Known for Painting Name Willy Richardson | Education Pratt Institute | |
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Born June 8, 1974 (age 49) ( 1974-06-08 ) Santa Fe, New Mexico | ||
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Willy Bo Richardson (born June 8, 1974) is an American artist who paints vertical strokes of color. Richardson is regarded as one of many contemporary painters revisiting late Modernism. He exhibits his paintings internationally.
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- Nmpbs colores willy bo richardson
- Willy bo richardson studio artist portrait element media santa fe
- Early life and education
- Career
- References
Willy bo richardson studio artist portrait element media santa fe
Early life and education
Richardson was born in Santa Fe, NM. His father was a master wood-worker, and his mother founded the first mediation center in the Southwest. He studied at UW Madison and received a BA from University of Texas at Austin. While at UT Austin, he counted Peter Saul among his teachers.
Living in Philadelphia in 1997, he was writing and painting. Richardson jokes, "I wrote a really bad coming of age novel, and the next year I checked myself in to graduate school for painting at Pratt Institute". He received an MFA there in 2000. He worked as a painting technician at Cooper Union from 2001-2007. He and his wife lived in New York City for a decade.
Career
Richardson is a faculty member at Santa Fe University of Art and Design. In 2011 his work was included in the exhibition at Jason McCoy Gallery in New York titled, "70 Years of Abstract Painting – Excerpts". The show assembled works by a selection of modern and contemporary painters, including Josef Albers, Hans Hofmann and Jackson Pollock. In 2012 he showed a body of work in the exhibition "Watercolors”" at the Phillips de Pury headquarters in Chelsea New York. In 2014 Richardson was selected to be one of the SITE Santa Fe SPREAD finalists. His work and vision was featured on the KNME-TV PBS weekly arts series ¡COLORES!. He is represented by Richard Levy Gallery in Albuquerque.
