Richard Currier

Painting, 2009 Best of Show

On Exhibit: January 2 – February 13, 2021
Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 10 AM – 4 PM

First Saturday Receptions: January 2 and February 6, 4 PM – 7 PM

Artist Talk: January 23, 11 AM, Atlantic Center for the Arts at Harris House, 214 S. Riverside Drive, New Smyrna Beach, FL.

Richard Currier – Passage 60×72 oil on canvasPassage 60x72 oil on canvas

Richard Currier – Last Stand 72×48 oil on panelLast Stand 72x48 oil on panel

Richard Currier – Heavy Is the Head 60×42 oil on panelHeavy Is the Head 60x42 oil on panel

Richard has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and is represented in several museums, as well as prestigious collections domestically and abroad.

Richard Currier has always been drawn towards dramatic imagery that uses contrasting elements of color, shape and space.  Richard paints until the objects become more than what they are.  Although ‘realism’ is not necessarily the goal, this seems to result in a heightened reality to the images.  Richard enjoys the balance of positive and negative space, pulling imagery from the space as well as pushing space back to expose the form.  To Richard, the subject of his paintings has always been the fusion of light and form.  The subjects carry light and form within the space and provide a reference for the viewer.  This relation of artwork and viewer is very important.  Art is incomplete without its audience.

“Throughout my  career I have explored a variety of subjects in various representational styles; however, the true subject of my paintings has always been the fusion of light and atmosphere”

Atlantic Center for the Arts at Harris House, 214 S. Riverside Drive, New Smyrna Beach, FL.

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