(b. 1951)
With a B.F.A. from Buffalo State in 1975 under his belt, Richard Seehausen was a regular at Hallwalls and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s Western New York exhibitions during the mid-to-late 1970s, before moving to Brooklyn in 1981 with the support of a Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS) grant funded by the New York State Council on the Arts. He now lives in the Catskills with his wife and daughter. His figurative art converts snapshot style imagery of ordinary middle class life to a grand scale, adding pop-art, illustrative coloration and brushwork. It also suggests the work of artists he admires, including Francis Bacon and German Expressionists. His art has been shown in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago with colleagues associated with “the Pictures Generation” such as Robert Longo, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, David Salle, and others. Nina Freudenheim has shown his work in Buffalo.