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Jesse Richards Wiki Information
Jesse Richards
(born July 17, 1975) is a painter, filmmaker and photographer from New Haven, Connecticut and was affiliated with the British art movement Stuckism.[
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Early life
Jesse Richards was born in New Haven. [ He had an ambition to be a forest ranger during his teens, [1] which was also the time he started to make films.][ He studied film production at the School of Visual Arts, New York, which he left after a nervous breakdown. [2] He directed plays including "Hamlet" and "Look Back In Anger" for the New Haven Theatre Company, and made short romance and punk films.][
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In 1999, Richards was arrested for reckless burning, destruction of property and disorderly conduct.[ After the charges were dropped, he began painting.][
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Stuckism
Richards affiliated with the Stuckist art movement in 2001 and founded the first Stuckism center in the United States in 2002, helping to organize shows. The center opened its doors with a show entitled "We Only Want to Do Some Fucking Paintings."[
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In 2003, an anti-war "Clown Trial of President Bush" took place outside the New Haven Federal Courthouse,[ in order to "highlight the fact that the Iraq war does not have the support of the United Nations, thus violating a binding contract with the UN".][ It was staged by local Stuckist artists dressed in clown costume, led by Richards with Nicholas Watson and Tony Juliano. One of the participants was a public defender for the state of Connecticut. [3]
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Simultaneously the Stuckism center opened a War on Bush
show, including work from Brazil, Australia, Germany and the UK, while the London equivalent staged a War on Blair
show. [4] Richards said the original intention of a straightforward art show had been changed after a phone discussion with Stuckism founder, Charles Thomson. [5] Richards told The Yale Herald
, "Duchamp would go over to the Yale University Art Gallery and he would say, 'This is crap,' and he would go paint a picture." [6]
Also in 2003, Richards was an exhibitor in the UK show, Stuck in Wednesbury
at Wednesbury Museum & Art Gallery, the first Stuckist show in a public gallery, [7] and in The Stuckists Summer Show
at the Stuckism International Gallery, London. [8]
In 2004, Richards was one of eight artists in the "International Stuckists" section of The Stuckists Punk Victorian
show at the Walker Art Gallery [9] during the Liverpool Biennial. He said of his exhibited work, Nightlife
: "This came out of heavy drinking and loneliness. New Haven's social scene is entirely going to bars, so it was my only way to meet new people."[
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thumb. My Grandfather Will Fight You
. Praised by Richards.
Richards reviewed the Biennial and the Stuckist show, where he found Joe Machine's My Grandfather Will Fight You
, "one of the best Stuckist paintings. Machine's work is the epitome of raw, real expressive painting." [10] He said that Stuckist Photographer Andy Bullock's work was "silly installation photography" which was "trying to be trendy."[
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In 2005, 160 paintings from the Walker Art Gallery show, including one by Richards, [11] were offered as a donation to the Tate gallery, but rejected by Sir Nicholas Serota, because "We do not feel that the work is of sufficient quality in terms of accomplishment, innovation or originality of thought to warrant preservation in perpetuity in the national collection". [12]
In 2005, Richards was a co-ordinator of, and participated in, Addressing the Shadow and Making Friends with Wild Dogs: Remodernism
, the first Remodernism exhibition in the US to include work from all of the Remodernist groups, including the Stuckists, the Defastenists, Remodernist Film and Photography, and Stuckism Photography. [13] The show took place at the CBGB 313 gallery.[
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In 2006, Richards was one of the artists in The Triumph of Stuckism
, a show at Liverpool John Moores University Hope Street Gallery, curated by Naive John at the invitation of Professor Colin Fallows, Chair of Research at Liverpool School of Art and Design, and part of the Liverpool Biennial 2006. [14]
Richards left the Stuckist movement in 2006. [15]
Film and photography
Richards has worked on films with Nicholas Watson since 1996. [16] Their film noir, Blackout
, was premiered at the event Stuck Films
at the New Haven Stuckism International Center in 2002. [17][
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In 2003, Richards co-produced Shooting at the Moon
, a short film premiering at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.[ In 2008, the film made its London premiere at Horse Hospital during its FLIXATION Underground Cinema Club event. Richards said that his films had previously often contained nudity, but this time he wanted to do the opposite and the two leads do not quite even kiss:][
]While making this film I guess the main thing we were thinking about accomplishing was to express this emotional experience, and have people really feel it, and not to get too complicated with story or anything that would distract from this feeling we wanted people to have while watching the film.
