Richard Forster

Richard Forster
Saltburn Walk 1, 2006
graphite on paper
11-3/8 x 13-3/8 inches

Richard Forster
March Interior, 2007
graphite on paper
9-13/16 x 7-13/16 inches

Richard Forster
American Pastoral - Ostalgie Pattern with Tape, 2012
graphite and acrylic medium on bristol board
11-5/16 x 15-5/16 inches

Richard Forster
Austin Drawing II (Notes from an Architectural Underground)
, 2012
graphite and acrylic medium on bristol board
15-1/8 x 14-1/16 inches

Richard Forster
Austin Drawing I, 2012
graphite and acrylic medium on bristol board
15-3/16 x 10-1/16 inches

Richard Forster
Fashion Girl Woodland Shoot, 2012
graphite and acrylic medium on bristol board
12-1/16 x 8-1/8 inches

Richard Forster
Three Verticals at consecutive but random intervals, Saltburn-by the Sea, Jan 22, 2013, 11.55am-11.57am, 2013
graphite and acrylic on bristol board
Triptych, 17-3/4 x 11-7/8 inches each 

Richard Forster
Three Part Idea on Journey from Dresden to Dessau Jan 6 2010, 2012
graphite and acrylic medium on bristol board
12-3/8 x 18-3/16 inches

Richard Forster
Untitled (Figure), 2012
graphite and acrylic medium on bristol board
12-1/16 x 8-1/8 inches

Richard Forster
Incoming sea's edge on three consecutive occasions at random time intervals. Saltburn-by the Sea, January 5, 2010; 11.35-11.36am 2013, 2013
polymer photogravure; edition of 20
triptych; 33-1/2 x 22-5/16 inches each
 

Richard Forster
Incoming sea’s edge on three consecutive occasions at random time intervals, Saltburn, January 3, 2016; 11.01–11.02am, 2016
graphite and acrylic medium on paper
triptych: 19-1/4 x 13-1/4 x 1-1/2 inches each

Richard Forster
Incoming sea’s edge on three consecutive occasions at random time intervals. Saltburn, January 3, 2016; 11.14–11.15am, 2016
graphite and acrylic medium on paper
​triptych: 19-1/4 x 13-1/4 x 1-1/2 inches each

Richard Forster
Incoming sea's edge on three consecutive occasions at random time intervals. Saltburn, January 3, 2016; 11.18–11.20am, 2016
graphite and acrylic medium on paper
​triptych: 19-1/4 x 13-1/4 x 1-1/2 inches each

Richard Forster
Incoming sea's edge on three consecutive occasions at random time intervals. Saltburn, January 3, 2016; 11.31–11.33am, 2016
graphite and acrylic medium on paper
​triptych: 19-1/4 x 13-1/4 x 1-1/2 inches each

Levittown Rancher Floor Plan, 4 July 2015, 10.32 am, 2015
graphite and acrylic medium on paper
13-1/8 x 10-5/8 inches

Levittown Rancher Floor Plan, 4 July 2015. 5.32 pm, 2015
graphite and acrylic medium on paper
13-1/8 x 10-5/8 inches

Levittown Variation: Google 1950’s Advertisement, 2015
graphite and acrylic medium on paper
17-7/8 x 11-1/8 inches

Richard Forster
Levittown, Levittown I, 2015
graphite and acrylic medium on paper
​19 x 12-1/4 inches

Richard Forster 
More Cape Cods, Levittown, 2015 
graphite, acrylic medium on paper 
​17 x 11-1/4 inches 

Levittown Variation: Rancher Floor Plan Proportions, 2015
graphite and acrylic medium on paper
11-5/8 x 10-3/4 inches

Richard Forster
Levittown Variation: Mendelsohn @Bexhill, 2015
graphite and acrylic medium on paper
​16-3/8 x 10-5/8 inches

Richard Forster
Levittown Variation: Ostalgie Pattern, 2015
graphite and acrylic medium on paper
​17-1/8 x 10-5/8 inches

