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Artists Resume Beverly M. Richey (last updated 2012)
BEVERLY M. RICHEY
8675 North Point Drive
Milwaukee, WI
414 247-0741
bevrichey@gmail.com
Shows/Events /Collaborations
“WINTERESTING/HOLIDAY HAPPENING” Arts Collective of Gays Mills, WI 2012
“DADDIST INVASION OF WEST HAVEN REUNION EVENT” West Haven, CT 2010
“THE SURVEILLANCE SERIES” Group Show August 2007 exploring The PATRIOT
ACT and it’s effect on American’s civil liberties. Jonathan Shorr Gallery, NYC. July
–August ’07. Indoor/outdoor and flat screen viewing.
“COLORFIELD/REDEFINED” The Human Nature Series;Three minute digitally altered
video abstracting moving imagery related to the color field artists. Projected indoors,
outdoors and on a flat screen monitor. July 2007 (on going) The Jonathan Shorr Gallery.
Crosby Street, NYC.
“GREAT/LAKE/APPEAL” The Human Nature Series The on going gallery projection
and monitor viewing
“DETAINEE” collaboration with David Duckworth, a week long performance project at
the Lab gallery on Lexington and 49th Street. An interactive performance featuring digital
projections. Works used and created from that performance. 2007
‘TORTURE/TRIPTYCH”, “TORTURE/ISLAND”, “SENSELESS”,
TOURTURE/TEXT” Jan 29-February 2007
“SEVEN/ELEVEN” a collaborative event hosting an election evening art event including
artists John Landino, David Duckworth and others.
“TORTURE/TRIPTYCH” projection as part of a one time gallery event
“REFLECTION/PROJECTION” July 15, 2007 an indoor and outdoor projection working
in collaboration with John Landino, David Duckworth and others.
“DIGITAL DECORATING” projecting by Jonathan Shorr, through a glass window
creating a double image.
“TWIST AND SHOUT” experimental projecting by Jonathan Shorr; indoor/outdoor
projection focused on creating a sculptural effect projecting onto people inside and
outside the gallery
“Popping Pixels”, national juried show New Haven CT 2005 (still available on line)
“Jew-SEE-Fruit” (commission Beth Israel Center), Madison, WI January, 2001
“The Pink Sea”Pro Choice Rally, (commission Planned Parenthood, private donors)
Hartford CT, State Capital.
“Let them eat GLACIER”, edible work and interactive quiz, commission for Creative
Arts Workshop
“The Amazing Bureaucratic Birthday Cake” New Haven’s 350th Celebration,
(commission City of New Haven). 1989
“The Profedible HART” Women in the Arts Exhibition, (juried by Lucy Lippard) Erector
Square Gallery, New Haven, CT 1989 (Polaroid images from the event, PC: John Landino)
“The Tri-Edible” cake in three places at once supported by the Arts Council of Greater
New Haven.
“Waste ‘M Brace”, Solo Show, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT 1987
“Underground Breaking” Audubon Arts Center, New Haven, CT 1986
“Buy and Sell” PMVI three-person show with Paul Rutkovsky and Jack Harriett. The
John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT, 1984
Performances/Installations/Public Actions
“FACETIME imake icontact” a two-month-long performance work committed to taking time to provide conversation and eye contact with visitors @ Gays Mills Arts Collective 2012
“RECALLISM” A virtual local/regional/national and international social intervention addressing the political uprising in Wisconsin 2011-2012
“Howard Aiken/A Tribute”, EAGLE School, Madison, WI 2003
“Telling the Truth/Tribute to Bitsie Clark” Audubon Arts Center, New Haven. 2002
“The Pink Sea”Pro-Choice Rally, (commission Planned Parenthood, private donors)
Hartford CT, State Capital.
“Passion Show” a collaborative project commissioned by WTNH, New Haven, CT
“Packaged Plastic” Building Building Wrap on State Street. A John Landino production;
New Haven, CT 1986
“Transformer” Connecticut Lawyers for the Arts Conference, New Haven, CT 1986
“Locate Local” Edible installation, developing a relation a relationship between the
University and the New Haven Community. Yale University, New Haven, CT 1986
“Art and Technology Symposium” an edible work exploring photocopy technology.
Connecticut College, New London, CT 1986
“The Changing Face of Liberty”, is an edible work exploring women’s relationship with money.
