Devon - oil on canvas, 2018 |
RC whitlock - paintings and sculpture
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
Saturday, August 18, 2018
Thank you,
Richard Whitlock
Monday, October 20, 2014
The Big Squeak Toy in North Beach
This is a painting I did in 2011 when I was began doing still life's. It was in Aria a wonderful antique store in North Beach. Aria is no longer there, a victim of rents in the new San Francisco. The toy is 8" tall and the painting is 65" x 35". This piece made me feel like a Painter for the first time. I could change what is there into something else.......
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Berkeley Art Center Featured Artist - June 2014
"Richard Whitlock's oil paintings of toys are at once humorous and nostalgic, while empathetic in their almost human gaze - lovingly painted with accomplished realism. His treatment of the subject, set in dreamy atmospheres lacking a background, lends a warmth that leads one to see these objects as entities, turning still lifes into portraits. At the same time, one may find their set gazes unsettling. In an age where the ambiguity between object-hood and personhood are at an all time high, Whitlock reminds us of our time-honored affection for, and distrust of, facsimiles."
Amanda Kilmek
Program Coordinator
"Richard Whitlock's oil paintings of toys are at once humorous and nostalgic, while empathetic in their almost human gaze - lovingly painted with accomplished realism. His treatment of the subject, set in dreamy atmospheres lacking a background, lends a warmth that leads one to see these objects as entities, turning still lifes into portraits. At the same time, one may find their set gazes unsettling. In an age where the ambiguity between object-hood and personhood are at an all time high, Whitlock reminds us of our time-honored affection for, and distrust of, facsimiles."
Amanda Kilmek
Program Coordinator
Big Big Boy |
Oil on canvas 36 x 48" |
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Thank you Amanda Klimek
for your introduction of my work as Featured Artist on the Berkeley Art Center web site. Your insights are helping to direct and inform my painting. One of the reasons I show my work is to get thoughtful feedback like yours. It motivates me to paint and challenges me to develop my ideas.
Here is a link to the Berkeley Art Center web site.http://www.berkeleyartcenter.org/
My show at Ohmega Salvage was in every way a success plus a good party! Now I've got a clean studio and empty canvases ready for paint!
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Moving Right Along -
I've been working on my still lifes trying to get enough paintings for a show. The painting of "Billy & Minnie" sold to a graphic designer in San Francisco who also is a set designer so I know it has a good home. My new series are like sets in a way. In the theater the cast follows the action of the script and the story unfolds. For a story I use images I find in newspapers, magazines and books. My paintings echo the photographs but use toys to replace the people in the pictures. I don't change the dolls and puppets to look human...it's a still life... they are what they are and the script changes from viewer to viewer.
Here is one of my paintings from last year that uses size and your expectations of what should be. It's a 3 feet by 5 feet, oil on canvas of a 5 inch tall squeak toy. The toy makes the tiniest of noises!
I've been working on my still lifes trying to get enough paintings for a show. The painting of "Billy & Minnie" sold to a graphic designer in San Francisco who also is a set designer so I know it has a good home. My new series are like sets in a way. In the theater the cast follows the action of the script and the story unfolds. For a story I use images I find in newspapers, magazines and books. My paintings echo the photographs but use toys to replace the people in the pictures. I don't change the dolls and puppets to look human...it's a still life... they are what they are and the script changes from viewer to viewer.
Here is one of my paintings from last year that uses size and your expectations of what should be. It's a 3 feet by 5 feet, oil on canvas of a 5 inch tall squeak toy. The toy makes the tiniest of noises!
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