Richard Burton Untitled 2004

Richard Burton Untitled 2004 Richmond Burton is an abstract painter and printmaker. His colorful and harmonious paintings and graphic work are composites of his vocabulary of organic shapes that flow together in undulating patterns resulting in unique multi-colored abstractions. With a background in architecture, many of Burton’s paintings stress visual order. Hard-edged geometrical forms dominated his early canvases, but later a more organic patterning emerged. Long known as a fixture in the New York School of abstract painting, Richmond first entered the art world working as an architect in the offices of I. M. Pei where, among other projects, he was instrumental in the production of the now legendary pyramids outside the Louvre in Paris. Richmond’s painting career has had many highlights. Shown early by Mario Diacono and Postmasters Gallery, he became the first one-person exhibition at the Matthew Marks Gallery and for years showed prominently at legendary Cheim and Read Gallery. Hi