Richard Hull: Painting and Drawing by Bruno David Gallery

RICHARD HULL

Painting and Drawing

bruno david gallery

Richard Hull Painting and Drawing

February 29 - April 18, 2020 Bruno David Gallery 7513 Forsyth Boulevard Saint Louis, Missouri 63105, U.S.A. info@brunodavidgallery.com www.brunodavidgallery.com Founder/Director: Bruno L. David This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition “Painting and Drawing” at Bruno David Gallery. Editor: Bruno L. David Catalogue Designer: Lily Hollinden Designer Assistant: Claudia R. David Printed in USA All works courtesy of Richard Hull and Bruno David Gallery Photographs by Richard Hull and Bruno david Gallery Cover image: Untitled No. 6, 2013. crayon on paper, 24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm) ©2013 Richard Hull First Edition Copyright ©2020 Richard Hull and Bruno David Gallery All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without the written permission of Bruno David Gallery

CONTENTS AFTERWORD BY BRUNO L. DAVID CHECKLIST AND IMAGES OF THE EXHIBITION

AFTERWORD BY BRUNO L. DAVID

I am pleased to present an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Richard Hull. This is Hull’s second exhibition with the gallery. Richard Hull’s paintings fill their canvases with large swathes of color; blocks of opaque hues are overlaid with sweeping brushstrokes clustered together that function like non-transient ripples on the water, as rings within a tree, or of grooves on a record player as the latter description evokes the same feelings of growth that Hull’s painterly gestures achieve. The comparison describes the texture of thick paint upon the canvas some of the patterns, and the liveliness of the purposeful irregularities within Hull’s stroke. Although Hull’s paintings are not traditional portraits, each artwork has a distinct feeling of character. Hull applies a layer of melted beeswax to his canvas before painting, making the rich colors found in his work possible. Then, he paints shapes of hot and cold colors against each other, creating a skewed sense of perspective. This confusion of space, in addition to Hull’s use of repeating lines and simplified shapes, keeps the viewer from identifying a clear subject. The general weight of the masses of shapes often resembles a portrait silhouette, suggesting a living presence. Born in Oklahoma City, Hull received his B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute, and his M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Hull was represented by Phyllis Kind Gallery in 1979 (Chicago and New York City) and joined the company of well-known Imagists such as Roger Brown, Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, and Ed Paschke. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally. His paintings may be found in many private and public collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; and the San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas. Support for the creation of significant new works of art has been the core to the mission and program of the Bruno David Gallery since its founding in 2005. I am deeply grateful to Lily Hollinden, who gave much time, talent, and expertise to the production of this catalogue. Invaluable gallery staff support for the exhibition was provided by Taylor Fulton, Sara Ghazi Asadollahi, Lily Hollinden, Eliza Reinhardt, and Zoe Duncan.

CHECKLIST & IMAGES OF THE EXHIBITION

Untitled No. 15 2014 Crayon on paper 24 x 18 inches (61 x 45.7 cm) 10

Ricochet 2018 Oil and wax on linen 24 x 20 inches (61 x 50.8 cm) 12

Untitled No. 5 2016 Crayon on paper 20 x 14 inches (50.8 x 35.6 cm) 14

Absences and Breaks 2020 Oil and wax on linen 24 x 28 inches (61 x 71.1 cm) 16

Delayed Surprise 2016 Oil and wax on linen 42 x 78 inches (106.68 x 198.12 cm) 18

Untitled No. 17 2015 Crayon on paper 24 x 18 inches (61 x 45.7 cm) 20

Ariel (detail) 22

Ariel 2018 Oil and wax on linen 48 x 40 inches (121.9 x 101.6 cm) 23

Ur Dream 2016 Oil and wax on linen 28 x 22 inches (71.1 x 55.9 cm) 24

Radio Sky (detail) 26

Radio Sky 2020 Oil and wax on linen 36 x 30 inches (91.4 x 76.2 cm) 27

Untitled No. 3 2015 Crayon on paper 24 x 18 inches (61 x 45.7 cm) 28

Witness 2016 Oil and wax on linen 48 x 36 inches (121.9 x 91.4 cm) 30

Untitled No. 4 2016 Crayon on paper 20 x 14 inches (50.8 x 35.6 cm) 32

Untitled No. 6 (detail) 34

Untitled No. 6 2013 Crayon on paper 24 x 18 inches (61 x 45.7 cm) 35

Untitled No. 14 2014 Crayon on paper 24 x 18 inches (61 x 45.7 cm) 36

Swift 2017 Oil and wax on linen 24 x 20 inches (61 x 50.8 cm) 38

Untitled No. 12 2015 Crayon on paper 24 x 18 inches (61 x 45.7 cm) 40

Untitled No. 4 2015 Crayon on paper 24 x 18 inches (61 x 45.7 cm) 42

Richard Hull: Painting and Drawing (installation view - detail) 44

RICHARD HULL Born: 1955, Oklahoma City, OK Lives and works in Chicago, IL EDUCATION 1979 1977 1976

MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2020 2018 2015 2013 2012 2011 2010 2008 2006 2003 2001

