Richard Allen May III
FALL 2020
Due to Covid-19 Social Distancing Measures, Richard May’s exhibition Multi-Lingual Voice Discoveries was postponed. In response, The Arts Area is providing access to our exhibitions through an online presence until we are able to reopen our gallery space in Ontario at CASA Pitzer.
EXHIBITION
Richard May’s body of work reveals being at the “mercy of the medium” where the artist relinquishes the desire to control the outcome by allowing the instinctual creative process to navigate toward the aesthetic destination- voice discovery using a variety of materials.
Through mixed media, printmaking, assemblage and collage, Richard May seeks to speak to his audience in a variety of languages. Whether the theme of the figurative works entails jazz, R & B music, love, comic book culture or abstraction, the goal is to have a conversation with viewers. The smallest works are 11”x 11” on wood and the largest works are 26” x 40” on canvas/or wood. Click on images to enlarge.
Captain Gentrification
Collage
Contradiction
Conversations
Curiosity
Driven To Manhood By My Two Fathers
Frankenstein Remix
Heroes
The Kiss (2)
The Kiss (1)
Jazz
The Trumpet Player
The Drummer
Panther
Passages of Rites (1)
Passage of Rites (2)
Passages of Rites (3)
R & B
INTERVIEW
The Arts Area invited visual artist and educator Richard May to be interviewed by our arts correspondent Matthew Peters. The conversation covers Richard May’s artwork, process, his inspiration, and his influences. The full-length interview, as well as video clips on selected topics, are available by clicking the links below.
Interview by Matthew Peters | Production and Editing by Sunny Song
"The Urgent Need To Train Writers To Effectively Explain Black Art," article by Richard Allen May III and Natasha Gural published in Black Art in America Vol 1, Issue 1, May 18, 2021.