Skip to main contentBiographyAmerican draughtsman, sculptor, and installation artist. He was a student at Trinity College, Hartford, CT (1959–63), and at the Cooper Union, New York (1963–4), and he worked for a time as assistant to Agnes Martin, who became a lifelong friend. His oeuvre is varied, crossing style and media lines and ranging from a cutting of string on the wall to works on paper to multimedia installations. Most works measure under 250 mm but have a large impact, while larger works and installations also exhibit the same dynamic-yet-quiet sensibility. Ultimately, his work defies categorization, except as a lifelong exploration of art’s possibilities. In the 1990s and 2000s he worked in all media, separately and together, for example, painting cutout shapes with applied coloured papers for the Waferboard series (1996); creating Replace the Abstract Picture Plane (1996–9) with 40 painted plywood panels designed so viewers would see the flat picture plane in new ways; and for Walking on Air (2009), making large canvas panels comprising two horizontal strips in which the obvious details of their production create works that are both objects and paintings. Known for his range as well as the humour and simplicity at the heart of his works, he exhibited widely, and his works are found in collections worldwide. Four decades of his work was the subject of a 2005 retrospective exhibition organized in San Francisco, and new and original works continued to be shown in subsequent exhibitions.
(SOURCE: Margaret Barlow. "Tuttle, Richard." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 27 Oct. 2016.. )
Richard Tuttle
American, born 1941
(SOURCE: Margaret Barlow. "Tuttle, Richard." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 27 Oct. 2016.
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