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“Wednesday” is an etching and aquatint printed on Arches Cover paper in an edition of 15. Published by Manneken Press.

“Wednesday” is one of a pair of large format etchings with aquatint that Richard Hull made in 2017. The print, and its companion “Tuesday”, both depict a figure viewing itself in a mirror, the funky and undulating frame of which has become part of the figure itself. The prints are densely drawn, textured with etched lines, cross hatching and dotted strokes, and tonally modulated with step-bitten aquatints.

Richard Hull is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute Chicago, where many of Chicago’s legendary Imagist painters showed and taught in the late-1970’s, and their influence on his work is clear. Hull’s current work takes the loose-limbed figuration of that era to a more romantic and painterly place where repetitive marks reverberate around abstract heads and bulbous hairstyles. Hull considers these figures to be inner mirrors, containers in which repetitive thinking and behaviors are visualized.

Richard Hull

Richard Hull is a Chicago-based artist whose work is influenced by the Imagist and Hairy Who movements. Hull has had over 40 one-person shows. His paintings are included in many private and public collections including, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; the Neuberger Museum of Art, Westchester NY and the Smithsonian, Washington DC.