Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Artist Essay #1 Matthew Richie








Matthew Richie is almost indescribable, his work, from what I got off the PBS’s Art 21 website http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/ritchie/index.html, tries to embody the universe, from all forms of art including, painting, drawing, digital, sculpture, and metal works. I’m not too sure what to say about Richie’s art, it could be that I don’t comprehend it, which is most likely the case, but even in my ignorant state there is something on a semi-barbaric level that is utterly, intoxicating about his art work. The free form of simple lines draws me and embraces me with a wanting for discovery, and shows me a completely elaborate world with its own direction, all while following a simple black line on a white wall. I don’t understand what he is trying to convey through his art, all I see from his art is off the explicit surface of his pieces. The lines, colors, the simplicity, the two dimensions, the third dimensions, the wanting to understand his pieces, too know why that particular line cross over the other, does it tell a story, a narrative, is it of fiction or of history. I may not comprehend what Richie is telling me, but I know one thing… I like it.

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