pentimenti gallery

Exhibited: A - G: Richard Bottwin

The planes of these birch plywood sculptures, folding inward, parallel to each other, or lying flat against the wall, change alignments and seem to move as one walks around them. The surfaces, laminated with exotic wood veneers or painted with rich, deep acrylic colors, reveal surprising shapes and patterns with shifts in the viewer’s perspective. A sense of disorientation, implied weightlessness and the element of surprise, enliven the reductive forms and subvert the modernist vocabulary of the apparently simple constructions.

Richard Bottwin is a recipient of several grants: Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Grants, New York State CAPS Grant. He exhibited extensively in the United States: P.S.1 (MoMA), Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY and more.

15 x 15 x 4.5 inchesWood, acrylic paint, textured acrylic sheet2009
   
19 x 22 x 5 inchesWood, acrylic paint, textured acrylic sheet2009
   
17 x 19 x 5 inchesWood, acrylic paint, textured acrylic sheet2009
     
  
16 x 13.5 x 13 inchesAcrylic color, zebrawood veneer on birch plywood2008Top / bottom: side of sculpture
   
15.5 x 7.75 x 10 inchesAcrylic color, olive ash burl veneer on birch plywood2007Left / right: side of sculpture
   
19.5 x 8 x 8.5 inchesAcrylic color, zebrawood veneer on birch plywood2008Left / right: side of sculpture
     
  
12 x 13 x 14 inchesAcrylic color, olive ash burl veneer on birch plywood2008Top / bottom: side of sculpture
   
18 x 8 x 14 inchesAcrylic color, macassar ebony veneer on birch plywood2008Left / right: side of sculpture
   
16.5 x 7 x 12 inchesAcrylic color, olive ash burl veneer on birch plywood2007Left / right: side of sculpture
     
  
15.5 x 7.5 x 9 inchesAcrylic color, macassar ebony veneer on birch plywood2007Left / right: side of sculpture
   
9.5 x 6.5 x 6.5 inchesAcrylic paint, wood
   
14 x 8.5 x 9 inchesAcrylic paint, wood
     
  
32 x 8 x 8 inchesOlive ash burl on birch plywood, acrylic paint
   
11 x 8.5 x 8.5 inchesAcrylic paint, wood
   
10 x 8.5 x 8 inchesAcrylic paint, wood