Brian Richmond

Chester County, PA artist Brian Richmond creates meticulous acrylic-on-paper paintings inspired by suburban sprawl and advertising materials. They address the ubiquitousness of mass-produced packaging, highly manufactured refuse that permeates our daily lives and environments in such a powerful way that we hardly notice it anymore. By individualizing these pieces of discarded packaging - coffee cups, soda cups, and other fast food containers - he transforms the mundane object into something entirely unique and alluring. These paintings function as painstaking meditations on the pervasive commercialization of our contemporary landscape.