Western Exhibitions
119 N Peoria St, #2A
312.480.8390
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Richard Hull: Night and Day, Courtesy Western Exhibitions
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Mar 26, 2010 – May 1, 2010
Wednesdays–Saturdays (11am–6pm)
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“Richard Hull's current show at Western Exhibitions feels like looking at single frames from an animated film. In his new series of paintings, Hull tries on a more organic, fluid, and somewhat nonsensical form that repeats in variations throughout the exhibition. The high-color palette he has shared with Chicago Imagists (Roger Brown, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke) complements the artist's abandonment of representative forms and the typically architectural paintings for which he's known. Stressing repetition, color, and almost cartoon-like composition, Hull's concerns are instead channeled though meticulous attention to surface detail, pattern, color, and movement. The result is a vibrant, obsessive visual playground — a kind of adventure in the hall of mirrors.”
Beatrice Smigasiewicz, Flavorpill
Western Exhibitions says:
[We] are thrilled to present its first solo show with the renowned painter Richard Hull. Gallery 1 will be devoted to paintings and in Gallery 2, Hull will show one large charcoal drawing of a concentrically repetitive amoeba-like form, two crayon drawings and two watercolors featuring imagery related to his Klein bottle inside/outside concerns. Richard Hull's new works explore spatial relationships, both metaphorically and formally, between the geometric dualities of empty and full spaces. The prevalent imagery, a biomorphic shape that resembles a horse's tail, or when doubled and combined, a Möbius strip, or a Klein bottle, gives viewers the visual sensation of being simultaneously located both inside and out.
