Richard Galpin Overview

Richard Galpin’s complex art works are derived from the artist's own photographs of chaotic cityscapes. Using only a scalpel Galpin intricately scores and peels away the emulsion from the surface of the photograph to produce a radical revision of the urban... [more]

Richard Galpin’s complex art works are derived from the artist's own photographs of chaotic cityscapes. Using only a scalpel Galpin intricately scores and peels away the emulsion from the surface of the photograph to produce a radical revision of the urban form. The artist allows himself no collaging, or additions of any kind - each delicate work is a unique piece made entirely by the erasure of photographic information. The works enact a reimagining of the city, but their futuristic vision is predicated on the city as it is now, with the intricate details bearing traces of contemporary urban experience. Playing between abstraction and representation, the works draw their visual language from a variety of early 20th century movements such as Constructivism, and Vorticism... Since graduating from the Goldsmiths MA in 2001, Richard Galpin has had solo exhibitions at Franklin Art Works (Minneapolis), Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporanea (Rome), Galeria Leme (Sao Paulo), Roebling Hall (New York), and Hales Gallery (London). Group exhibitions include Under Erasure at Temple Bar Gallery (Dublin), When it's a Photograph at The Bolsky Gallery (Los Angeles), Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions at the British Museum (London), The Photograph in Question, Von Lintel Gallery (New York), Attack:Attraction, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery (San Francisco), and Looking With/Out at the Courtauld Institute of Art (London). Collections include the British Government Art Collection, the British Museum and Deutsche Bank. [show less]