Richard Kurtz: The End Game

Opening at the Goldleaf Gallery (inside Goldleaf Framemakers of Santa Fe) on Friday, June 12, 2009 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm

It’s a brutal world out there and we’ve all got to step up our game in order to fight the good fight. Kurtz’ images open the collective wound: exploring emotional landscapes and bearing messages of peace, love, tenderness, tenacity and confusion.  They reflect the hard won wisdom and humor of a warrior who’s not afraid to take a few hits and come back swinging..

Crudely painted on shot-up targets and credit cards – with collaged elements ranging from feathers to bits of shiny trash – his use of materials echoes the current world crisis of failed economics and rampant gun violence.

Kurtz has been obsessively painting boxers for years and his works have been acquired by the deYoung Museum, The Clinton Foundation and numerous private collectors of outsider as well as contemporary art.

For a biography of Richard Kurtz please see his web site at www.richardkurtz.com