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Clark Richert, (born 1941, Wichita, KS) is an American artist working primarily as a painter and digital printmaker. Known for his work based on complex patterns derived from the works along with paintings that merge significant arts institutions such as Black Mountain College and Drop City.

Education
BFA - University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 1963

MFA - University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 1972

Art
Through his large paintings, Clark Richert speculates about the nature of reality. He is inspired by Mark Rothko’s use of color and Buckminster Fuller’s theories regarding the structure of the universe. Richert writes “As an artist, I operate on a premise that I need not be bound by the scientist’s responsibility of proof; my responsibility is to freely interpret. That viewers fully understand all the subject matter in my work is not as important to me as their having a sense of the basic content: that these paintings are postulations about large things.”

Richert explores symmetry and quasi-crystal geometry in large paintings and prints. His group and solo exhibition history spans from the 1960's to the present day.

Initial member

Drop City
In 1965 Richert, along with Gene Bernofsky, JoAnn Bernofsky, and Richard Kallweit founded Drop City near Trinidad, CO.

Criss-Cross
Following their activity at Drop City, the artists returned to Boulder, CO and founded the artist cooperative in 1974 and published the art periodical Criss-Cross Art Communications from 1974 to 1980.

Spark Artist Cooperative Gallery
In 1979 Richert was one of the founders of the first artist cooperative gallery in Denver, Spark Gallery which is still in operation today.

Educator
Professor, Fine Arts Chair, Professor Emeritus, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design

Selected Exhibition History
Some More Beginnings: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), Brooklyn Museum, NY

Millennium Criss Cross Exhibition in New York

Flat Out at the Cornell DeWitt Gallery in Chelsea, NY

WEST OF CENTER, shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ

The Nature of Things, Biennial of the Americas 2010 exhibition

Clark Richert: 1960s to Present,  Philip J. Steele Gallery, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design

Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia, Walker Art Center, Cranbrook, Berkley Museum CA

Collections
Smithsonian Museum

Nelson-Atkins Museum

Wichita Art Museum

Denver Art Museum

Kirkland Museum,

Amoco

Container Corporation of America

Selected Media/Publications
Documentary film, Drop City

Under the Dome: Architectures of Networked Engagement from Drop City to Rockaway Beach, Rhizome.org

Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia