Jesse Richards

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Jesse Richards as Frank in his film "Frank's Wild Years"
Jesse Richards as Frank in his film "Frank's Wild Years"

Jesse Richards (born July 17, 1975) is a painter, filmmaker and photographer from New Haven, Connecticut and is affiliated with the British art movement Stuckism.

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[edit] Life and film

Richards was born in New Haven and studied film production at the School of Visual Arts, New York, which he left after a nervous breakdown. He directed plays including "Hamlet" and "Look Back In Anger" for the New Haven Theatre Company, and made short romance/punk films.

In 1999, Richards was arrested for reckless burning, destruction of property and disorderly conduct. After the charges were dropped, he began painting.

Richards' short Super-8 punk film co-directed with Nicholas Watson, Shooting at the Moon premiered in 2003 at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.

In 2004, Richards and fellow filmmaker Harris Smith co-founded Remodernist Film and Photography, a new Remodernist group attempting to introduce Remodernist/Stuckist values into film and photography.

[edit] The Stuckists

Richards affiliated with the Stuckists movement in 2001 and founded the first Stuckism center in the United States in 2002, helping to organize shows. The center opened its doors with a show entitled "We Just Wanna Show Some F***ing Paintings."

To "highlight the fact that the Iraq war does not have the support of the United Nations, thus violating a binding contract with the UN", The Clown Trial of President Bush took place at 7 p.m. on March 21, 2003 on the steps of the New Haven Federal Courthouse, staged by local Stuckist artists dressed in clown costume, led by Richards with Nicholas Watson and Tony Juliano. One of the participants was "a public defender for the state of CT. He thought it would be cool to dress up with us as clowns and do the thing. He ended up playing the clown judge. The courthouse that he works at is a block away from the federal courthouse where we did this."[1]

Simultaneously the Stuckism center opened a War on Bush show, including work from Brazil, Australia, Germany and the UK, while the London equivalent staged a "War on Blair" show.[2] The Yale Herald reported with the headline, "Stuckists scoff at 'crap,' war". Richards took the opportunity to comment:

“ Duchamp would go over to the Yale University Art Gallery and he would say, 'This is crap,' and he would go paint a picture." [3] ”

In 2004 Richards was included in the Stuckists' first national gallery show, The Stuckists Punk Victorian, which was held at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool during the Liverpool Biennial.

In 2006 Richards was one of the featured artists in the Triumph of Stuckism, an exhibition of new Stuckist paintings curated by Naive John as part of the Liverpool Biennial 2006 in October.

[edit] Shows

Stuckist group shows organised by Richards include:

  • 2002 We Just Wanna Show Some F****n' Paintings
  • 2003 War on Bush
  • 2004 The Stuckists Punk Victorian In the Toilet
  • 2005 Addressing the Shadow and Making Friends with Wild Dogs: Remodernism

[edit] Filmography

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Clown Trial of President Bush on stuckism.com Retrieved March 27, 2006
  2. ^ War on Bush and War on Blair shows on stuckism.com with some paintings Retrieved March 27, 2006
  3. ^ "Stuckists scoff at 'crap' war", The Yale Herald, March 28, 2003 Retrieved March 27, 2006

[edit] External links

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