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Richmond Burton

Richmond Burton (Born 1960) is active/lives in New York.  Richmond Burton is known for Geometric abstraction, collage.

The following is from The Broad Art Foundation

Richmond Burton

Born: 1960, Talladega, Alabama
B.A. 1982, Bachelor of Architecture 1984, Rice University, Houston, Texas
Lives and works in East Hampton, New York

Richmond Burton is very much invested in the tradition of modernist painting, citing influences on his work as diverse as Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935), and Frank Stella. With a background and training in architecture, many of Burton's paintings stress visual order. Hard-edged geometrical forms dominated his early canvases, but later a more organic patterning, such as that seen in "Eyes in the Heat", emerged. Devoted to his craft with what has been called a "monastic" fervor, the freedom and control afforded by painting are of great importance to Burton, for as he says "painting is the only artistic activity without compromise."

The space depicted in "Eyes in the Heat" and other Burton paintings made at the same time refers to the work of his pred   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1761 characters.]  Artist bio

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