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Richard White studied ceramics, sculpture and painting at Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, Rhode Island,and was graduated from there with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 1969. For the next fifteen years, he taught Fine Arts and Design both in the US and abroad and exhibited in group and one-person shows, in addition to commissioned work. White returned to academia to earn graduate degrees in Education, focusing on Facilitative Management and has since been working in the corporate world while developing his art. He maintains a studio in Berkeley, California. White works in mixed media, with acrylics, stains, paper, fibers and fabrics. For years he has been influenced by the horizon line and the layers upon which human kinds' relationship to it evolves....not only our physical but our spiritual juxtaposition to this seemingly ever changing and frequently invisible line. His work intersects and molds space, it pushes and pulls form, and internalizes a sometimes subtle horizon, into explosive infinity. He is clearly an abstract expressionist, as each painting grows within and on itself in the process. Each mark becomes a beginning of the next in the evolution of his work on the painting surface. A painting is a metaphysical phenomenon to White, with each stroke creating the tension and the integrity of the developing form. The process is the energy which builds on itself. The final image is an imprint, if you will, of the synergistic structure. Viewers will do themselves a disservice if they try to find subjective images in his work rather than experience the metaphysical ideology that is inherent in each painting. Roger Mandle, of Rhode Island School of Design, says of White's recent work, "The gestures that deconstruct geometric forms in the background are wonderful, and set up an exuberant ambiguity about space, making the plane of the painting disappear and reappear in tantalizing ways." For White, his work creates a journey. He says of it, "It's meant to draw you in and envelope your senses and your spirit with each layer." It demands attention. His work does not stop at the edge...it forces your mind beyond the boundaries of the work itself. Each painting becomes a part of the giant universal puzzle, and each is part of the one before it and the beginning of the next. [top] |
