Richard Tuttle

Richard Tuttle (b. 1941) has exhibited in hundreds of solo shows in museums and galleries around the world since he began his career in 1965. A minimalist and conceptualist, Tuttle's work ranges from drawings to wall constructions to paintings to sculptures and livres d'artiste, in a wide variety of media.

"...Tuttle's work is most immediately and clearly perceived on an intuitive, physical, experimental level; it is 'felt' rather than understood', and lends itself to a powerful, often transcendental physical assimilation rather than to verbal analysis." - Marcia Tucker, Whitney Museum of Art, 1975

"Since the beginning of Tuttle's art-making, his work has literally and philosophically expanded the boundaries of art. On his journey towards a purer, freer art, he has tapped new possibilities that challenge the conventional categories of drawing and sculpture and their relationship to one another." - Susan Harris, from the book Richard Tuttle, 1991

RENAISSANCE UNFRAMED

Renaissance Unframed #1-25 is a series of twenty-five encaustic paintings on muslin, pinned loosely on the wall, and presenting a sculptural dimension in their draping and folding.

Freely applying pigmented encaustic wax onto a silkscreen, Richard Tuttle printed one by one the lengths of weaver's muslin, which absorbed the hot wax into its fibers. Using this method, he created unique works using multiple techniques at Graphicstudio.

The sculpture Renaissance Unframed #26 completes the artist's concept of this series, a complex tapestry of ideas involving the cultural development of western civilization from the Greeks. The small two-part bronze sculpture, cast from a Styrofoam carving, possesses the mysterious presence of an ancient artifact.

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Images of the artwork are jointly owned by the artist and Graphicstudio. Reproduction of any kind including electronic media must be expressly approved by Graphicstudio.