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February 16, 2006- March 21, 2006
Richard Sigmund
Christopher Henry Gallery
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The Christopher Henry Gallery is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition of New York-based contemporary artist Richard Sigmund. The exhibition consists of 3 rooms, each featuring one large “road portrait” with support drawings and paintings. More than just painterly, textural recreations of roads, the works are metaphors for life’s journey.
In Sigmund’s paintings the road is lifted out of its environment, out of its trampled temporal objectivity into a protected present which enables it to reach beyond, into a wider sphere of imagination. It has ceased to identify itself with the totality of its original experience. No longer a lowly stretch of road crossed by endless cars, it is now only identified with the more proximate objects in the field of consciousness, with the body. Sigmund’s paintings are exercises in mindfulness – gifts that allow the viewer to pause for a moment, pay attention, and arrive at the importance of the journey over the destination. The overlooked, seemingly infinite road has become personalized and the self and the infinite are unified in time and space. This reconnection with our surroundings and our history reinvigorates the sense of being alive.
Richard Sigmund was born in 1951, in Philadelphia, PA. The artist has been living and working in New York since 1986. Sigmund’s work was featured in a one-man show at P.S. 1 in 2004.
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