NEW YORK, NY (PNAN) – Opening Wednesday, October 5, 2022 at Findlay Galleries, Outrageous Ingenuity offers a broad survey of the works by Robert Richenburg (1917-2006) from the 1940s to the 1980s, presenting a critical understanding of his approach to painting.
This is artist’s first solo exhibition since 2013 and throughout the decades he employed a variety of techniques that exemplified his breadth of skill, but also his commitment to the avant-garde and to pushing the boundaries of what constitutes art in which Richenburg said the reason he makes art is to “make something that you didn’t know about before, and when it’s done it becomes new to other people.”
In the late 1940s Richenburg’s work began to be exhibited in museums and galleries across New York and Provincetown, including the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (now the Guggenheim Museum). Today his work is found in countless museums, including the Museum of Moderna Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Norton Simon Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and the Instiuto Valenciano de Arte Moderno in Spain.
“I am very excited to be working with Findlay Galleries on this exceptional exhibition of my late husband’s works,” said Marggy Richenburg. “I am thrilled by the diverse body of works included, especially the inclusion of Broken Continuity (1962), that exemplify his vast and significant contributions to twentieth century art.”
A charter member of the influential Artists’ Club in lower Manhattan and a participant in the legendary 9th Street Art Exhibition (1951), artist Richenburg was a quintessential figure of the New York School and Abstract Expressionist movement who developed under the tutelage of Hans Hofmann and was a contemporary of Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock.
Findlay Chairman and CEO James Borynack says, “We are honored to represent and collaborate with the Richenburg Estate. This exhibition will bring further attention to Robert Richenburg’s work and bring forth recognition of his enduring creativity and contributions to Abstract Expressionism.”
For more information, email Frederick Clark at fred@findlayart.com or call 212.421.5390. Findlay Galleries is located at 32 East 57th Street, 2nd Floor in the Big Apple.
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