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Connecticut artist Richard Carleton offers a “visual epiphany” of diverse images realized in the paintings and etchings presented in his new exhibition running through February 7, 2005, at the Good News Cafe & Gallery.
Mr. Carleton explains that the works selected for his show, “Paintings and Etchings,” are not the product of a specific artistic philosophy. “My pieces start out with a visual epiphany,” he says. “My etchings and paintings look as if they were done by different people, but they feel the same while I am doing them.
“I approach the etchings as a journeyman, as one who would travel around and record things as a product to sell, a tourist item, a keepsake, something sentimental,” the artist observes. “In the paintings, I have an interest in American transcendentalism and in the decorative aspect of painting.”
Mr. Carleton, a Branford resident who maintains an art studio in New Haven, has exhibited his paintings, prints and etchings widely in New York and across New England over the past three decades. Among his more than 20 shows at galleries and museums in Connecticut, he has offered recent solo exhibitions at the R.J. Julia Gallery in Madison and the Willoughby Wallace Gallery in Stony Creek. Selections from his works have also appeared in recent exhibitions at the juried Art Show Amherst in Amherst, Mass., the “Five Realists” show at the University of Connecticut at Stamford, and a group show at Cooley Gallery in Old Lyme.
A graduate of the Boston University School of Fine Arts and the Rhode Island School of Design, Mr. Carleton pursued post-graduate study with master printer Nancy Brokoft in New York. He has undertaken numerous commissions over the past 20 years for portraits and landscapes as well as etching editioning. His works are widely represented in private and corporate art collections. His professional affiliations include memberships in the Society of American Graphic Artists, the Boston Printmakers, and the California Society of Printmakers.
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