Rosalyn Richards

Strange Alchemy, by Rosalyn Richards

2009

Rosalyn Richards has been a member of the Bucknell University art faculty since 1982. She has had solo shows throughout the United States, and her work is represented in many major museum collections. Artist Statement Images from particle physics, satellite photography, biotechnology, radiology, geological survey maps,have all served as influences on my work. My paintings, prints, and drawings relate to our human need to construct our experiences in nature using involved systems of design and technology. We are unable to separate our more direct experiences of the natural world from what we know of nature through technological advancements in image making. In some of my work I have taken apart the visual language of charting, and reconstructed this language to create imaginary maps. The maps become metaphors for inner journeys, and are also meant to suggest playful and whimsical approaches to the usually serious function of diagrams. Games, puzzles, and maps can be seen as points of reference into the world of the imagination which strives to create order, systems, and microcosms out of a vaster and more unpredictable universe. MUSEUM COLLECTIONS: Chicago Art Institute Mineapolis Institute of the Arts University of Minnesota Yale University Art Gallery Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts - UCLA New Britain Center of American Art State University of New Mexico - Las Cruces Hood Museum - Dartmouth College Bucknell University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ackland Art Museum - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Museum of Art - Rhode Island School of Design Brooklyn Museum Portland Art Museum - Oregon