ArtBabble: Richard Tuttle

Richard Tuttle: Pollock & Tiffany

Art21 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:37:43 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #076: Artist Richard Tuttle pays homage to American art giants Jackson Pollock and Louis Comfort Tiffany, placing his work in an aesthetic tradition that spans abstraction and craft, expressionism and pragmatism. Interviewed outside his home New Mexico, Tuttle's dialogue on being the "brush of society" versus "using society as your paintbrush" is paired with a retrospective of his works installed at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Richard Tuttle: Reality & Illusion

Art21 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:04:48 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #056: Artist Richard Tuttle installs the work "Ten Kinds of Memory and Memory Itself" (1973) at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Richard Tuttle commonly refers to his art as drawing rather than sculpture, emphasizing the diminutive scale and idea-based nature of his work. He subverts the conventions of modernist sculptural practice by creating small, eccentrically playful objects in decidedly humble materials. Influences on his work include calligraphy, architecture, and poetry.

Richard Tuttle: Art & Life

Art21 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:37:14 +0000

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Exclusive Episode #063: Richard Tuttle discusses his philosophical relationship to art and life in his New Mexico studio.