Women’s Caucus for Art, City College, NYC 1986
“The Profedible Hart” is an interactive work involving individual participants to make a
choice between love and money and be seen eating it. A theatre production or Amy
Seham’s; Edible Performance/Installation, Black Box, Educational Center for The Arts,
1986
“PAID CAKE” The Building-Wrap, A John Landino production; Gateway Center, New
Haven CT 1985
“Eat Mummy” The Dead Show, Director Jeff Burnett, Educational Center For the Arts,
New Haven, CT 1985
“Tri-Edible” City Wide Studio Tour, Sponsored by the Arts Council of Greater New
Haven CT 1985
“Find Sold Out”, A “streetwork” addressing consumerism in conjuction with Artist’s
Working in New Haven. New Haven, CT 1984
“Touch The Blue” A “street work” addressing the relationship between Yale University
and the city of New Haven. CT. 1984
“Eat Audubon Street” Arts Council Awards Ceremony, Long Wharf 1984
“Famous Cookie” A work addressing National verses Local Artists. Park of the Arts,
Sponsored by Arts Council of Greater New Haven, CT,(public performance) 1983
“TRIDENT” Let them Eat Cake Series serving free cake to passers by. streetwork, New
Haven, CT 1983
Group Shows
“Holiday Happening” Gays Mills Arts Collective, Gays Mills , WI 2012
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee juried exhibition, Milwaukee, WI 2010
“Women’s Caucus For Art Show” UConn at Waterbury, CT 1983
“Spring Cleaning Women’s Caucus for Art Show” New Haven, CT 1983
“Graphite Works on Paper” PMVI Exhibition, New Haven, CT 1981
Experimental Digital Projects:
“The Vulnerability Project” a two year long daily commitment to send online, words, images and short videos. with artists John Landino and Tim Feresten.
“Mundanity and Chaos”, an awareness and irregular communication project. 2003-2004
“TypingMyTruth”, An unedited text project, typing three thousand words a day.
“AvirtualNonproductiveCollaboration” 2003-2006
“A HUNDRED HOURS” of volunteer time, community service (EAGLE SCHOOL/Madison, Wi. 2003-2004
“S.A.R.A.H” sending digital photos through email on a regular schedule. 2001-2002
Personal Projects:
“The Aging Project”, examing the aging process through caring for and preparing my
mother for her death 1996-1999.
“Mother-Wife-DaughterHood” paying attention, Gays Mills, WI 1996-1999
“Daily Trash” observing trash output, Gays Mills, WI 1993-1996
“Big Time” Exploring time through inactivity and silence in an isolated rural
environment. Gays Mills, WI1993-1996
“Not All Time is Equal” Exploring time in small increments with the use of an
electronic timer. 1992-1997
“Becoming Nobody” Exploring not being in the public eye, entering the mundanity and
isolation of domestic life. 1993-1995
“Heats and Souls” observing the development of my young children through still images
and video and witnessing their individual differences in a uninterrupted and isolated
natural environment. 1993-1995
“Dis-membered Family” cutting up family photos and reassembling them. 1990-1994
New Haven Ct,-Highland WI.
Education/Enrichment
University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee Art History Department graduate studies 2008-2010
Miad Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, a week long intensive program, in digital
and sculptural integration, graduate credit Marquette University 2007
University of Connecticut Bachlor’s degree in Psycholoy 2007
Conference on “Contemporary Issues in Jewish Art” University of Wisconsin Madison
Art History 101, and 102 college credit University of Wisconsin, Madison 2005-6
Dark Room Photography, college credit class Madison 2007
Painting, Drawing and Digital Video, 3 non credited classes Madison Wis 2000-1
Drawing college level drawing class Southern Connecticut State University 1978
Color and Design college level design Intro, class Broward Community College 1977
Leadership Greater New Haven 1986-1987
Art Apprenticeship at Papier Mache Video Institute with Paul Rutkovsky1977-1982
Leadership in the Arts
Founding member of Gays Mills Arts Collective 2012
Co Founder and Co Director of Women in the Arts. 1984-1990
Communications Director for the Arts Council of Greater New Haven 1984-1989
Board Member of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven.
Founder of the “Small Space Gallery” a non juried gallery available to artist members
funded by the Arts Council of Greater New Haven 1986
Artist’s Apprentice for Paul Rutkovsky (Professor of Art FSU) 1978-1983
Co-Director with Paul Rutkovsky , founder of Papier Mache Video Institute (P.M.V.I.)
