Ned Richardson aka E.P.Richardson Born 1959, Boston MA, US Now residing Vermont, US BA in Creative Writing Residential College, University of Michigan circa 1982. Self taught: open source (image magick) and photoshop digital image creation/manipulation, digital music basics, web basics, some shell scripting. Early background in stage carpentry and lighting led to a strong connection with Samuel Beckett who is an ongoing influence and informs the name lightblack - a platform originally built for video and film co-productions with the late Michael H. Shamberg, as well as these individual art/efforts. Influences too numerous to mention, but near the foundation are Beckett, Chris Marker, George Harriman (Krazy Kat) to which I will add, provisionally, cellular automata. Abstract, representational, text, object, conceptual (with object). I am drawn to the intersections of things, particularly where one system of understanding or interpretation fails, and another hasn't yet taken hold, or doesn't exist. Exhibited MPG Contemporary, Boston; Turtle; an anarchic salon, Chelsea Space, London, and elsewhere across Europe and the UK; Galerie Arnaud LeFebvre, Paris. Member of the Front co-operative gallery, Montpelier, VT since June 2018. Published Alternative Press, Ann Arbor, MI
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