Richard Pitts
United States of America
Artist Member since 2007
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Richard Pitts
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"Gaia" 56in x 45 in 2006-7 woodcut on fabiano mounted on wood support
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"Leaping Lizard" 2007 woodcut mounted on wood support
48 in x 54 in
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The works here are woodcuts on Fabriano Paper mounted on wood supports. They are approxamately 6-9 lbs. They are relief sculptures that sit off the wall about 5 inches in depth. They will be featured in an exhibtion this Nov. 2007 at the Walter Wickiser Gallery in the Chealsea area of New York City
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Excerpt from catalog for the Walter Wickiser Gallery;
I was reminded of both Jean Dubuffet and Roy Lichtenstein when I first saw the work of Richard Pitts, who makes his reliefs and totems out of woodcuts mounted on wood supports. He shares with both a certain childlike goofiness-a love of cartoony shapes and bright clear colors-but in keeping his language purely abstract he leaves open the possibility of multiple readings. Is that a bird's head or the neck of a fiddle? A lightning bolt or a drunken snake? But then again, why bother to assign real-world equivalents when the works just asked to be loved for their own buoyant personalities?
It seems strange to think of sculpture as “lovable”; though it often invites touch, sculpture is seldom what one would call “touchy-feely” or even “warm.” Yet this artist makes work that is human and humane in scale and invites us, if only for a brief time, to lighten up and enjoy the trip.
Ann Landi is a contributing editor of ARTnews and the author of the Schirmer Encyclopedia of Art.
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