Biografia
Chicago artist Richard Shipps explores the ambiguity of form, shape, tone and movement through drawings, sculpture, mobiles and cut paper. His work examines the dynamic tensions between light and shadow and the interplay of negative and positive form. His focus is on the push and pull -- juxtaposition and synergy of image. Richard works in a variety of media to express his vision, from steel sculpture to cut paper, mobiles and installations.
His work looks at shadow as light, light as shadow, revealing imagery in both positive and negative space in a framework of changing references. The shapes and their visual rhythms are informed by shape-memories and distant emotions -- defined by adjacent counter-forms -- creating a constant meditative conversion of rhythmic balance from shape to counter-shape.
