Ricky Golden Featured at 42 Maple
Ricky Golden’s Original Artwork Showcased
Vermont native, Ricky Golden, brings his artwork to 42 Maple Contemporary Art Center in July. Golden’s body of work, titled “Reflective ‘Singularity'” showcases his newest expression of the nude form. It’s painted in a style he calls ‘gestural painting open style.’ According to Golden, this technique encapsulates the freest and most authentic form of expression.
About the Project
Golden says the gesture drawings that he has studied for several years captures the human form. Not only in free expression but also in the purest form. It is the instinct of both the artist’s brain and hand motor skill that is expressed by the simple stroke.
This project includes forms painted most recently on nine-foot corrugated tin panels. Golden salvaged them from a burned down and devastated house across from his studio in St. Johnsbury Center.
Golden said the panels spoke to him. “They have a natural smoke and fire as well as elemental pattern from not only enduring the fire scorch but also from years of protecting the roof of a building and becoming rusty and withered from the harsh rains and snows of Vermont’s beautiful but brutal four seasons of weather.”
Inspiration
After coating the panels in a transparent protective layer and sealing them with an undercoating, Golden then determines the best of the two sides. As well as the purest and most appealing and exciting way to look at the panel. Then he applies any human shape.
Golden says his inspirational nude forms come mainly from the mirror photographs. And other types of so-called “selfies” that people take and share with others from their phones. He then sketches and makes smaller studies first. As well as envisioning the paintings before undertaking the actual wet dripping stylistic gesture painting itself.
He achieves this by using quick original thought stokes to capture and express the form, which allows the image to come to life in its way while also allowing the wet acrylic paint to drip and find a path across the corrugation and the old nail holes of the naturally seasoned tin panels.
“I feel like these new paintings are a flash capture of a moment in time that my wild, ever-moving brain has focused on for a second to capture my thoughts and brain function that allows me to create an image and painting throughout my life.”
About Ricky Golden
Golden says he has always been an artistic creator, whether it be acrylic on canvas as he was taught as a youth, or oil, watercolor, and gouache in college. He likes to use found objects.
Golden was first interested in the nude form in sixth grade while attending figure drawing classes at the high school where his father taught art. He attended summer sessions at Lyme Academy. As well as an art school in White Plains, learning many life drawing and painting techniques.
After graduating from St. Johnsbury Academy, Golden attended Concordia College in Montreal for two-dimensional visual art. He transferred to Marist College on the banks of the Hudson River, where some of his art heroes of the early Hudson River School had lived and worked. Realizing he wanted to study the traditional art of these painters, Golden soon left Marist and transferred again to Salve Regina. A sister school of the Rhode Island School of Design.
At Salve, he could continue to learn and practice under RISD and Salve faculty artists. Graduating from Salve with a degree in classic painting and drawing, Golden went into the world where he has continued to create art as well as music, song, and poetry.
Event Details
An opening reception for Golden is scheduled for Friday, July 5 at 7 p.m. at 42 Maple Contemporary Art Center. Reflective ‘Singularity’ will be on display through the end of July. The opening reception is a free event open to the public.
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