RICHARD ‘DICKIE’ LANDRY

Richard ‘Dickie’ Landry (b. 1938) is an artistic polymath. Landry’s practice encompassing music, photography, video, and painting. He was an original member of The Philip Glass Ensemble and has recorded and preformed with preeminent artists including Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, Paul Simon, and Laurie Anderson. In 1969, Landry moved to New York, forging close relationships with prominent figures in the downtown art scene including Richard Serra, Steve Reich, Joan Jonas, Keith Sonnier, Gordon Matta-Clark, and Lawrence Weiner. He commemorated these artists and the alternative art spaces they occupied, such as 112 Greene Street and FOOD in SoHo, in his black and white photographs. Landry also began making video works and exhibiting at Leo Castelli Gallery in the early 1970s. His early videos Line Drawings and Video Facets have been exhibited at 112 Greene Street in 1975 and MoMA PS1 in 2016. In the 1990s, Landry would shift is focus to paintings. Using the same outline as his works on paper from the 1970s, his compositions emphasize geometric form and color to create illusions of depth and space, acting as visual cognates to musical improvisation or variations on a theme.

Landry’s works are held in the collection of Buffalo AKG Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Imago Mundi Collection, MOCO Jacksonville, among others. His works have also been exhibited in various public institutions, including the San Francisco Museum of Art, Solomon Contemporary, New Orleans Museum of Art, and Hillard Art Museum.