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June Issue 2006
Simply Irresistible Gallery in Tryon, NC, Features Works by John D. Richards
Simply
Irresistible Gallery in Tryon, NC, will open an exhilarating exhibition
of Trash Art by John D. Richards of Burnsville, NC on June
2. The show will run through June 30, 2006.
Richards, who is featured in the May edition of Southern Living in the Carolina Living section, was born in 1936 in Fond Du Lac, WI. His mother was an artist and his father a writer. He received a BA in English from Union College in Schenectady, NY, and taught English, Spanish and Art. In 1963 he quit his teaching job and began his freelance career. He and his wife Claudia, also an artist, now own the Yummy Mud Puddle studio in Burnsville.
Richards constructs 7" robot people out of such things as capacitors, resistors, spark plugs and bottle caps. Their arms are poseable and each of his "Elarpees" (LRPs, Little Robot People) come with a contemporary Haiku. Some are not little at all some are life sized! Some are lit from within. Some have movable parts or emit incongruous sounds. His "Cosmic WooWoo Angel" series utilizes license plates for wings, altered Barbie doll faces, plastic easter eggs for breasts and each one comes with an explanatory booklet.
Richards also makes jewelry from colorful cut tin cans adorned with copper wire and beads, as well as lamps out of glazed tissue paper in the shapes of animals. "Some may call it trash, I call it creative reuse of familiar materials", says Simply Irresistible Gallery owner Kathleen Carson.
Simply Irresistible Gallery features only the work of artists from the Carolinas.
For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 828/859-8316 or at (www.SimplyIrresistibleGallery.com).
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