Richard Dupont offers visitors a look inside his creative process at Carolina Nitsch Project Gallery (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
Carolina Nitsch Project Room
534 West 22nd St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves.
Through Saturday, June 25, free, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
212-645-2030
www.carolinanitsch.com
exhibition slideshow
Over the last several years, native New York artist Richard Dupont has displayed polyurethane versions of himself, which he calls “anti-self-portraits,” that challenge conventional perspective, changing as the viewer walks around them. If you were wondering what was inside his head to come up with such awe-inspiring statuary, which has been shown at Lever House, the FLAG Art Foundation, and Carolina Nitsch, among other venues, you can find out through Saturday in his second solo exhibition at the Carolina Nitsch Project Gallery in Chelsea. Once again experimenting with form, process, and material, Dupont has created a series of transparent resin heads filled with the detritus of his life, from found objects and garbage to items from his studio and empty beer cans, from photos and aluminum foil to candy wrappers and cords. Evoking thought and memory through seemingly random chaos, the colorful self-portrait busts are like individual time capsules; you’ll wonder what kind of stuff is in your own head as you wander around these unique sculptural representations of the human mind.