RICHERT SPACE: NOW ON DISPLAY AT RULE GALLERY (DECEMBER 13, 2024 - FEBRUARY 15, 2025)
City of Zomes, 2016
“I imagine the whole of art as a highly accurate mirror of the whole of reality in all of its permutations. Any aspect of reality that hasn’t been mirrored in art is an area of extreme interest and potential fruitful exploration for me.”
- Clark Richert
Clark Richert (1941-2021)
Painter, muralist, sculptor, video-animation artist, and teacher based in Colorado.
Clark Richert (1941-2021) was an American artist known for his brilliant, geometric paintings, and for his role as co-founder of the 1960s artist’s community, Drop City. Over a career that spanned 50-plus years, Richert grappled with “big ideas,” such as the structure of space, the meaning of time, the geometry of viewing, quasi-patterns, and the hidden unity of likenesses. His work anticipated such mathematical and scientific breakthroughs as non-periodic tiling and quasi-crystals. He completed commissions for private and public institutions, such as Hermes-Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, and U.S. West; and his work is represented in such collections as the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum and Denver Art Museum; as well as in many prominent, private collections.