New Paintings by Todd Bradford Richmond

TOPAZ ARTS Visual Arts Program presents
a solo exhibition of New Large-scale Paintings by Todd Bradford Richmond
on view October 24 through December 10, 2021

TOPAZ ARTS, 55-03 39th Avenue in Woodside, NY > directions
viewing hours are by appointment: visit@topazarts.org

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“Painting is no small thing in latest Topaz show”

In his third solo exhibition at TOPAZ ARTS in its 21-year history, founding artist Todd B. Richmond presents his latest body of work. Richmond’s large-scale oil paintings explore the interplay of light, hue, tone, materiality, form, composition, and interact with how viewers experience these qualities. With works that include the Queensboro Bridge Series, Utopia (depicting the Queens home of renowned artist Joseph Cornell), Flowers in the Desert, and Tree SMCP, Richmond’s paintings are a contemporary view of the impact and influence that the subjects have culturally and historically. Such as in featuring Central Park’s Sheep’s Meadow Plain Tree planted in what once was a sheep’s pasture which became a Civil War training area that today is a place of rest and contemplation with nature – the rings of the tree are highlighted alluding to the tree’s knowledge as well as similarity to a human fingerprint.

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About the Artist:
Todd B. Richmond, visual artist, curator, filmmaker, and composer, received his MFA in Fine Arts at Otis College of Art & Design, and California Institute of the Arts/CalArts MFA Graduate Program of Art & Technology; BA from City College of New York in Music & Audio Technology with Film Studies, where he was awarded The ASCAP Foundation Louis Dreyfus Warner/Chappell City College Scholarship honoring George and Ira Gershwin. As a visual artist, he was assistant to renowned artist Richard Artschwager from 1990-95 creating major works for museums and galleries worldwide. Richmond’s large-scale paintings and installations have been shown in NYC and Los Angeles; collaborations in painting and installation with renowned artist Manuel Ocampo at Tyler Rollins Fine Art, NY (2018); solo exhibition at Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; group exhibitions at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA; Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Otis Open Studios; Fountain Art Fair at the Armory, NY, among others. Richmond is a recipient of the 2021 City Artists Corps Grant. view more about the artist >

This event supports the City Artist Corps Grants program, presented by New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) and Queens Theatre. City Artist Corps Grants are intended to support NYC-based working artists who have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, distributing one-time grants to over 3,000 artists to help sustain their practice and engage the public across New York City’s five boroughs.

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