1984-1989
PMVI Productions
“Phassion” Arts of March, W.T. Grants Building New Haven, Ct 03/85 1985
“First Show of 1984” Hamilton Clockworks Building, New Haven, CT 1983
“Group Show of Things that Don’t Go Together” Hamilton Clockworks Building, New
Haven, CT 1982
Articles
“The National Let Them Eat Cake Sale” New Haven Advocate, 1983
“Art Exhibit Studies Roots of Feminism” New Haven Journal Courier, May 12, 1983
“Artists Ban Together for Survival” Art New England, 1983
“Artists Interpret 1984” New Haven Journal Courier, Nov 4, 1983
“1984” New Haven Advocate, Nov 23, 1983
“Buy and Sell” New York Times, CT Section Jan. 8, 1983
“Shoppers War is focus of City Art Exhibit” New Haven Journal Courier Jan, 20, 1984
“At the Ely: Three Architects and a Caustic Commentary” Record Journal, Meriden CT
Jan 14, 1984
“Buy and Sell”Art New England, 1984
“Creative PR” New Haven Advocate, 1984
“Artist turns stored ideas into Parcel of Paintings” New Haven Register, Jan 22, 1985
“Spring Cleaning” Women’s Caucus for Art Show, New Haven, CT May 1983
“Artist’s Waste Worth the Haste” New Haven Independent, February 19, 1987
“Pick through Ely House Trash” New Haven Register, February 17, 1987
“Artist Uses Waste In a Creative Way” UConn Daily Campus, Storrs, CT 1987
“Local Artist Shows Junk in Gallery” Yale Daily News, New Haven, Feb 17, 1987
“Through a Women’s Eyes” The Hartford Courant, March 4 1988
“No ‘Just’ Desserts on this Birthday Cake” New Haven Register, June 6, 1988
“Cake By Committee”, New Haven Register, June 1998
“The Amazing Birthday Cake” New Haven Arts, Arts Council, June 1998
“Amazing Bureaucratic Cake Served in New Haven” The State of the Arts, Connecticut
Commission for the Arts, June 1988.
Other Media Coverage
USA today, listing for “Amazing Bureaucratic Birthday Cake”
NBC coverage/ Forrest Sawyer “The Pink Sea”
CT Public Radio/ Faith Middleton “Amazing Bureaucratic Birthday Cake”
Bev Richey/Artist Bio
My undergraduate degree in psychology is from the University of Connecticut and in 2008 I began advanced studies in art history at UW-Milwaukee. From 1978 to 1994, I had an active public art career in the New Haven, Ct area.
A 1995 move to a rural Wisconsin farm town, from this east coast urban center within commuting distance to NYC, allowed me to rest and recuperate.
My early art life included many socially conscious and feminist site-specific performances, installations, exhibitions, and social engagement projects. I worked as an arts administrator, an arts organizer, and an artist. While creating in various transient media and later influenced by Judy Chicago I became best known for working in the feminist medium of cake.
In 2020 ARTSPACE a contemporary gallery in New Haven, Ct included a retrospective exhibit of one of my large-scale works (1988) called “The Amazing Bureaucratic Birthday Cake” serving the people in a group exhibition titled “Who Governs?” That same year The New Haven Museum included another early project of mine in an exhibition titled “Factory”. This work was a group exhibition I organized titled the “First Show of 1984” based on George Orwell’s novel.
“Later, experimental artist Beverly Richey took over PMVI and developed groundbreaking work in feminist art and the subject of food as a political statement. She was the driving force behind PMVI's legendary one-day “1984” exhibition in the former factory, which had crowds of visitors lined up around the block.” NHM
"PMVI- The Papier Mache Video Institute, New Haven’s premier DIY avant-garde artists collective that hosted the legendary “1984” exhibition, the largest Elm City underground art show in the 1980s." The New Haven Museum 2020
Relocating from a populated urban area to a rural Wisconsin town (in the Driftless Region) of under one hundred residents, resulted in developing an intimate relationship with natural time and space. This led to a deep interest in nature’s impact on the human experience. Now after several decade-long investigations into these insights, my work identifies as the “Human/Nature/Series”. These interests in psychology and the natural world gave birth to my current creative process and project.
In 2015 I added a “painting” practice to my studio life. Shortly after that, I introduced the “FIRST HUNDRED PAINTING SERIES” 2015-2022 In this project, I committed in advance to painting a hundred paintings as a way of trying something new. I recently completed #50 of the series. These paintings range in size but average around 3x4FT. They are organic abstract forms done in a wide range of colors. They reflect a variety of psychological concepts including Carl Jung's theory of missing psychological parts to contemporary ideas about brain plasticity.
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