
Richard Stine
Paul Rivas Gallery
Strongly colored fantasies on themes relating to the state of nature in drawings, gouaches and oils. Nude figures gambol about in a child-like landscape, defying gravity and enjoying themselves immoderately. The modest, well designed gouaches have a considerable charm. Here too the drawing seems more confident and less primitive than in the more ambitious oil paintings. At their best, the gouaches have a strength of design that reminds one of Lanskoy and Boudin. Voodoo Surrender, Nude with Sock and Purple Nude are oils that attempt the same synthesis. Stine does not seem to be as comfortable with the scale of his larger efforts and therefore they lack the visual logic and unity of his smaller works.
