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RICHARD LIVINGSTON |
Richard Livingston makes paintings of pleasure and tragedy using as
source material images from archives and the media, which are selected for
their emotional resonance. All references to a particular time or place are erased
to isolate and accentuate the posture, gesture or fragment. By blurring an
anguished or sensual moment and erasing its specificity, another dimension
such as colour or tenderness may be revealed, presenting an oscillation
between suffering and pleasure, coexistence and separation, remembering and
forgetting. Many of the current works are exploring human emotions, perceived
through images of animals - in the laboratory, the home or wildlife films. We use
animal metaphors to picture desire, affection, cruelty and the movement
between visceral animal and rational human.
Lives and works in London.
Education
BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College . 1995-1998
Exhibitions
Kamikaze Blossom, Fieldgate Gallery, London 2006
Exhaustion, Sartorial Contemporary Art, London 2006
Black Bile, Three Colts Gallery, London 2005
BoBo's, London 1999
Nunnery Gallery, London 2003
Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles 2003
Kyubidou Gallery, Tokyo 2003
7/7 Gallery, London 2002
Raid Projects, Los Angeles 2002
Nunnery Gallery, London 2002
Art First Gallery, London 2001
Nunnery Gallery, London 1999
FLAG Gallery , Berlin 1998
Proud Gallery, London 1998
source material images from archives and the media, which are selected for
their emotional resonance. All references to a particular time or place are erased
to isolate and accentuate the posture, gesture or fragment. By blurring an
anguished or sensual moment and erasing its specificity, another dimension
such as colour or tenderness may be revealed, presenting an oscillation
between suffering and pleasure, coexistence and separation, remembering and
forgetting. Many of the current works are exploring human emotions, perceived
through images of animals - in the laboratory, the home or wildlife films. We use
animal metaphors to picture desire, affection, cruelty and the movement
between visceral animal and rational human.
Lives and works in London.
Education
BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College . 1995-1998
Exhibitions
Kamikaze Blossom, Fieldgate Gallery, London 2006
Exhaustion, Sartorial Contemporary Art, London 2006
Black Bile, Three Colts Gallery, London 2005
BoBo's, London 1999
Nunnery Gallery, London 2003
Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles 2003
Kyubidou Gallery, Tokyo 2003
7/7 Gallery, London 2002
Raid Projects, Los Angeles 2002
Nunnery Gallery, London 2002
Art First Gallery, London 2001
Nunnery Gallery, London 1999
FLAG Gallery , Berlin 1998
Proud Gallery, London 1998
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