Richard Huntington, “Joe E Brown Calls the Lightning Down”, Collage, Archival Pigment Print and Oil on Paper Mounted on Board, 2010
Richard Huntington is a painter, printmaker, writer and art critic. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts at Syracuse University and his Master of Art and Humanities at the State University of New York located in Buffalo. Using his 
technical knowledge, Huntington works in a wide range of fields, including paintings, drawings, collages, print making, and computer generated graphics.
From 1982 to 1985, Huntington was the Visual Arts Director at Artpark, a public sculpture park in Lexington, New York. Under his directorship, the late video and installation artist Vito Acconci executed his first major public sculpture and the late Chris Burden created his “Bean Drop”, a performance piece in which seventy-one iron beams were dropped, over the course of a day, into a pool of fresh concrete. This kinetic form of abstract expressionism was recreated at Inhotim, Brazil, in 2008, after surviving only as documentation for twenty years.
Richard Huntington has had many residencies over his career, including Visiting Critic at Washington DC’s Kennedy Center for the Arts. He was also a contributing reviewer for publications, including ARTNews, Art New England, and High Performance Magazine. Huntington served as art critic for The Buffalo News from 2095 to 2007, where he wrote critical articles and reviews on regional and international exhibitions.
Huntington won the 2007Associated Press Award for Criticism for his review which challenged O’Keefe’s status in American art. He is the author of two novels: “An Art Critic Walks into a Bar” and a sequel with the same character, “7 Dead or Otherwise Forgotten Artists”. Huntington also authored a number of essays for art catalogues including “Storyboard: The Sexual Politics of Jackie Felix”, for the 2012 retrospective at Burchfield Penney Art Center; and “Duayne Hatchet: Form, Pattern, and Invention” for a 2009 retrospective at Burchfield Penney.
Bottom Insert Image: Richard Hunting, “Squares of Mine”, 1965, Acrylic on Canvas, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York