{"id":1121,"date":"2021-07-01T14:21:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T14:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/cfam\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2021-07-01T14:39:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T14:39:55","slug":"ridley-howard-paintings-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/2021\/07\/01\/ridley-howard-paintings-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridley Howard: Paintings &#038; Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Earlier this week I happened to get off the elevator on the second floor of <a href=\"https:\/\/thealfondinn.com\/art-collection\/\">The Alfond Inn<\/a>. I had not been on that floor recently, so it had been a while since I had seen <strong>Ridley Howard\u2019s <em>Motel Pool<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 One of the best things about working in a museum is that, while you get to live with a collection, you don\u2019t see all of it all the time. And there must be an art historical version of \u201cabsence makes the heart grow fonder,\u201d because again and again, when I haven\u2019t seen a particular work for some time,\u00a0 it manages to surprise and delight me anew. It is precisely what happened this time. The painting is centered on the wall directly in front of the elevator doors, and yet, when I took it in I had the distinct feeling that I was looking at a corner of a larger composition, stepping into a generous space of which the canvas was but a fragment. The off-center placement of the figures, only partially visible, and \u00a0their presence very close to the picture plane made me feel I was intruding in the private, tender moment shared by the couple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tender moments are precisely what much of Ridley Howard\u2019s painting is about. He talks about doing \u201cfundamentally romantic painting,\u201d purposefully including \u201ca kind of escapism in image and process.\u201d In&nbsp; <em>Motel Pool, <\/em>the romantic dimension is easy to read: a couple laying on a towel together, their bodies so close they read as one. So too, is the escapism of youthful, beautiful bodies in repose and, one imagines, on vacation somewhere warm and sunny. Delicate sensuality and gentle luminosity embrace the painting, spilling to its viewers: it\u2019s hard not to feel a little lighthearted. Yet if that was all Ridley Howard\u2019s paintings were about, he would be a very different painter. Instead, he surprises with a parallel dimension, more cerebral than expressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"901\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/cfam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/howard-ridley-motel-pool.jpg\" alt=\"Ridley Howard, Motel Pool, Rollins College\" class=\"wp-image-1122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/howard-ridley-motel-pool.jpg 901w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/howard-ridley-motel-pool-300x256.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/howard-ridley-motel-pool-768x655.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/howard-ridley-motel-pool-352x300.jpg 352w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/howard-ridley-motel-pool-100x85.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/howard-ridley-motel-pool-150x128.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/howard-ridley-motel-pool-200x170.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/howard-ridley-motel-pool-450x384.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/howard-ridley-motel-pool-600x511.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 901px) 100vw, 901px\" \/><figcaption>Ridley Howard (American, b. 1973), <em>Motel Pool<\/em>, 2019, Oil on linen, 60 x 72 in., The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art at Rollins College, Gift of Barbara &#8217;68 and Theodore &#8217;68 Alfond, 2019.2.4. Image courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Behind and around the figures, the majority of the painting reads like an abstract composition: bands of different shades of blue, more saturated as they get closer to the top of the canvas. The color variation plays with our perception of space: according to the laws of perspective, distance is inversely proportional to color saturation. Here, instead, the figures in the foreground are soft and hazy, while the top band of color, farthest away from us, is the brightest blue. According to Howard, even when the backgrounds contain references to real places, they are \u201cfictional versions of those places.\u201d &nbsp;I think they could also be characterized as symbolic. They are built gradually from layering paint, experimenting with&nbsp; density and tonality, paying attention to the subtlest differences of tone. Their lightness belies a lengthy process of mixing color until the perfect shade reveals itself. Invariably empty of details, the backgrounds read as two-dimensional abstractions more than depictions of space. Other works by Howard \u2013 such as <strong><em>Diamonds in Gray Landscape<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em>also part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollins.edu\/cornell-fine-arts-museum\/collection\/alfond\/\">Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art at Rollins College<\/a>&nbsp; <em>\u2013 <\/em>let us in on the artifice fully: geometric shapes take center stage, inhabiting&nbsp; the space without narrative links to the figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"656\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/cfam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/howard-ridley-diamonds-in-gray-landscape.jpg\" alt=\"Ridley Howard, Diamonds in Gray Landscape, Rollins College \" class=\"wp-image-1123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/howard-ridley-diamonds-in-gray-landscape.jpg 656w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/howard-ridley-diamonds-in-gray-landscape-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/howard-ridley-diamonds-in-gray-landscape-100x117.jpg 100w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/howard-ridley-diamonds-in-gray-landscape-150x176.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/howard-ridley-diamonds-in-gray-landscape-200x234.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/howard-ridley-diamonds-in-gray-landscape-300x351.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/howard-ridley-diamonds-in-gray-landscape-450x527.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/rma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/howard-ridley-diamonds-in-gray-landscape-600x702.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><figcaption>Ridley Howard (American, b. 1973), <em>Diamonds in Gray Landscape<\/em>, 2018, Oil on linen, 83 3\/4 x 71 5\/8 in., The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art at Rollins College, Gift of Barbara &#8217;68 and Theodore &#8217;68 Alfond, 2018.1.21. Image courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As I looked at <strong><em>Motel Pool <\/em><\/strong>anew the other day, I realized that&nbsp; it is this unexpected juxtaposition of off-center, fragmented figures \u2013 often couples tenderly kissing or immersed in one another, or female figures with slighlty outmoded makeup, as if belonging to an earlier era \u2013 and the spaces they don\u2019t quite inhabit, abstract and textural backgrounds reading almost as independent compositions, that makes Howard\u2019s paintings unique. They are built from two incongruous parts which, ostensibly, do not belong in the same painting \u2013 and yet they match and complete each other perfectly. &nbsp;I turned away from the painting with a smile on my face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week I happened to get off the elevator on the second floor of The Alfond Inn. 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