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Article: W.C. Richardson at Baumgartner.(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- May 1, 2001
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The seven canvases that Washington, D.C.-based W.C. Richardson showed at Baumgartner in his first New York solo demonstrated a single compositional strategy: on top of a tangle of wide, hard-edged lines (which curve and loop as they appear to wind around a spherical void), he painted a quiltlike configuration in which a single two-dimensional geometric shape is regularly repeated to form rows and columns spanning the picture plane. This shape, which is consistent within each painting but varies from work to work, is in some cases a compound geometric form, such as a rectangle joined to a semicircle, and in other cases a form that is incomplete, such as a circle missing a ...