Chinatown, New York
Richard Estes
My Camera Is My Sketchbook
Schoelkopf"Richard is a living icon of American painting. While trends and movements come and go, Richard has stayed true to his vision and singular approach to painting for more than 50 years." —Damien Hirst This summer, Schoelkopf Gallery presents Richard Estes: My Camera Is My Sketchbook, offering a revealing look into the practice of one of the leading figures in photorealist art. The exhibition focuses on scenes from New York City and Maine, locations where Estes has lived, worked, and found inspiration for many years. Notably, this exhibition presents photographs by Estes as standalone artworks for the first time in the artist's career. Estes has taken photographs as reference material for decades, but in this exhibition, he presents photographs as artworks unto themselves for the first time. The Schoelkopf Gallery exhibition follows recent notable institutional presentations of Estes' work including Richard Estes: Urban Landscapes at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine (2021), Richard Estes: Voyages at the Newport Street Gallery in London (2021), and Richard Estes: Painting New York City at the Museum of Art and Design in New York (2015). The artist's work is currently on view in the acclaimed group exhibition Rivaling Reality: 60 Years of Photorealism at the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden, Germany through August 2.