Bruno David Gallery, “Paintings and Drawings,” St. Louis, MO (catalogue) Western Exhibitions, “Richard Hull”, Chicago, IL Manneken Press, “Richard Hull: Etching and monotypes”, Chicago, IL Western Exhibitions, “Richard Hull”, Chicago, IL Bruno David Gallery, “Recent Paintings,” St. Louis, MO (catalogue) Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL Charlotte & Phillip Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem NC “Partial Vision”, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago IL “37 Day Drawing” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago IL Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago IL Saginaw Valley State University, Saginaw Valley, MI Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL Rule Gallery, Denver, CO Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL Rule Gallery, Denver, CO 51

2001 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1987 1986 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1979

Collaboration with Ken Vandermark, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago IL Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL U.U., Brooklyn, NY Bradley University, Peoria, IL Gallery A, Inc., Chicago, IL University Club, Chicago, IL Gallery A, Inc., Chicago, IL Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL Butters Gallery, Portland, OR Rule Modern, Denver, CO Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA PrintWorks Gallery, Chicago, IL Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 “OVERVIEW_2020,” Bruno David Gallery, Saint Louis, MO 2018 “Richard Hull: Etching and Monotypes,” Manneken Press, Chicago, IL “New Work,” Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL 2017 “Recent Prints & Projects,” Manneken Press, Bloomington, IL “A Dazzling Decade,” Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS “Manneken Press: Recent Prints & Projects,” Wakeley Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Blomington, IL 2016 “Four Large Drawings,” Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL “The 7th Annual Art of Painting in the 21st Century,” John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA “The Return of the Exquisite Corpse,” Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL 2013 “BLUE-WHITE-RED,” Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO 2012 “Afterimage,” Depaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL “Sea Change,” Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL “Someone Else’s Dream,” curated by John Mckinnon, The Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL “Push Pull,” The Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL 2011 “Made in Chicago: The Koffler Collection,” The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC “After the Readymade,” Smart Museum, Chicago, IL “Chicago School: Imagism in Context,” Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI “The Arts Club of Chicago Members Show,” The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2010 “Spaces Within,” Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL “Touch and Go,” Sullivan Galleries, SAIC, Chicago, IL “Book Covers,” Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL 2009 “Modern and Contemporary Works On Paper,” the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL “Submerged Artists,” The Dark Fair, Cologne, Germany 2008 “The Dark Fair,” the Swiss Institute, New York City, NY “2008 Preview,” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL “Passionate Perspective,” Rockford Museum of Art, Rockford, IL 2007 “Wish you were here,” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL “The ChalkBoard Chronicles,” New York City, NY “The Exquisite Snake,” Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL “The Arts Club of Chicago Members Show,” The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL 53

2006 “Abstract Imagism,” Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL 2005 “The Pintura Series,” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL “Bookmarks, 25th Anniversary Show,” Printworks, Chicago, IL “Members Exhibition,” The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2004 “Water World,” South Bend Regional Museum Of Art, South Bend, IN “Departures,” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL “The Poetry Center Broadside Exhibit,” Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL “For The Birds,” the Clarke House Museum, Chicago, IL 2003 “Modern Shadows,” The Painting Center, New York, NY 2002 “Shifting,” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL “Plotting,” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL Sherry Leedy Gallery, Kansas City, MO 2001 “Members Exhibition,” Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL “Amused,” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL “The Kitchen Sink,” Tom McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL 2000 “Sextablos,” Hyde Park Art Center, Hyde Park, IL Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX “Self-Portraits,” Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL 1998 Gallery A, Inc., Chicago, IL “Collaboration ‘98,” PrintWorks, Chicago, IL “Members Exhibition,” Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL “Drawing Invitational,” Parkland College Art Gallery, Champaign, IL 1997 “Testwalls: The Chalkboard Chronicles,” T’Zart Co., New York, NY “Landfall Press: Twenty-five years of Printmaking in Chicago 1935-1995,” Maryana Liegh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL “Mental Visual Manual,” Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, WI “Dwelling,” Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL 1996-7 “Art in Chicago,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL “Art in the Family,” Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI 1995 “Landfall Press 25 Year Anniversary,” Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL “Pulp Fiction,” Gallery A, Chicago, IL “Surface,” Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert, MI “Phyllis Kind Gallery Revisited,” The Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI 54