In 2004, Richards and fellow filmmaker Harris Smith co-founded Remodernist Film and Photography, a new Remodernist group attempting to introduce Remodernist/Stuckist values into film and photography.
A book of pinhole photography called "Dark Chamber", featuring new work by Richards as well as work by Wolf Howard, Billy Childish and others was published by Urban Fox Press in May 2007.
In 2008, Richards published a Remodernist Film Manifesto, calling for a "new spirituality in cinema" and the use of intuition in filmmaking. [18] He described Remodernist film as a "stripped down, minimal, lyrical, punk kind of filmmaking",[. Point four of the manifesto is:
]The Japanese ideas of wabi-sabi (the beauty of imperfection) and mono no aware (the awareness of the transience of things and the bittersweet feelings that accompany their passing), have the ability to show the truth of existence, and should always be considered when making the remodernist film.
There were also criticisms of Stanley Kubrick, digital video, and Dogme 95.[
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Brian Sherwin said of Richards that his work was "Street truth":[
]His work may seem crude to some, but at least it is honest (sometimes brutally honest.) This honesty is captured by his ability to convey human behavior and struggles with each shot from his camera.
Richards currently lives in Granby, Massachusetts.
Shows
Stuckist group shows organised by Richards include:
- 2002 We Just Wanna Show Some Fucking Paintings
- 2003 War on Bush
- 2004 The Stuckists Punk Victorian In the Toilet
- 2005 Addressing the Shadow and Making Friends with Wild Dogs: Remodernism
Filmography
- Frank's Wild Years
1994/1995
- I Wonder
1996
- Sex and Lies
1997 [19] (destroyed except for trailer)
- Blackout
2000
- Shooting at the Moon
1998. Re-edit 2003
See also
- Remodernist Film
- Stuckism in America
- Stuckist demonstrations
- Pinhole Photography
Notes and references
- "'Nightlife', Jesse Richards", Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool. Retrieved April 15, 2007.
- Milner, Frank (2004). ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', p. 132. National Museums Liverpool, ISBN 1-902700-27-9
- "Clown Trial of President Bush", stuckism.com. Retrieved March 27, 2006.
- "War on Blair/Bush", stuckism.com, 2003. Retrieved March 27, 2006.
- Donar, Erin. "'Stuckists' protest war with art", ''Yale Daily News'', March 27, 2003. Retrieved August 20, 2009.
- "Stuckists scoff at 'crap' war", ''The Yale Herald'', March 28, 2003. Retrieved March 27, 2006.
- "Archive: Diary", stuckism.com. Retrieved on August 20, 2009.
- "The Stuckists Summer Show (2003)", stuckism.com. Retrieved August 27, 2009.
- "International Stuckists", Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool. Retrieved August 20, 2009.
- Richards, Jesse. "Liverpool Biennial: Stuck In Liverpool", ''NYArts'', November/December 2004. Retrieved August 20, 2009.
- "Works offered as a donation and rejected by the Tate gallery", stuckism.com. Retrieved 8 April 2008.
- Alberge, Dalya. "Tate rejects £500,000 gift from 'unoriginal' Stuckists", ''The Times'', 28 July 2005. Retrieved 1 February 2008.
- "Addressing the Shadow and Making Friends with Wild Dogs: Remodernism", stuckism.com, 2005. Retrieved on August 20, 2009 from the Internet Archive of August 3, 2005.
- "The Triumph of Stuckism", Liverpool John Moores University, 2006. Retrieved on August 20, 2009 from the Internet Archive store of April 14, 2006.
- Sherwin, Brian. "Art Space Talk: Jesse Richards", Myartspace, November 24, 2006. Retrieved May 4, 2008.
- "Home", New Haven Stuckists Film Group. Retrieved August 27, 2009.
- Dauphinais, Jennifer. "Maya your days be merry", New Haven Advocate, December 19, 2002. Retrieved August 27, 2009 from the Internet Archive store of June 13, 2003.
- Richards, Jesse. "Remodernist Film Manifesto", When the trees were still real, August 27, 2008. Retrieved August 20, 2008.
- "Sex and Lies" stuckfilm.com. Retrieved August 27, 2009.
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