Troy Richards: The Perfect View
@ Thomas Robertello Gallery
939 West Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60607
Opening Friday, February 12th, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, April 3rd
An exhibition of new work by Troy Richards examining the disparity of controlled domesticity vs. natural and manmade disasters.
Central to the exhibition are laser cut vinyl works (a la Colorforms) on plexiglass depicting a plane crash viewed from multiple perspectives inside and outside a modernist house. Coolly appointed with posh accoutrements, furniture, floral arrangements, and artwork by Bridget Riley and Christopher Wool, the uninhabited domestic scenes are cheerily at odds with the recent intrusion of a large airplane that has fallen from the sky. The odd pairing of extreme control and extreme loss of control rendered throughout in stark black and white freeze-frames various embodiments of polarity.
In a second body of work, Richards has created an extension of op art to include trompe l’oeil works riffing on Bridget Riley paintings and Robert Lazzarini sculpture. The two-dimensional laser cut vinyl “paintings” highlight the artist’s mastery of his laborious process confounding the viewer’s sense of spatial perception and logic.
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