TADASKY
Pushing Boundaries

Opening Reception: Friday, August 24, 2018 from 4:00 to 8:00 PM

On view August 24 through September 29, 2018


This presentation examines Tadasky’s interest in color interaction and how the edge of the pigment border and complexity of the palette impacts the viewing experience. The result is a selection of paintings that range from dense and vibrational to serene and meditative 

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David Richard Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming presentation, Tadasky, Pushing Boundaries. This will be the Gallery’s second solo exhibition for the artist that presents paintings from the late 1960s through 2011. The opening reception will be Friday, August 24, 2018 from 4:00 to 8:00 PM and the exhibition will be on view through Saturday, September 29, 2018.

Tadasky has used the circle as his compositional framework throughout his career for exploring color relationships through concentric rings of pigment. Most of the 1960s compositions were comprised of hard edge bands of color with color interactions that had vibrational qualities and created a sense of motion. In the late 60s, Tadasky began to push the edges of the borders by applying thick pigment and letting it diffuse on one side of an outer ring of color. Later, the edges were pushed further with diffused ethereal rings of pigment and then by incorporating small drops of color around the composition's periphery. This presentation examines the range of painting techniques Tadasky used to study the impact of precise and diffuse edges as well as the thickness and complexity of borders in his E, G, J, M and N series from the late 1960s through 2011. Simultaneously, Tadasky also explored reductive color palettes that resulted in a range of experiences when combined with the diffuse borders. The paintings from the late 1960s and early 1970s maintained strong vibrational and optical qualities by using contrasting value shifts as well as a nearly full spectrum of colors. However, the J series are very serene, calm and meditative with the centers perfectly radiant. That combination makes them more of an exploration of pure color. The M and N series, with a range of blue hues and a heavy dose of black, combined with a frequently white outer ring, evoked mysterious voids and deep space explorations. 

About Tadasky:

Tadasky, born Tadasuke Kuwayama in Nagoya, Japan in 1935 has lived and worked in New York since 1961. He had numerous solo exhibitions at both the Kootz Gallery and legendary Fischbach Gallery in New York. His paintings were included in the seminal Op art exhibitions, The Responsive Eye, 1965, MoMA, New York and Kinetic and Optical Art Today, 1965, Albright-Knox, Buffalo, NY, as well as more than 35 other group exhibitions. Most recently, his paintings have been included in Optic Art: Perceptual Art of the 1960s, 2007, Columbus Museum of Art, curated by Joe Houston. Tadasky’s work is included in the permanent collections of Museum of Modern Art, New York; Albright-Knox, Buffalo, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Museum Art Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Gutai Pinacotheca, Osaka, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagaoka, Japan; Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki, Japan, among others.

About David Richard Gallery:

Since its inception in 2010, David Richard Gallery has produced museum quality exhibitions that feature Post War abstraction in the US. The presentations have addressed specific decades and geographies as well as certain movements and tendencies. While the gallery has long been recognized as an important proponent of post-1960s abstraction—including both the influential pioneers as well as a younger generation of practitioners in this field— in keeping with this spirit of nurture and development the gallery also presents established and very new artists who embrace more gestural and representational approaches to the making of art as well as young emerging artists.

In 2015 David Richard Gallery launched DR Projects to provide a platform for artists of all stripes—international, national, local, emerging and established—to present special solo projects or to participate in unique collaborations or thematic exhibitions. The goal is to offer a fresh look at contemporary art practice from a broad spectrum of artists and presentations. Opening the second location in New York in 2017 exposes the gallery’s artists to new markets, institutions and collectors. 

Associated Artist

• Tadasky

Associated Exhibitions

• TADASKY Pushing Boundaries
  August 23, 2018 - September 29, 2018
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Associated News

• August 24, 2018
  The Eye of the Beholder Tadasky
  Santa Fe New Mexican
  Pasatiempo, 08/24/2018
  Michael Abatemarco
  
  


• August 10, 2018
  Press Release - Tadasky 'Pushing Boundaries'


• August 8, 2012
  Press Release - Tadasky "The Circle Reviewed: 1964 to 2012"