Ricia Gordon's artist statement: “My paintings draw from the colors, lines, and forms in the world around me, from ongoing projects or ideas, or simply from what emerges in the process of putting down paint. I tend to establish, either consciously or unconsciously, a relationship between chance and intention, between limitation and freedom. I frequently work in series, exploring various approaches to address a particular form or idea. I sometimes glue paper or write lines from poems onto a canvas to create depth, texture, or rhythm. Recently, I’ve been drawn to include shapes such as circles, squiggles and squares, allowing for more play and humor. I like reminding myself these are just paintings on canvas, the drips and shapes serving not to represent, but to play against representation.”
Ricia Gordon
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Ricia Gordon worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…