Early in the summer of 2002, Esopus approached Tuttle with a composition book from the ‘40s found in a Maryland thrift shop, in which a schoolgirl had diligently copied a series of short works by well-known poets on each right-hand page. The artist decided to write an appreciation of Wallace Berman—an enormous influence on his work and artistic outlook—on the blank left-hand pages. The resultant “conversation” became the artwork—a playful and provocative addition to Tuttle’s oeuvre.
CONTENTS +
Artist’s Project: Richard Tuttle
Richard Tuttle’s first solo exhibition was at New York’s Betty Parsons Gallery in 1965. Over the following years, his work has been featured in one-person exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and countless other galleries and museums in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He is a recipient of the Art Institute of Chicago Biennial Prize for the 74th American Exhibition, a Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, and an Aachen Art Prize.