1995 “Small,” Butters Gallery, Portland, OR 1994 “Small Details: Intimate Images through Artists’ Eyes,” Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL “Annual Exhibition of Artist Members,” The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1993 “Divided Spaces: Richard Hull, Miyoko Ito, David Richards,” Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL “…A Loose Form of Narrative….”, Gallery A, Chicago, IL “10th Anniversary of Artists in Residence,” The University of Tennessee, Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, Knoxville, TN “Annual Exhibition of Artist Members,” The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL “My Father’s House Has Many Mansions,” Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY “Ars Nova Judges Show,” Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, IL 1992 “Annual Exhibition of Artist Members,” The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL “Images from the 1980’s,” Samual P. Harnes Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL 1991 “Summer Group Show,” World Tattoo Gallery, Chicago, IL “Art on Paper,” Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC “Portraits of a Kind,” Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL 1990 “79th Annual Exhibition/Small Bite out of the Big Apple,” Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Women’s College, Lynchburg, VA “Regarding Art: Artworks About Art,” Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI “70th Annual Artist Members Exhibition,” The Arts Club Chicago, Chicago, IL “Chicago Painters in Print: Brown, Paschke, Hull, Lostutter, Pasin-Sloan, Bamson, Wirsum,” Landfall Press, Chicago, IL 1989 “American Art Since World War II: Recent Acquisitions in the Department of Prints and Drawings,” The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL “Recent Acquisitions/1988,” Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI 1988 “Chicago Now!,” The South Bend Art Center, South Bend, IN 1987 “Richard Hull/ Michael Nakoneczny,” The Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA “Chicago Style: Five Leading Artists,” Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO 1986-7 “The Contemporary Arts Center Biennial,” The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, and Travelling Exhibition; The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH; Herron Gallery of Art, Indianapolis, IN; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI 1986 “Showehegan Alumni Exhibition,” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY 1985 “The Eighty-first Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,” The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1984 “Ten Years of Collecting at the MCA,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 55

1984 “The Eightieth Exhibition by Artist of Chicago and Vicinity,” The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL “Chicago Cross Section,” Trisolini Gallery, Ohio University at Athens, Athens, OH “Ten Years of Collecting at the MCA,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL “The Eightiet Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,” The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL “Chicago Cross Section,” Trisolini Gallery, Ohio University at Athens, Athens, OH “Bright Lights, Big City,” Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY (Curated by John Yau) “Sculpture and Painting,” Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI “Midwest Invitational,” Clark Arts Center, Rockford College, Rockford, IL “Midwest Invitational,” Clark Arts Center, Rockford College, Rockford, IL “Chicago: Emerging Visions,” The Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Oshkosh, WI 1983-84 “Eleven Chicago Artists,” Educational Outreach Program, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; and traveling to Chicago area schools 1983 “Chicago Scene,” Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA “Habitats,” Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL; and traveling to Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College, WI “The Painterly Print,” Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, KS 1982-83 “Dialect=Dialect: A Group Show of Artists with Complex” “Individual Vocabularies,” Phyllis Kind Galleries, New York, NY and Chicago, IL 1982 “Painting and Sculpture Today,” Indianapolis, IN Selections from the Denis Adrian Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 1981-83 “Prints and Multiples, Seventy-ninth Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,” The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL and traveling to The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Portland Art Museum, OR 1981 “Seventy-ninh Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,” The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (william H. Bartels Prize) Chicago/Chicago, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH 1980 “New Visions,” The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield CT 1980 “Seventy-ninth Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity,” The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (William H. Bartels Prize) Chicago / Chicago, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH 1978 “4/4 Show,” West Hubbard Gallery, Chicago, IL 1975-77 “Thirty Miles of Art,” Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO 1975 “First Time Out Together,” Cromwell Gallery, Kansas City, MO

SPECIAL PROJECTS 2012 Ken Vandermark and Richard Hull, “ Re:Compose” Performance, Depaul Art Museum, Chicago IL 2011 BOMB Magazine. “Jim Nutt & Gladys Nilsson” (interview). Bomb 114/Winter 2011 2007 Curator, ”STRUCK” New Paintings by New Painters, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago IL Visuals, T.S. Elliots “The Wasteland,” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Cover, “The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist” 2006-05 Video Visuals, “The Pintura Series,” Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter” a Collaboration with Ken Vandermark-music 2005 Visuals, “the Beckett Project” a collaboration with Dan Grzeca, Japp Blonk ,Lotta, and Ken Vandermark, The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL 2001 Performance, “Shadow Music” a collaboration with Ken Vandermark, The Arts club of Chicago, Chicago IL

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS American Medical Association, Chicago, IL The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Arthur Anderson Co., Chicago, IL Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY Chemical Bank, New York, NY The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI First National Bank, Chicago, IL Samuel P. Harnes Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL Madison Art Center, WI Metropolitan Pier & Exposition Authority, McCormick Center South Hall, Chicago, IL Milwaukee Art Center, WI Morningstar Inc., Chicago, IL Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Nelson-Atkins Museum Kansas City, MO Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL Northwestern University, Chicago, IL Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY Smart Museum, Chicago, IL San Antonio Museum of Art, TX The Smithsonian Washington D.C. Weatherspoon Art Collection, Greensboro, NC

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ARTISTS REPRESENTED Sara Ghazi Asadollahi Laura Beard Heather Bennett Lisa K. Blatt Michael Byron Bunny Burson Judy Child Carmon Colangelo Alex Couwenberg Terry James Conrad Jill Downen Damon Freed

Yvette Drury Dubinsky Douglass Freed Richard Hull Kelley Johnson Chris Kahler Leslie Laskey Justin Henry Miller James Austin Murray Ralph Nagel Yvonne Osei Patricia Olynyk Gary Passanise

Charles P. Reay Daniel Raedeke Tom Reed Frank Schwaiger Charles Schwall Christina Shmigel Thomas Sleet Buzz Spector Cindy Tower Mark Travers Monika Wulfers