Artist Name

Using monotype color flats and hand-hewn stencil shapes, Brooklyn-based artist Margaux Ogden approached her first project with Aurobora as an opportunity to deconstruct her painting practice and to examine the compositional structure, palette, and traditional forms within a new medium.

Through experimentation, Ogden was able to fuzz the borderline between incidental and intentional mark-making.  Ogden treated each of these compositions without formal, rigid parameters and instead allowed herself to embrace the unexpected moments that sprang from each run of the printing press—stencil shapes substituted for rendering a subject, strips of tape and razor-blade cut-outs dictated spatial breakdowns of the compositional plane, layering color on top of color determined a final palette.

Over the course of her studio time at Aurobora, the artist searched for that provisional moment where the unfinished, unpredictable quality of her paintings could step out into the foreground in these works on paper.  It is as though Ogden’s hand-worked monotypes and her paintings on raw canvas carry on a reflective conversation, as if each seized the opportunity to connect with the interior impulse of the other, to access a different elemental beauty, to achieve a communion.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
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2010
Richmond Burton: Show, Aurobora, San Francisco, CA
Richmond Burton, WANAS Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden

2009
Richmond Burton: Monotypes, Aurobora, San Francisco, CA
Show Name Here, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

2007
Richmond Burton, Madison Square Park, New York, NY

2006
Richmond Burton: Show, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR

Richmond Burton: New Work, James Cohan Gallery, New York, January 14 – February 25, 2006 (one-person exhibition)

2005
Ecstasy: In and About Altered States, organized by Paul Schimmel with Gloria Sutton,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (group exhibition; catalogue)

AWARDS

2006
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

1997
Trustees Award for an Emerging Artist, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,Washington, D.C.
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The New School for Social Research, New York, NY
NMAC, Cadiz, Spain
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Wanas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY