Richard Kallweit Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1943 -

BORN NYC 1943
first summer job sanding picture frames for neighbor who
studied with Maurice Prendergast
BFA UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
ONE YEAR GRADUATE WORK UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
visiting artists Newton and Helen Harrison , John Chamberlain
MFA UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
George Woodman and Genie Weiffenbach steered me thru
YALE NORFOLK SUMMER SCHOOL OF ART
studied photography with Walter Rosenblum shook hands with Minor White

CO-FOUNDER DROPCITY TRINIDAD COLORADO
artist community with Gene Bernofsky Joanne Bernofsky and Clark Richert
CO EDITOR OF CRISS CROSS ART COMMUNICATIONS
with Charles Dijulio, Fred Worden and Clark Richert
13 issues were published devoted to group interaction,scientific
and mathematical investigations and art

Art critic and reviewer for New Art Examiner of Chicago
Lectured at Parsons School of Design NY
Lectured at Smith College Massachusetts
Lecture University of Massachusetts
University of Colorado Colorado Springs ,Co
Artists Talk on Art Landmark Gallery NYC
CHAC Lecture Series Denver Colorado
Fordham University
PS1 Pepsi Dome Queens NYC
SELECTED EHIBITIONS
EAT Exhibition Brooklyn Museum NYC
The Golden Spiral Larson Gallery Yakima Valley Community College
Hippie Modernism:The Struggle for Utopia Walker Art Center
MCA Denver Colorado West of Center
Bridges Art/Math Enschede Netherlands

MY ARTWORKS ARE BASED ON INVESTIGATIONS INTO MATHEMATICAL FORM CONCERNING THE ARRANGEMENT OF UNITS IN SPACE. CUBIC PACKING, FRACTALS, TESSELATIONS,SYMMETRY AND GROWTH PATTERNS ARE SOME OF THE IDEAS I HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH.

THESE WORKS WERE DEVELOPED OVER LONG PERIODS OF TIME USING THESE MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS AND OTHERS OF MY OWN DEVICE. THE MAIN STRUGGLE IS TO GET THEM TO "WORK" IN THE OLD FASHIONED SENSE OF BEAUTY, HARMONY AND FINISH (OR LACK OF).

THE PAINTINGS AND STRUCTURES ARE SOMETIMES BASED ON RIGID SYSTEMS AND IT OFT FEELS AS IF THEY ARE CREATING THEMSELVES AS NATURAL PHENOMENA FROM LOGICAL SEQUENCE.

THIS APPROACH HAS ENTAILED DIFFICULTIES WITH THE BALANCE BETWEEN RESEARCH, EXPERIMENT AND ART.

OF PRIME IMPORTANCE IN THESE WORKS IS THE NECESSITY FOR THERE TO BE NUMEROUS ELEMENTS IN ORDER TO CONVERY THE DESIRED INFORMATION. AN EXAMPLE IS THE NUMBER SEQUENCE 1,1,2,3,5,.....IN WHICH A CERTAIN NUMBER OF STEPS ARE REQUIRED; OTHERWISE DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS AND SEQUENCES ARE MADE AVAILABLE.

AN ASPECT OF THIS WORK IS THAT THRU SCRUTINY AND CONTEMPLATION THEY ARE ABLE TO BE UNRAVELED AND THEIR UNDERLYING ORDER AND BEAUTY REVEALED...........


SO MUCH FOR MY OFFICIAL STATEMENT ABOUT MY MATHEMATICAL/ARTISTIC IDEAS; WHICH HAS MORE TO DO WITH THE WORK I DID IN THE 1970'S AND EIGHTIES; THOUGH STILL RELEVANT AS I CONTINUE TO WORK ON PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES; THE NEW MATH/ART.