Richard Forster
Levitt Cape Cods x 2 (under construction), 2015
graphite and acrylic medium on paper
​12-1/8 x 8-1/8 inches

Richard Forster
Levittown, September, 2015
watercolor, graphite, and acrylic on paper
​overall: 31 x 41-1/4 inches, nine parts

Richard Forster
Levittown, October, 2015
watercolor, graphite, and acrylic on paper
​grid: 31 x 41-1/4 inches, nine parts

Richard Forster
Levittown, November, 2015
watercolor, graphite, and acrylic on paper
​overall: 31 x 41-1/4 inches, nine parts

RIchard Forster
Levittown, December, 2015
watercolor, graphite, and acrylic on paper
​overall: 31 x 41-1/4 inches, nine parts

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Born 1970 Saltburn-by-the Sea, Cleveland, UK

Education
1993-1995
MA Visual Theories, University of East London
1989-1992
BA(Hons) Fine Art, Machester Polytechnic

Solo Exhibitions
2016

• De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, England
2015
• Modern, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England 
2014
• Modern, Ingelby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2012
• The Flag Art Foundation, New York
2011
• Fast and Slow Time, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, England
2008
• Untitled 9-64, (Seascapes), Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
• Richard Forster, MOT International, London
2006
• Jerwood Artist's Platform, Cell Project Space, London

Selected Group Exhibitions
2016
• 
Double Take: Drawing and Photography, The Photographers' Gallery, London, England
2015
• Small Worlds, The New Art Gallery Walsall, United Kingdom
2014
• Dark Matter, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Summer Show, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
• Drawn to the Real, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
• Year after Year: Works from the UBS Collection, Galleria d'Arte Modern, Villa Reale, Milan, Italy
2013
• personal, political, mysterious, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
• ik wordt, Voorkamer, Lier, Belgium
• Richard Forster and Ewan Gibbs, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
2012
• Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
• Drawn from Photography, DePaul Museum, Chicago, Illinois
• Slow Looking: Contemporary Drawing, Tate Britain, Millbank, England
2011
• Graphite, Gallery North, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
• Drawn from Photography, The Drawing Center, New York
• A Travelling Gallery Exhibition, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland
• 2010
• Deliberations from a Collector, Centre for Recent Drawing, London
• Make Room: Interventions into the Garman Ryan Collection, New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
• The Tower of Babel / In and Out of Place, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London
2009
• A Work a Day, MOT International, London
• Obsession: Contemporary Art from the Lodeveans Collection, University of Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, England
2008
• Northern Art Prize, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, England
• MONOCHROME: Drawings and Prints, Rabley Drawing Centre, Wiltshire, England
2007
• Richard Forster & Richard Artschwager, Ingelby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
• Working Things Out, Spike Island, Bristol, England
• The Opposite of Vertigo, The Drawing Room, London
2006
• The Opposite of Vertigo, Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland
• Daisychain, MOT International, London
• Blue Star, Red Wedge, Glasgow International, Glasgow, Scotland
2005
• Yes, No: Richard Forster, Eva Weinmayr, Vane, Newcastle, England
2004
• Some Versions of Light, The Telephone Repeater Station, North Yorkshire, England
• A Thing About Painting, Platform, London
2003
• Look to this Day, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, England
2002
• Gatsby, The New Lansdowne Club, London
• Matt Calderwood, Richard Forster, Alexis Harding, Peter Harris, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2001
• Richard Forster, Richard Woods, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle, England
• The (Ideal) Home Show, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London
2000
• Paint Too, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland, England
1999
• Richard Forster and Peter Harris, 33 Great Sutton Street, London
1998
• Plug-in painting two: Office in a big town, 33 Great Sutton Street, London
• Plug-in painting one: Work for a council flat, Sali Gia, London

Collections

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Flag Art Foundation, New York
Tate Britain, Millbank, England
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Government Art Collection, United Kingdom
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England