Sunday, November 15, 2009

Murder in the Court of the Katydid King

Murder in the Court of the Katydid King
ink on paper, 8" x 12"
© Richard A. Kirk

I thought it would be nice to start off the week by showing you a new piece. I just completed Murder in the Court of the Katydid King this weekend. I hope you enjoy it! Click on the image to see a much larger version.

Magistrates

Magistrates Show, Strychnin Gallery, November 13, 2009

Photographs © Strychnin 2009


My "Chimera" with David Hochbaum on the left and Ray Ceasar on the right

Friday 13th in Berlin!


The folks at Strychnin Gallery out did themselves this past Friday with the opening of the Magistrates show. I had two pieces in the show: Chimera and Bellman.To see lots more images check out their blog.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Apocalypse Wow! Opening

MACRO Rome!
Photographs © Strychnin 2009


I'd love to know what she is thinking!


Opening Night!


Awakening, Hellbender and Long Leggers
by Richard A. Kirk

These are some photographs from the opening of Apocalypse Wow! at MACRO in Rome. My work found itself in pretty illustrious company with loads of great artists involved in the show. Coming up next, is a show called Magistrates, opening Friday, which will be at Strychnin's Berlin Gallery. When I get pictures from that event I will post them here.

The gallery also told me that the book Art That Creeps, is now out and shipping. It has been spotted in Paris bookstores! The artists featured in the book are: Jason Shawn Alexander, Wayne Martin Belger, Annie Bertram, Marina Bychkova, Nicoletta Ceccoli, Jan Czerwinski, Leslie Ditto, Melissa Forman, Naoto Hattori, Scott Holloway, Aunia Kahn, Richard Kirk, Ver Mar, Michael Page, Chris Peters, Michael Ryan, John Santerineross, Natalie Shau, David Stoupakis, Daniel Van Nes, Raf Veulemans, Madeline Von Foerster, and Chet Zar. Order now!

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Silverpoint Miniature

Iconoclast 2
2009 © Richard A. Kirk


This is a silverpoint miniature from a series I am doing called "Iconoclasts".

Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Ammonite Violin and Others

The significance of showing you this lovely engraving (which I did not do) is to announce that I will be doing the cover and endpapers for a new collection of short stores by Caitlin R. Kiernan, called Ammonite Violin and Others. It will be published by Subterranean Press.

I have been involved with four other collections penned by Caitlin: Tales of Pain and Wonder, From Weird and Distant Shores, Wrong Things and To Charles Fort, With Love. I'm looking forward to this project which should be out next year.

Richard.

ART 21

Strychnin Gallery's 2009 ART-21 Booth

Photos © Strychnin Gallery 2009



Artwork at ART-21

The images above are from Strychnin Gallery's space in the Cologne ART 21 last week. As you can see the art work was outstanding and the Gallery staff did an incredible job of arranging and hanging the work. If you have ever hung a show, you will appreciate the amount of work these folks did. The first image shows a fisheye view of the space. The second shows one of the toned walls with my piece hanging in the center. The gallery has put up a blog entry with tons more photos here.

Next stop Rome for Apocalypse WOW!

Richard.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Chimera

Chimera
35" x 45", ink on paper
Richard A. Kirk © 2009


This large drawing was created over the past 3 months for ART-21, a huge art fair in Cologne, Germany.

The piece is meant to be experienced as an image, as a work of art however, as an entry point into the work, consider that it is based in part on the following idea

"Śūnyatā signifies that everything one encounters in life is empty of absolute identity, permanence, or an in-dwelling 'self'. This is because everything is inter-related and mutually dependent - never wholly self-sufficient or independent. All things are in a state of constant flux where energy and information are forever flowing throughout the natural world giving rise to and themselves undergoing major transformations with the passage of time."

That is a quote from Wikipedia. In my piece, the macro and micro coexist in one simultaneous experience. There are some clues to scale but these quickly collapse under scrutiny. The Chimera itself is a reinterpretation of the idea of a chimera rather than a strict traditional representation of a Chimera. Chimeras are symbolic of catastrophe and breathe fire. In this case the Chimera breathes a life-giving fire which ignites the fecundity of nature causing an explosion of limitless form. In this, the Chimera is also Proteus which can tell the future but changes form repeatedly to avoid having to do so.

For those of you able to go, the original work will be located at the Strychnin Gallery section of the fair:

"Entering the upstairs foyer of the EXPO XXI building, you will see a brand new, site-specific installation by American artist David Hochbaum. It is called "At the Gates" and features a 3.40 meter high tower of 70 individually built houses, surrounded by 707 "flying" arrows: a spectacular sight to behold!

At the gallery booth B01 in the right-hand exhibition hall, you will be able to see amazing works by the following artists (listed here in alphabetical order):

Ansgar Noeth, Daniel van Nes, David Hochbaum, Jan Czerwinski, Madeline von Foerster, Marina Bychkova, Melissa Forman, Michael Page, Raf Veulemans, Richard Kirk, Sophie Bastien, Ver Mar, and Wee Flowers among others."

Friday, October 02, 2009

Art That Creeps

This is the cover of a new book coming out this fall, which contains some of my art. I am pleased to be in the company of so many other amazing artists.

Thursday, October 01, 2009

Apocalypse Wow!




Here are the posters for the 3 shows I will be in this fall!