RICHARD SEDIVY Good News Road October 25 – November 29, 2014 Lora Schlesinger Gallery is pleased to announce Good News Road, a new series of work by Richard Sedivy. Sedivy’s current body of work is a finely crafted combination of paint, construction and assemblage on wood panels. The imagery depicts architectural structures that investigate our relationship to “home” and the values and beliefs that are materialized through them. The exhibition opens Saturday October 25, 2014 and runs through November 29, 2014. Richard Sedivy was born and raised in Chicago, a city with a distinctive architectural style. His experience travelling from Chicago, to Tennesse and California exposed him to the myriad of rural buildings and dwellings along the way. He developed a connection to houses, shacks, work sheds and simple dwellings. Each structure represented work ethic, and the remains of a heartland of work. Sedivy’s homes, are containers of human history. They become metaphors for lives lived, work, hope, dreams dreamt and hardships endured. The carefully crafted structures are constructed with fragments of wood laboriously painted to have character, a sense of history, solidity, permanence and impermanence. The paintings are an homage to monuments of modest intention built to last, but the monuments inevitably fade and change with time. Sedivy’s paintings capture and immortalize these structures in an ever changing world. Richard Sedivy resides in Southern California. He received his M.F.A. from Bradley University, Illinois. Sedivy credits his real education in traditional painting to working as a scenic painter for th th CBS. His visual influences range from 17 -Century Flemish art to 20 –Century Bauhaus formalism. This is his sixth solo exhibition with the gallery.
BLUE, 2014 Acrylic, mixed media construction on wood panel 24-3/4 x 34-5/8�
Untitled (Black), 2012-14 Acrylic, mixed media construction on wood panel 25-3/4 X 35�
RED, 2014 Acrylic, mixed media construction on wood panel 34-3/4 x 24-7/8�
WORK, 2012 Acrylic, mixed media construction on wood panel 24-3/8 x 33-1/2�
YELLOW, 2014 Acrylic, mixed media construction on wood panel 24-7/8 X 34-5/8�
Reliquary, 2013-14 Acrylic, mixed media construction on wood panel 25-1/8 x 34-1/2�
WISDOM, 2014 Acrylic, mixed media construction on wood panel 25-3/4 x 35�
PRESCIENCE 2014 Acrylic, mixed media construction on wood panel 34-5/8 X 24�
VIRTUE, 2014 Acrylic, mixed media construction on wood panel 24-3/4 X 34-1/2�
PROSPECT, 2013 acrylic, mixed media construction on wood panel 25 x 34-1/2"
Dark Star, 2010 - 13 acrylic, mixed media construction on wood panel 21-7/16 x 29-5/8"
Message to Barbara, 2013 acrylic, mixed media construction on wood panel 22-1/16 x 31-3/4"
Homestead for Amy, 2013-14 acrylic, mixed media construction on wood panel 25 x 34-5/8"
Untitled (Study), 2012 acrylic, mixed media construction on wood panel 26 x 34-5/8"
RICHARD SEDIVY BORN 1948
Chicago, IL
EDUCATION 1972 1970
M.F.A., Bradley University, Peoria, IL B.F.A., Bradley University, Peoria, IL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 2006 2004 2000 1998 1995 1988 1985 1978
Good News Road, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Ed's House, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA No Epiphany Here, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA Nautical bob, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA Simple Divisions, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA Recent Paintings, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA J. Rosenthal Fine Arts, Chicago, IL Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Irit Krygier Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Chinese Junk, presented by C.A.R.P., Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2012
Summer Group Show, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Small Paintings Group Show, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica , CA 2008 A View From Here: A Group Exhibition of Contemporary Landscapes, The Judson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2000 Abstraction, Santa Monica Community College, Santa Monica, CA 1999 Person/Place/Thing, Crossroads School, Sam Francis Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1995 Landscape: The Continuum, Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Transitory Constructs-A Search for Permanence Through (L.A.) Architecture, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 1994 Artists and Architecture, Artspace Gallery, Woodland Hills, CA 1993 Visual Voice/Personal Symbols, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA 1991 Biota Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS continued 1990
The Pleasure and the Terror: An Exhibition of Landscape, Irvine Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine
1988 1986 1984 1983 1982 1977
Out of Abstraction, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY Insistent Landscapes, Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA Masks, Art Space, Los Angeles, CA Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (L.A.C.E.), Los Angeles, CA Variations II, Seven Los Angeles Painters, Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA I.C.E., sponsored by Independent Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA Art 4 Artists, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
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