Richard Wetzel

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Richard Wetzel, Ana Kai Tangata, 1985, oil and varnish on canvas, 70 x 38 inches.
Photo: Robert Chase Heishman

Richard Wetzel, Flesh and Blood, 1985, oil and varnish on canvas, 72 x 44 inches.
Photo: Robert Chase Heishman.

Richard Wetzel, Some Must Watch, 1985, oil and varnish on canvas, 56 x 42 inches. Photo: Robert Chase Heishman

Richard Wetzel, Omen, 1973, acrylic and image transfer on plexiglass with artist frame, 41 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 3/4 inches.

Richard Wetzel, Victory Garden, 1973, acrylic and image transfer on plexiglass with artist frame, 37 1/2 x 27 1/2 x 3/4 inches.

Richard Wetzel, Object 90 inches long, 2004-2007, mixed materials, 7 x 6 inches.

Richard Wetzel, Object 88 inches long, 2004-2007, mixed materials, 9 x 13 x 88 inches.

Richard Wetzel, Object 65 inches long, 2004-2007, mixed materials, 4 x 16 x 65 inches.

Richard Wetzel, Object 23 inches long, 2014-2020, mixed materials, 6 x 12 x 23 inches.

Richard Wetzel, Object 16 inches long, 2000-2004, mixed materials, 2 1/2 x 3 x 16 inches.

Richard Wetzel, Object 33 inches long, 2014-2020, mixed materials, 8 x 8 x 33 inches.

Richard Wetzel, Night Passage, acrylic and image transfer on plexiglass (center panel);

oil on masonite (flanking panels); with artist frame, 16 1/4 x 38 x 1 3/4 inches.

Richard Wetzel, Untitled (Von Hardenberg's Garden 11), 1974 - 1975, graphite on paper, 22 x 17 inches.

Richard Wetzel, Untitled (Von Hardenberg's Garden 12), 1974 - 1975, graphite on paper, 22 x 17 inches.

Richard Wetzel, Untitled (Von Hardenberg's Garden 14), 1974 - 1975, graphite on paper, 22 x 17 inches.

Richard Wetzel, Targets, 1968, photo etching on paper, 13 1/4 x 12 inches; 23 1/2 x 22 inches, framed.

Richard Wetzel, Object 21 inches long, c. 1990, mixed materials, 21 x 6 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches.

Richard Wetzel, Requiem, 1972, acrylic and image transfer on plexiglass with artist frame, 13 1/4 x 44 x 1 3/4 inches.

Richard Wetzel (b. 1943) is an artist based in Chicago who has worked in collage, printmaking, painting, and, since the 1980s, sculpture.  At age 19, Wetzel opened the Sedgewick Street Gallery in the city's Old Town neighborhood, where he gave debut solo exhibitions to future Imagists Karl Wirsum and Ed Paschke, as well as many other artists.  Wetzel participated in the Non-Plussed Some shows at the Hyde Park Art Center in 1968 and 1969, alongside Paschke, Ed Flood, and Sarah Canright, and his Imagist-associated work has been included in several retrospective exhibitions.  As a sculptor, Wetzel has been constructing hybrid objects made of diverse materials – wood, bone, antler – often combined in ways that blur their origins.

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