Richard Hennessy, Richard Hennessy 1974 Colorful Vibrant Abstract Geometric Painting Modernist Art, 1975

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Painting on Paper Hand signed and dated lower right Frame measures 24.5 X 30.5 sheet is 18 X 24 inches … Read more Painting on Paper Hand signed and dated lower right Frame measures 24.5 X 30.5 sheet is 18 X 24 inches This piece has a jewel toned stained glass quality to it. The artist Richard Hennessy creates pictorial space as a complex and contradictory entity. The colorful ground uses alternately concave and convex forms and negative space to indicate overlapping geometric shapes. He works in oil painting, acrylic, watercolor and mixed media. Richard Hennessy, 1972. Born in Rochester, NY, in 1941, Hennessy began as a gifted concert pianist studying at the Eastman School of Music from 1954-1959. He went on to study art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, from 1963-66, after which he began his career as a fine artist. His early paintings were quickly admired and supported by Henry Geldzahler, curator of Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His first exhibition was in 1969 at Olivier Bernier Inc. NYC, followed in 1970 by a show at the Tibor De Nagy Gallery, also in NYC. Over the years he has shown in San Francisco, Indiana, Arizona, Florida, and at other prominent NYC galleries including Robert Miller, Hamilton, John Good and a retrospective at NYU’s Grey Gallery. Aaron Copeland, America’s foremost composer, and John Ashberry, America’s premier poet, were early champions of his work. He is in NYC collections of the Brooklyn, Metropolitan, Guggenheim and Whitney Museums, as well as the Copland Manor house in Cortland NY, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Albright Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and many others. He has been the recipient of grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation and the Ann & Erlo Van Waveron Foundations. Art critic Roberta Smith called his work “ironic, lyrical abstraction.” Critic Christopher Scott: “Hennessy has, unlike many modern artists, not ignored the history of art, and his works are enriched by the paintings, sculptures, buildings, decorative arts, photographs, films, music and literature that he immersed himself in. He has harnessed the power of his talent and intelligence for artistic purposes leading to virtuoso maximalist. He has applied this intelligence with the same adventurousness of spirit visible in the early abstractions of Hans Hofmann and Willem de Kooning, spontaneous yet precise.” Education Eastman School of Music, 1954-59 Columbia College, B.A., 1963 Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1963-66 Solo Exhibitions 1991 Margulies/Taplin Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL 1989 Ball State University, Muncie, IN 1986 Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo 1986 John Good Gallery, New York 1985 Getler/Pall/Saper Gallery, New York 1983 Hamilton Gallery, New York 1982 Hamilton Gallery, New York 1981 Ivory Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco 1980 Hamilton Gallery, New York 1978 Robert Miller Gallery, New York 1976 Retrospective Exhibition, Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York 1976 Olivier Bernier, Inc., New York 1970 Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York 1969 Olivier Bernier, Inc., New York Group Exhibitions 2021 Cincinnati Art Museum "American Painting: The Eighties Revisited" (important show included Nancy Graves, Sam Gilliam, Elizabeth Murray, Mark Schlesinger, Louisa Chase, Joan Thorne and Robert Moskowitz 2014 Geoffrey Young Gallery "Elements of Style" Gt. Barrington, MA 2007 Ville de Reims "Global Books: Les Livres d'Artiste de Gervais Jassaud" 2006 “Abstract Landscapes”, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY 2006 “My Friends-Their Vision” , Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT 2000 “Aaron Copland’s America” The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY 1997 “La Tentation du Livre”, Espace Culturel de Tinqueux, France 1992 The Artist, The Writer And The Book Design (Artists's Books from Collectif Génération), Columbia University, New York 1992 Group Show, Margulies/Taplin Gallery, Miami 1991 Abstract Painting: The 90's, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York 1991 Livres d'Artistes of Collectif Génération, French Cultural Services, New York 1991 Contemporary Art, Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of Florida at Gainesville Gainesville, FL 1991 Richard Hennessy and Jeffrey Wasserman, Nina Freudenheim Gallery Buffalo 1990 The Painter and his Occasion, curated by Alan Jones, Marta Cervera Gallery New York 1989 Small Paintings, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo 1988 Five Painters, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo Public Collections Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York American Telephone and Telegraph Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Centro Cultural, Museo Contemporaneo, Mexico City Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio Dow Jones Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York I. T. & T. Italian Relief Fund J.P.Morgan Chase Jack S. Blanton Museum,University of Texas, Austin Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York MoMA/P.S.1, stairwell mural New York University, New York Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona Reader's Digest Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of Florida at Gainesville San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Shimizu Construction, Tokyo Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York The Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, California The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut See less