Reworked Paintings 3

Little Diomede Island (1985-2005)

I long felt that this image of a newly emerging volcanic island lacked suitable drama, so after twenty years I added the fiery lava flows and the spotted pink beach and glowing cloud above the summit.

Little Diomede Island  detail

Reworked paintings 4.

 Recently I reworked two of the earliest paintings from my New York period, to add color and greater definition to the elements in the composition.

1. Revolution 1966.

before

as reworked 2021

2. 15th St. 1965.

before

as reworked 2021

Incident on Rte 140

Incident on Rte 140

This is another in my Lines and Tracks series from the 1980s, this taken from a post disaster scene, that piqued my later interest in recording the broken lines and structures, ephemeral atmospheric and textural effects created by such events. 

Dark Angel Poster

Dark Angel Poster 1979

Another early "disaster" painting based on scenes from a fire in midtown New York City, in which I imposed the effects of smoke and stained facades against underlying irregular geometric or grid like forms.

Reworked Paintings 2

Teocalli Two: Fire and Blood   1980/2012 

Teocalli Two: Fire and Blood. detail

This was originally entitled Teocalli Two, a follow up to an earlier painting, Teocalli One, based on images of Aztec temples.  In 2012, I added Fire and Blood to the imagery as well as the title.

Teocalli One (1980)

Reworked paintings 1

Intersection 1980

This is one in an occasional series on earlier paintings that I have later reworked.

NY 66

I recently came across several photographs of scarred walls and abandoned storefronts, many with graffiti, that I had taken in 1966 while at NYU.  

Some of these, or parts of them, were incorporated into paintings and prints, others stand alone as striking images. Still more may reappear in the future!

Billy 1966

Blue Spiral 1966

Bumba 1966

Teds wall 1966

New York: Mini Collages 1966/67

Fifty years ago in New York, in addition to painting and printmaking I created a series of (very) small collages, which until now have never seen the light of day. 
Like some of my paintings of that period (see the previous recent posts) many of these collages employ graphic and text elements.
Here is a selection of these, scanned on a larger scale to reveal the detail (most are only a few inches in any dimension)

35th St Breakdown (1966)  3' x 5'

   

South on Third (1966) 2' x 3.7'                                 Ave A (1967) 2' x 3'

   

0782 (1966/7) 1' x 3'.                 TISH (1966/7)  1' x 3'.

text and images © 2016 Richard D. Perry

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New York 1965 - 1967. Part Three

Living as we did just off Union Square above the Village, we often crisscrossed the square, notable mainly for its low end storefronts and grungy subway station. In the sixties it was less than chic, although Andy Warhol's Factory and Max's Kansas City made their appearance there.
But its main occupant at the time was S. Klein, a fading discount emporium on the east side of the square with a garish front.  Eventually it closed and the boarded up front was a sorry sight.
I could not resist painting it.

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text and images © 2016 by Richard D. Perry.  Not to be reproduced without permission.

New York 1965 - 1967. Part Two

Here are three other paintings from the sixties, all created in New York City and reflecting the cityscape of the time (before Soho and Tribeca, etc)

15th St. 1965



79th St. 1967



Shoes.  1967

text and images © 2016 by Richard D. Perry.  Not to be reproduced without permission.

New York 1965 - 1967. Part One

I arrived in New York from England in 1965 to study at New York University and the Pratt Graphic Arts Institute. 
Prior to my arrival I had been focusing on printmaking, but living in the city near Greenwich Village and newly exposed to the exciting and rapidly changing urban culture and art world of New York, I rented space in a communal loft studio and began painting again.
Painting for the first time on canvas and now incorporating collage using graphics, found objects and torn playbills, my work, although still structured, took on a much looser, more textured look. 

I have already featured some paintings from these years on this blog, but here are three never before shown:

  

Revolution. 1966                                        FIVE. 1967

Jack. 1967

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text and images © 2016 by Richard D. Perry.  Not to be reproduced without permission.
see my earlier New York paintings

Last Lines Across

Last Lines Across.   2014 58" x 41"

This canvas, completed in 2014, aims to incorporate and summarize many of the themes and techniques I have attempted to address in my paintings over the past few years.

Richard D. Perry  April 2015

New Paintings 2014

  

                                      This Way Over  (60 x 21)                                 That Way Across  (60 x 21)   

A pair of narrow, vertical canvases with dense horizontal layering, with a darker and more muted range of color and movement than my Dancing Mesas of earlier this year.

images © 2014 Richard D. Perry.  All rights reserved 

Recent Paintings: Dancing Mesas 2014

A follow up to my earlier Alkali Playa, this experimental painting uses a variety of media including house paint, spray paint and water based dyes as well as artist's acrylic colors.

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Recent Paintings — Apollo

Apollo (2013)

This new painting is based, like Obidos, on walls of character—this one the lone surviving wall of the Roman temple of Apollo in Sicily.

Recent Paintings—Alkali Playa

Alkali Playa © Richard Perry 2013

Recent Paintings — Ring Five

Ring Five (2013)   60" x 24"   $2000. 00 

This is the last of my RING paintings, finished 5/13.

There are three in the series, which may be displayed individually or together as a triptych:

Ring Seven 2010

Ring Six 2013  

Paintings: $2000 each. $5000 for all three (stretched, unframed)

Recent Paintings — Ring Six

This is the second in my RING series, this one painted in 2013.

Prints: Deerstone

In another, smaller group of water based monotypes from 2006, entitled Deerstone, I used a similar format to the Stela series, but experimented with a cut out template that allowed for an even larger range of colors and textures within a single print—with unforeseen and often pleasing results!

 

 

images © Richard D. Perry

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Prints: Stelae

I have already posted some prints I made in connection with particular paintings.

Although in the past I have worked with traditional printmaking techniques such as lithography and etching, sometimes combining the two, between 2004 and 2006 I produced several series of monoprints using water based rather than conventional oil based inks.

This technique allowed me to recreate some of the watercolor like effects that I have used in my stained paintings for many years.   Although this method does not allow true editions to be made, it is precisely the somewhat unpredictable effects produced from one impression to another that held the greater appeal for me.

In this post I show several in the Stela series of 2006, in which I combined small woodcuts of ancient Mexican motifs within free flowing haloes of various hues.

  

 

 

images © Richard D. Perry

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