Catalyst Contemporary

Richard Givens was inspired by the Op Art, Pop Art, and psychedelic movements at the end of the 1960s. An untrained artist, he worked as a mechanical draftsman in Baltimore. In his lunch breaks he made small format optical and geometric pencil drawings- hundreds of them for years. Color explosive work like that of inspired Givens to add color to his drawings. So starting in the mid 1970s, he painted almost 200 different works. An underserved artist, he couldn’t find representation in Baltimore and so by the turn of the following decade, stopped painting. Here we are over 40 years later with an explosion of interest in his work and validation

Here we go with and Booth C07 Opening VIP today and then all week through Sunday, 11am-8pm. On the sand at with and