Nüart Gallery
670 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM
December 5-21, 2025
Opening reception Friday, December 5, 5–7 PM
In Time Dissolves Here, artist Willy Bo Richardson invites viewers into a world where color itself becomes a form of contemplation. His luminous chromatic paintings explore emotional and psychological resonance, creating spatial planes that suggest both stillness and motion—a place where time seems to dissolve.
Nüart Gallery
670 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501
10 AM–5 PM, Daily
505.988.3888
fineart@nuartgallery.com
Driven by an avid curiosity and a profound commitment to listening and looking, Richardson’s work unfolds as an ongoing inquiry into perception. His paintings highlight optical effects and the ways in which color and gesture can reveal deeper emotional truths. Letting intuition take precedence over deliberation, he approaches painting as a physical dialogue—a direct, embodied response to color and gesture.
Color, for Richardson, operates as an emotional geometry: a system of relationships that push and pull, harmonize and collide. He explores how certain hues can soothe while others energize, striving to create combinations that evoke a balanced emotional response—both calming and awakening.
At its core, Time Dissolves Here is about creating space—for stillness, for presence. It offers an invitation to pause and return to the essential elements of being.
An Inquiry into Seeing
Richardson’s long artistic inquiry spans decades, rooted in a dedication to the act of seeing and the material experience of paint. His paintings can be read through an optical lens or as part of a philosophical dialogue about abstraction and meaning. Acknowledging a lineage of twentieth-century abstraction, his work honors the automatism of the Surrealists while distilling form to its essentials—a nod to Minimalism.
He approaches his work with an adherence to materiality—repetition, rhythm, and touch—in keeping with his philosophy of what it means to make a painting today. The physicality of color and gesture remains at the center of his process.
A Meditative Approach
For Richardson, vertical strokes remain the purest visual form—resisting external association and inviting a state of contemplation. His ritualized approach to painting reflects both a disciplined awareness and a meditative sensitivity, informed in part by Buddhist philosophy: every mark bears significance, every gesture carries weight.
In Time Dissolves Here, these principles reach a luminous culmination. Each canvas becomes an open field where perception, emotion, and color are inseparable—and where time, indeed, seems to dissolve.
Recognition and Evolution
Richardson is represented by Richard Levy Gallery(Albuquerque), ClampArt (New York), Nüart Gallery (Santa Fe and Santa Monica), and Skot Foreman Gallery (San Miguel de Allende, Mexico).