. Each vibrant blue and white composition recalls a memory or essence; wispy cloud formations as viewed through a window screen, liquid drips on a car window after the rain, and distorted swimming pool tiles as glimpsed through the surface of shimmering water.

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