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ArtBy<strong>Design</strong><br />
Richard is an<br />
eternal student. He is<br />
very interested in ancient<br />
cultures, religion, ancient<br />
science... and then he brings<br />
it to the present. You will see<br />
symbols that deal with science,<br />
math and philosophy in<br />
his pieces. Many times people<br />
don’t recognize these symbols,<br />
but they will if they work in a<br />
field relating to engineering<br />
For an artist seeking<br />
inspiration, Sudden offers this<br />
advice. “I would say the ultimate<br />
thing to do is to travel,<br />
be really influenced by it, and<br />
come back and make art that<br />
you can sell to go on another<br />
trip. So you are always on a<br />
cycle that is guided by inspiration.”<br />
The trip to Tibet is what inspired<br />
him to take his art seriously<br />
and he acknowledges<br />
that it kicked him up to another<br />
place. “After Tibet, I did<br />
60 pieces and that put me into<br />
some really good galleries in<br />
Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta. This set me<br />
off on staying with it as a career. Before Tibet,<br />
I was random with producing pieces of work,<br />
but now I have a lot of art sitting around.” As<br />
an artist, Sudden explains, you are compelled<br />
to make art and he acknowledges that it is nice<br />
to put all the art up and see it displayed, that it<br />
gives it a different perspective when placed on<br />
a gallery wall for a showing.<br />
He also does sculpture. The Wreath Maker,<br />
one of his more renowned shows was in The<br />
White Space in Atlanta. “I kept this big canvas<br />
as a calendar, and it started in <strong>March</strong> of 2003<br />
“<br />
or science.<br />
~Mitzi Prochnow,<br />
gallery owner<br />
“<br />
with the invasion of Iraq and so every time<br />
there was a casualty, I would make a mark on<br />
the canvas and then would make a plaster funerary<br />
wreath. When I did the show in 2005,<br />
the casualty count was already up to around<br />
3000, so the room was filled with white wreaths<br />
stacked around the room, a table and molds and<br />
everything necessary for creating more wreaths<br />
on-site. There was the question: ‘Was this to<br />
honor those who had fallen or was it anti-war?’<br />
and to me this was entirely ambiguous. I would<br />
like the viewer to decide. I saw it as honoring<br />
the fallen. It was a powerful message and gave<br />
people a perspective on the casualties of war. I<br />
was so moved by this vision, I started to move<br />
away from my paintings and started doing just<br />
these installations.”<br />
The artist has evolved from the days of doing<br />
his street art, with the alias Oliver Sudden<br />
(like ‘all of a sudden) and did “art attacks” in<br />
New York and Paris before moving to Atlanta<br />
to build a studio.<br />
While Sudden has lived in Atlanta for many<br />
years, he now lives a more secluded life outside<br />
the city near Carrolton. All the new work<br />
started happening when he changed location.<br />
He says he is “Coming back to my two dimensional<br />
work and I’m really turned on by that.<br />
I’m having fun again making this art.”<br />
DB Written by Kim Jackson<br />
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MAR/APR <strong>2015</strong> • DESIGN&BUILD MAGAZINE
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