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RICHARD CARLYON | Selected Work
Introduction
Artist, teacher, and friend Richard Carlyon died
Friday, January 20, 2006, after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was
75.
Richard Carlyon appeared in Blackbird’s first
issue, and we present his work again through a visit
with his paintings, drawings and videos as they appeared in a selective
retrospective of his work at Richmond’s Reynolds Gallery, November 4 – December 23, 2005. This exhibition celebrated Richard’s selection as the recipient of Virginia Commonwealth University’s President’s
Medal, given in recognition of outstanding service to the VCU community
as teacher and artist.
We wish that we could better convey the texture, scale, and subtle grace of these paintings, drawings, and moving images, but we hope that you will leave here with some sense of the remarkable sensibility that provides the anima for work that is—in turns—meditative, witty, intimate, and provocative. Richard Carlyon’s art affords its own echoes of a shimmering world, one where the tactile seduction of a surface provides a portal to the ongoing conversation that art grants us all. 
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red again, 1989
still capture from video |
Richard Carylon’s Flight Song  and an August 2002 interview  appear in Blackbird, v1n1.
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