Richard Carlson, United States

"Richard A. Carlson is an award-winning abstract painter. He has achieved notable success for his skilled use of acrylics on paper or wooden panel surfaces that are both complex and decorative with an illusion of depth that fools ones eye. His finished work reflects the image of a photograph that is still being developed in a darkroom. A build up of multiple acrylic layers and the application of geometrical shapes synthesize simplicity and complexity, suppleness and rigidity, with the intuitive and the analytical, and results in a 3-dimensional-like illusion. Carlson’s work has been shown widely in the eastern, Midwestern, and southern parts of the United States, and is represented in national and international private and corporate collections."