Sharon
Richard Hogan
Created : 1981
Donated :
Medium : Drawing/pastel
Dimensions: 25.5 inx40.5 in
Located: 2nd Floor,North Hallway
Richard Hogan, born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1941, received his Masters of Art from the University of New Mexico in 1967. His work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including Chicago International Art Expo; Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe; Rubiner Gallery, West Michigan; and 369 Gallery Ltd, Edinburgh, Scotland. His work is included in the collections of the New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe; Albuquerque Museum; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; and Andrews & Kurth Collection, Houston, Texas.
Like his paintings, Hogan’s drawings also expose his trail of lines, allowing the viewer an insight into the creation of the work. Erasure and replacement of marks provide clues to the artist’s process. Hogan carefully maps his almost always vertical lines and then selectively reconsiders their placement — rubbing them out and re-marking them with renewed emphasis and often a different color. His palette often combines blushes of rubbed out color with intense strokes as electric neon.
Hogan’s process is additive and reductive in nature. An accumulation of individual elements worked and reworked into a space, it results in a surface that reveals the traces of what came before and what might follow. His linear vocabulary, both in painting and drawing, has given “the line” validation and relevance in the Modernist tradition, as well as revived its reference to primal and archaic art-making tendencies.
It continues to be the goal of the Capitol Art Foundation to build a permanent collection of New Mexican master artworks that reflects New Mexico’s rich and diverse cultural and artistic traditions.
