A heavy irony hangs over Michael Richards’s work: The artist known for images of pilots, airplanes, wings and targets died, age 38, in the Sept. 11 attacks.
He had spent the night in his studio on the 92nd floor of the World Trade Center’s north tower.
But it’s likely that, had he lived, we would still be discussing Richards’s sculpture.
In his handful of active years, he was beloved by curators and peers, and found consistent institutional support.
Dread Scott, an artist and friend of Richards’s, recalled their conversations ranging over “W.E.B.
Persons:
Michael Richards’s, Nari, Kerry James Marshall, Dread Scott, Richards’s, Du Bois, Wu Tang Clan, Richards, Rodney King
Organizations:
Trade, Bronx Museum, Arts, Jan
Locations:
Nari Ward, Brazil