Closing Reception: Friday, Oct 2, 6-8pm

Join us for the closing reception!

Mind Field: Oil and Oranges
a solo exhibition of large-scale paintings by Todd Bradford Richmond
TOPAZ ARTS, 55-03 39th Avenue, NYC directions >

Closing reception on Friday, Oct 2, 6-8pm
Admission is free. RSVP on Facebook >

Featuring live music with special guests:
Andrew Smiley, guitarist and improvisor
with Giacomo Merega, electric bass

Join us for the closing reception of the solo exhibition Mind Field: Oil and Oranges by artist Todd B. Richmond on Fri, Oct 2,6-8pm – with special musical guests Andrew Smiley, guitarist, and Giacomo Merega, electric bass.

Andrew and Giacomo will be improvising a few pieces, reacting to the paintings and the space. Leaving  a few minutes between each piece to allow the music to dissolve and the images to once again take over – pointing the improvisation to the following soundscape.

About the guest artists:
Giacomo Merega, electric bassist, composer and improviser is one of the most original voices in the current NYC improv scene. He has recorded for labels such as Hat Hut, Not Two, Rudi and Underwolf and has performed internationally. Giacomo collaborates with Joe Morris, Anthony Coleman, David Tronzo, Kip Hanrahan, Nate Wooley among many other prominent artists.

Andrew Smiley is a guitarist and improvisor living in New York. His playing can be heard on a handful of releases, including two albums with the band Little Women (Throat and Lung released by Aum Fidelity). He plays shows often with a diverse array of musicians and plans to put out a solo guitar album in 2016.

About the Exhibition >
With an extended showing as part of our 15th year celebration, TOPAZ ARTS is pleased to present the first solo exhibition by founding artist Todd B. Richmond 
in a new series of large-scale paintings “Mind Field: Oil and Oranges”. These inspired works, created while in Southern California, are at once lush with color and imagery against the materials of exposed linen, oil paint, aluminum and tar. Conceptually depicting arboretums, oil fields, and urban elements, the work surveys the dichotomy of land use and natural resources, capturing the fading era of coastal citrus orchards now dwindling due to drought and development.
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Read the review of the exhibition: “Amid drought, pieces resurrect a shrinking bounty”
by Cristina Schreil, Queens Chronicle: Arts, Culture & Living > read full article

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