Richard Hogan

Richard, who shows with Pie Projects, came to New Mexico as a child when his parents settled in Albuquerque. He was immediately struck by the vast open space of New Mexico, and space would become a major factor in his painting. Art critic William Peterson wrote of Hogan’s work in 2002: ” Hogan’s reductive linear vocabulary implies a return to beginnings, to the inscribing of linear marks as the most archaic of art making activities. Yet, despite his deep interest in Paleolithic and Neolithic art, his inquiry into the basic impulse of drawing is not so much a nostalgia for the “primitive” as it is instead a search for a vocabulary that will read as independent or autonomous, and not as “abstracted.” Following the Modernist tradition of interrogating the formal bases of his art, his achievement has been to make line a medium of painting.”
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