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RICHARD HOWE

Originally trained as a musician, Richard Howe worked for John Cage in the 1960s and has ever since been drawn to the extremes of density and sparsity in which chance and necessity, intention and accident, ambiguously converge. Largely self-taught, he nevertheless owes much to the painters John Hultberg, Larry Goldsmith, and Darragh Park, and to the photographer Becket Logan.

His work has been exhibited in the New York area and elsewhere since 1991, and has been in the Kentler International Drawing Space Flatfiles collection for the past ten years. Selections from The Manhattan Street Corners, his large-scale documentary photography project, are in the Permanent Collection of the Library of Congress and have been featured in the Sunday New York Times. His drawings are in museum, corporate, and private collections, and are a regular feature of the Kentler's annual guest-curated gallery show.


       


Photo: Becket Logan

EXHIBITIONS

  • December 2009: "KID'S PICKS" — a community-kids-curated holiday exhibition from the Kentler Flat Files. Kentler Gallery, Red Hook (Brooklyn), NY. Drawing.

  • November 2009: "Panoramas Literal & Abstract" — selections from The Manhattan Street Corners and selected works on paper. Department of Fine Art, St. John’s Hall Mezzanine, St. John’s University, Queens, NY. Photographs, drawings, & watercolors.

  • November 2009: "Harbor Lights" — the Upper New York Bay. Second & Seventh Gallery (MCC), New York, NY. Photographs.

  • June 2009: "Degrees of Density" — Kentler Gallery artists group show guest-curated by Marilyn Symmes, Director & Curator, Morse Research Center for Graphic Arts, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. Kentler Gallery, Red Hook (Brooklyn), NY. Drawings.

    • "Degrees of Density" will travel to the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK,
      March 26 - May 9, 2010.

  • June 2008: "The Persistence of Line" — Kentler Gallery artists group show guest-curated by Charlotta Kotik, Brooklyn Museum Curator of Contemporary Art Emerita. Kentler Gallery, Red Hook (Brooklyn), NY. Drawings.

  • February 2008: "Uptown" — further selections from The Manhattan Street Corners. Second & Seventh Gallery (MCC), New York, NY. Photographs.

  • November 2007: "The Manhattan Street Corners" — selections from The Manhattan Street Corners. Second & Seventh Gallery (MCC), New York, NY. Photographs.

  • June 2007: "Chance & Necessity" — Kentler Gallery artists group show guest-curated by Isabelle Dervaux, Morgan Library Curator of Contemporary Drawings. Kentler Gallery, Red Hook (Brooklyn), NY. Drawings.

  • February 2007: "From the Kentler Flatfiles" — Kentler Gallery artists group show. BAMArt at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY. Drawing.

  • June 2006: "Figure? Ground" — Kentler Gallery artists group show guest-curated by Carter Foster, Whitney Museum Curator of Drawings. Kentler Gallery, Red Hook (Brooklyn), NY. Pastels.

  • August 2005: "New York at Night" — large triptych (each panel 40" x 60"). Second & Seventh Gallery (MCC), New York, NY. Photographs.

  • July 2005: Gallery Opening Show. DeLa Arts Place, Cincinnati, OH. Photographs.

  • November 2004: "Light in Zion: Jerusalem, 2004." Second & Seventh Gallery (MCC), New York, NY. Photographs.

  • July 2003: Summer Gallery Artists Show. Kentler Gallery, Red Hook (Brooklyn), NY. Drawings.

  • March-April 2003: "The Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought" — group show curated by Mercedes Vicente. Bronx River Arts Center, The Bronx, NY. Drawings.

  • February 2003: "Drawings" — solo show. Kentler Gallery, Red Hook (Brooklyn), NY. Drawings.

  • November 2001: "9/11: Artists Respond" — group show curated by Florence Neal. Kentler Gallery, Red Hook (Brooklyn), NY. Drawings. The show subsequently travelled to:

    • The Bronx River Arts Center, The Bronx, NY. (January, 2002)

    • The Fairleigh Dickinson Art Gallery, Teaneck, NJ. (September, 2002)

    • The Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI. (November, 2002)

  • January 1997: "Art 2000" — College Art Association group show. Aronson Gallery (Parsons School), New York, NY. Drawing.

  • December 1996: Gallery Opening Show. Vincent Gabrielli Gallery, New York, NY. Drawings & watercolors.

  • March 1992: Annual Spring Show. Fairfield County Artists Association, Bethel, CT. Watercolor.

  • July 1991: Summer Group Show. Nardin Fine Arts, Cross River, NY. Watercolors.


COLLECTIONS

  • The Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

  • The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA.

  • The Kentler Flatfiles, Kentler Gallery, Red Hook (Brooklyn), NY.

  • Cantor Fitzgerald, New York, NY.

  • The Drawing Center Registry, New York, NY (2004-2006).

  • Numerous private collections.


GUEST APPEARANCES

  • 2009: Visiting Artist, lecture on The Manhattan Street Corners, St. John’s University Art Department, Queens, NY.

  • 2009: Panelist, The Nerve of Drawing, symposium sponsored by the Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, NY.

  • 2007: Panelist, The Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought, symposium sponsored by the Bronx River Arts Center, The Bronx, NY.


PUBLICATIONS

  • 2008: “Cornerville,” in The Sunday New York Times, City Section, November 30, 2008, pp. 1 & 8. Nine photographs from The Manhattan Street Corners, together with an essay by PEN/Faulkner Award winning novelist Joseph O’Neill, author of Netherland (Pantheon, 2008).

  • 2007: “Library Acquires First Digital Panoramas of New York City Street Corners,” in the Library of Congress’ Madison Council Bulletin, Fall 2007, pp. 18–19. Includes three photographs from from The Manhattan Street Corners,.


INTERNET PRESENCE

  • The Manhattan Street Corners is reviewed, commented on, or linked to at around 150 websites world-wide on the internet (search for “The Manhattan Street Corners” at any time for a complete current listing).


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