Richard Penn

Richard Penn started working at DKW in 2010 on a series of monotypes. Using nature magazines and images captured by the Hubble Telescope as his references, he immersed himself in exploring the simultaneity of macroscopic and microscopic scale in his artworks. Looking at the of scale and distance on a single sheet of paper, Penn illustrated how within a single dot the representation of an atom could, in that simultaneous instant, also be a scaled section of the galaxy. Penn states, “We have easy access to images of deep space taken by numerous telescopes and cameras which depict objects spanning hundreds, thousands even millions of light years across and millions and even billions of light years distant.” Taking into consideration, the fact that the raw data is always received in black and white, Penn uses a real visual representation of the universe through the telescope. A huge distance is covered although it is only focused on a tiny piece of the sky. Penn has often worked with the notion of ‘origins’ in his work. He says, “Initially I worked with photographic imagery in which I examined certain gestures of my father which threw me back to my childhood and brought to the surface intimations and images of...

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