RICO WHITE

Biography

Richard ‘Rico’ White is a Cheltenham born, London based contemporary figurative artist and illustrator.

After studying Illustration at Brighton, and later Portraiture in Florence, Italy, he found a happy medium somewhere in between; creating scenes that appear as fragments of a narrative. Exploring themes of the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it-moments of human interactions, micro-expressions and concealed emotions – viewers are offered a freeze-frame of storyline. 
  Blurring lines of complete and incomplete he mixes highly detailed imagery with stark negative space to effect, the viewer is invited to fill in the gaps.




​Press

Booooooom - Feature Feb 2012
Modern Met - Feature Feb 2012
Neo Collective - Interview May 2012 
Booooooom - Feature June 2013
Supersonic Art - Feature July 2013
Empty Kingdom - Feature October 2013

Exhibitions

Affordable Art Fair - Priory Gallery, London 2009
Summer Group Show - Stolen Space Gallery, London 2010 
‘Never Judge a Book’ - Penguin Books x Stolen Space Gallery, London 2010
Solo Exhibition - Print House Gallery, London 2011
‘Archetypes’ - The View Gallery, Bristol 2011
Summer Group Show - Stolen Space Gallery, London 2011
'The White Family Show’ - Montpellier Gallery, Cheltenham 2013
‘Utopia’ - The Unit, London 2013
‘Seven Deadly Sins’ - The Unit, London 2014
​‘Paintguide’ – The Unit, London 2015
Affordable Art Fair - Art*, London 2016
'Fragment' - Solo Exhibition, Spring 2018

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​Portrait by peter-carter.com