Richard H. Dawson’s work explores the relationship between classical archetypes and the profane. With influences as diverse as Greg Sage, Tex Avery, Victor Hugo and Chagall, new synergies are distilled from both mundane and transcendent layers.

Mr. Dawson was a rebellious punk rocker and self-taught artist who was fascinated by the unrelenting divergence of the human condition. What starts out as yearning soon becomes debased into a hegemony of temptation and a spiraling carnival of defeat, leaving only a sense of nihilism and dread regarding the corroded inevitability of a new order.

As spatial forms become transformed through diligent and critical practice, the viewer is left with an insight into the darkness of our future and an epitaph for the outposts of our existence.

Statement inspired by Arty Bollocks.

Sunday, November 8, 2015



Work #21 
14.5" x 19.5"







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Work #20 
11" x 17" 







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Work #19 
13" x 19" 







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Work #18 
13" x 17.5" 







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Work #17 
16.5" x 23.5" 






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Work #16 
20" x 17" 







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Tuesday, October 20, 2015



Work #15 
8" x 18" 






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Work #14 
15" x 11" 







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Work #13 
12" x 16" 






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Work #12
12" x 16" 







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Work #11 
14" x 11" 







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Work #10
14" x 11" 






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Work #9 
12" x 10" 








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Work #8 
12.5" x 9.5" 







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Work #7 
10" x 6" 







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Work #6 
15" x 11" 





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Work #5 
6" x 10" 





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Work #4 
6" x 8" 






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Wednesday, October 7, 2015



Work #3 
13" x 20" 






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Work #2 
20" x 16" 





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Tuesday, October 6, 2015

THE RHD COLLECTION



 Work #1
11.5" x 19.25" 





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THE RHD COLLECTION 

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Celebrating the art of my father, 
Richard H. Dawson, 1948-2001. 

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10.06.2015 

Today marks the beginning of a journey in finally documenting the collection 
of original artwork created by my father, Richard H. Dawson, that 
became mine when he suddenly passed away in 2001. 

My father's artistic endeavors spanned his entire lifetime --- from playing bass guitar 
in a punk rock band in his youth, to recreating the works of Masters in an effort 
to improve his own self taught painting skills, and later in his life even embracing 
new technologies in learning how to create digital art -- my father's path was unique unto him and his perspectives can be seen in the wide swath of work he left behind. 

Here, over time, as they are documented one by one, you will see work that ranges from simplistic and colorful abstracts, to imaginations of a sci-fi space age utopia, his deeply dark representations of what he imaged hell to be, and graceful renditions of beautiful women. 

Richard Dawson worked with oils, acrylics, pastels, pen, ink, digital images 
and he worked on any surface he could find.