Richard Tuttle Biography
Tuttle Richard (Rahway, 1941) Richard Tuttle is a post-minimalist artist, known for creating delicate, small sculptures and installations, which he often describes as drawings. After studying at Trinity College in Hartford from 1959 to 1963, Tuttle moved to New York to continue his studies at Cooper Union and work as an assistant at the Betty Parsons Gallery. His friendship with the painter Agnes Martin strongly influenced his work: both artists, in fact, share an emphasis on small scale and line in drawing. Tuttle's installations, however, challenge the monumental scale and metal materials used by minimalist artists. The Octagonal Cards (1970), for example, are a series of 12 shapes cut on white paper, which almost disappear into a gallery wall. Tuttle's work grew in scale starting in 1980, as seen in his Replace the Abstract Plane IV, 40 pieces of plywood painted in brilliant colors. His works can be found in collections of many museums, such as the Fog Art Museum in Cambridge, the MA, the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Ludwig Museum in Cologne. He held a retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2005, and his work has been exhibited in museums around the world, such as the Whtney Museum of American Art in New York, the Kunsthaus Zug in Switzerland, and the Museu Serralvesin in Portugal . The artist is represented by Sperone Westwater Gallery in New York.
