CAPSULE VIEW OF RECENT WORK
If you see something that piques your interest, click on
Gallery and go to Figures, Faces and Creatures.
If you see something that piques your interest, click on
Gallery and go to Figures, Faces and Creatures.
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Left: Young Painter, acrylic on canvas, 2020, 24x22
Contact the artist for information on a specific art work -- price, size, medium, year executed, shipping methods and costs and any other questions. See below for an overview of this site and general information.
Richard Huntington
57 Irving Place, Buffalo, NY 14201
Email: [email protected] Cell phone: 716-507-2912
Web site: richardhuntington.com
See more work on 1stdibs.com and artsy.net
General information: This site presents art that I've done from 1959 (!) to the present. It is wide-ranging in terms of style because early on I worked mostly abstractly and only later began to incorporate recognizable things. The figures and other representational forms that are interwoven among the abstract elements make many of the pieces a kind of hybrid. I've organized the site by subject and style in order to quickly direct you to work that falls within your interests.
Go to the list in Gallery to access the entire range of the work.
You can enlarge the image by clicking on it. Each category displays a range of prices for the works on that page.
With the exception of those works already in a collection, any individual piece can be purchased and framed at cost
Go to the list in Gallery to access the entire range of the work.
You can enlarge the image by clicking on it. Each category displays a range of prices for the works on that page.
With the exception of those works already in a collection, any individual piece can be purchased and framed at cost
Above: Bust of Ricardo, a satirical self-portrait
on commemorative sculpture, 2020, 23.5x17.5,
on commemorative sculpture, 2020, 23.5x17.5,
The artist in 1974 during the hippie heyday standing before a destroyed abstraction I wish I hadn't destroyed. Below: The artist as he appears in 2021 in a photograph taken by his wife, Wendy Huntington, an excellent artist herself, converted to black and white in what I hope was not to register that I am a colorless figure these days. |
A preview from the Abstractions category: Pinwheel, acrylic on canvas, 1974, 5x5.5 Seymour Drumlevitch, my painting professor in my graduate years, one day sat me down and said, "You have to decide. Is it to be figures or abstractions." I choose abstraction, probably because Drumlevitch was a highly regarded abstract painter. I felt like I might be betraying him by continuing doing my take-offs of old master paintings. So abstraction it was. That was 1965. I kept at it until around 1983, made some good art, along the way, I think.
But at that point the figure suddenly made sense again. I realized that I could create a convincing conjunction of subject-matter and the formal arrangement within the composition by setting the figure in some kind of free-wheeling abstract environment made up of fragments, floating or anchored shapes and painterly passages. That's the path I continue on today. And yet the pull of abstraction is still there. I will occasionally take out a half-finished abstract painting from yesteryear (I keep everything) and work on it just as it was 1965 again |
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Right: Self portrait, a more or less accurate rendition of my face as it appeared in the 1970's. Pencil on paper, 30x22. The drawing in the background (now lost) depicts a floating bicycle handlebars, a favorite theme at the time because of a series of mysterious coincidences involving my sense of balance and a tree. |