Richard Gorman

Richard Gorman, who is well known for his temperate form, sensual color and visual abundance has gained a lot of attention in Europe and Japan and is being exhibited for the first time in Korea. He is represented exclusive by Kerlin Gallery which is the most prestigious gallery in Ireland. In 1995, he received the Pollock-Krasner Award. A number of his works have been collected by the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Ulster Museum and the Library of New York.

His work is based on minimal color and geometrical form that he has pursued over the past 20 years. Recently his naturally understated gifts as a colorist have became more and more evident as he explores the compositional tension between increasingly prominent and boldly simplified, irregular blocks of color.
His works begin with the question what exists inside and outside of the painting. Through a meditative and thoughtful process he gradually erases diversities. The paintings which are full of clear shapes, bold colors are balanced with in the fixed canvas, yet he are not limited by this fixed space. Richard Gorman tried to make his work meditative and wants viewers to reflect on them without excessive explanation.

Gorman says of his work : "My paintings are not conceptual in the sense of being planned out in advance, and may go through many changes in their period of evolution. I try to remain open to the possibility surprise, while searching to achieve unity in the tensions and balances between area of color and their relationship with the edge of the canvas."