Biography
D. Read Lockhart was born in Lake Bluff, IL. He is the son of David L. Lockhart, a photographer, woodworker, and designer, and the grandson of the late American wildlife painter, James Lockhart. After receiving a bachelor of arts degree in the classics from St. John's College in 2000, Read spent years traveling and living abroad. Then he choose to continue in the visual arts tradition of his father and grandfather before him. Read studied drawing and painting through a series of apprenticeships in Florence, Italy and New York. He completed the Masters of Fine Arts program at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2014. Currently, he lives and creates and teaches in Taos, New Mexico.
Artist Statement
Bustling kitchens with no emphasis on food, the end of a party without guests, a closet with no clothes to fill it - all are active metaphors for the way we relate. Full, yet empty. True connections become difficult. The images suggest comprehensibility, a suspense that radiates yet remains concealed; something nefarious? Underhanded? Criminal? Euphoric? Expansive? The work celebrates the rich tradition of narrative painting, reawakening iconic and nuanced devices from from the past, however, with a departure.
Within each scene, a collaboration between the figures is implied, though they fail to truly interact and relate. Utilizing a combination of visual strategies, these works aim to implicate the viewer in the story thereby completing the narrative. The body of work explores experience through a pictorial event and the psychology of theatricality. While the image suggests, the narrative constructs a divergence. The viewer discovers a world that is a familiar fiction; empty, yet full.
D. Read Lockhart was born in Lake Bluff, IL. He is the son of David L. Lockhart, a photographer, woodworker, and designer, and the grandson of the late American wildlife painter, James Lockhart. After receiving a bachelor of arts degree in the classics from St. John's College in 2000, Read spent years traveling and living abroad. Then he choose to continue in the visual arts tradition of his father and grandfather before him. Read studied drawing and painting through a series of apprenticeships in Florence, Italy and New York. He completed the Masters of Fine Arts program at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2014. Currently, he lives and creates and teaches in Taos, New Mexico.
Artist Statement
Bustling kitchens with no emphasis on food, the end of a party without guests, a closet with no clothes to fill it - all are active metaphors for the way we relate. Full, yet empty. True connections become difficult. The images suggest comprehensibility, a suspense that radiates yet remains concealed; something nefarious? Underhanded? Criminal? Euphoric? Expansive? The work celebrates the rich tradition of narrative painting, reawakening iconic and nuanced devices from from the past, however, with a departure.
Within each scene, a collaboration between the figures is implied, though they fail to truly interact and relate. Utilizing a combination of visual strategies, these works aim to implicate the viewer in the story thereby completing the narrative. The body of work explores experience through a pictorial event and the psychology of theatricality. While the image suggests, the narrative constructs a divergence. The viewer discovers a world that is a familiar fiction; empty, yet full.
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