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Richard Harrington

Folded aluminum screen, cast shadow from projected theater light.
Artist Statement:
Though the things I make may vary from year to year, they are inspired by the visual perception of light, color and geometry in various interactions.
Biography:
Richard Harrington is a native of Adams, MA, and currently lives in Northern Berkshire County. He has both a master and bachelor of fine arts from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.
His first experimented with digital printing in the early 70’s using a 3M Color-in-Color dye sublimation machine at MIT Press. At graduate school he began collaborating with Matt Belge on light installation and environmental artworks. For two decades Matt and Richard exhibited at MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, the Herning Kunstmeum in Denmark, the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, and for the City of Cambridge Millennial festival in 2000.

He concurrently worked with laser and high-resolution inkjet printers since the early 90’s while working at Adobe Systems. Some of his prints are in the permanent print collection of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University.

Richard’s prints can be seen on his website www.lughfineart.net, and it is currently available for sale at Hudsons, a gallery of fine art and antiques on the MassMoca campus in North Adams and Williamstown. He has also been working with vector based works collectively called 1.618 for about five years.

Education:
Mfa., Bfa., Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Projects in environmental art, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.

Instructor of Color Theory and Practice, Program of Continuing Education, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA.

Selected exhibitions:
1984 Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
1986, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
1989, Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Denmark
1994, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
1996, Sasaki Associates, Architects, Watertown, MA
2000, Commonlight, Millennial celebration, City of Cambridge, Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, MA.
2008, 09 Hudsons Gallery, North Adams and Williamstown, MA
2009, Illuminati at the Eclipse Mill, North Adams, MA

Selected collections
Weyerhauser collection of prints, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Eleanor Munro, editor and writer, Art News magazine, New York, NY
Niccolo Brooker, Forum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Artist Website:
www.lughfineart.net
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