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Artist Statement:
Everyone experiences drawing
and painting as children. I
was perhaps one year old
therefore when I was first
initiated into the painter’s
craft. I continued these
universal beginnings
throughout my school years and
sporadic courses in college
(which gave me few insights
into this art). [...] I had
only myself as a teacher in
the art of painting.
My evolution as a painter
paralleled that of art history
in general, beginning with my
prehistoric period as a
one-year-old-clutcher-of-crayol
as, groping through Egyptian
and Greek periods; a
Renaissance period; and then
neo-classicism, romanticism
and naturalism; impressionism
and fauvism; cubism and
abstract expressionism.
At nineteen I went to Europe,
thirsty for scope and depth in
Art which America lacks.
Having established myself in
the south of France, I
absorbed the emanations of the
modern masters who had lived
and painted there. I was
profoundly moved by the
bizarre snow storm over La
Côte d’Azur on the night of
Picasso’s death. No such storm
had ever been seen before in
April, as old-timers in Nice
told me. [...]
Fully acknowledging my debt to
'abstract expressionism', I
nonetheless do not consider my
art 'abstract' – a word ...
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Artist Reviews:
"Theo Radic comes from
America, but has been living
many years in Sweden. I have
experienced him previously as
a genuine colorist, and I do
so now looking at his work
being shown at the newly
opened Gallery Baggen. He
works with mixed media.
Collage plays a big part.
The...
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Exhibitions for Theo Radic:
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ONE-MAN SHOWS
1975 Galleri Grafikhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
1976 Galerie Robert Hervieu, Malmö
1977 Galleri Öster, Landskrona
Galleri Carneol, Gothenburg
1978 Galleri Futura, Stockholm
1979 Galleri Futura, Stockholm
1981 Galleri Futura, Stockholm (Visual Fugues)
1982 Galerie Seiler, Stuttgart, Germany
Galleri Olga, Stockholm
Galleri Together, Stockholm
1983 Galleri Sassi, Stockholm
1985 Galerie MB, Stockholm
Galerie La Sensitive, Paris
1986 Galleri 17, Stockholm
1987 San Bernardino Cultural Center, California
(twenty-year retrospective)
1988 Galerie MB, Stockholm (Ocean Diary)
1990 Galleri Överkikaren, Stockholm
1993 Galleri Överkikaren, Stockholm (Collage)
1994 Guernica Gallery, Santa Barbara,(Yucca in Bloom)
Feldheym Gallery, San Bernardino, California
1996 Galleri Baggen, Stockholm (Homage to Byron)
1999 Väsby Art Hall, Stockholm (thirty-year retrospective)
2000 Galleri Baggen, Stockholm
GROUP SHOWS
1975 Károlyi Foundation for Artists Vence, France
1976 Galerie Remarque, Trans-en-Provence, France
1978 Galerie Remarque, Trans-en-Provence, France
1979 Spring Salon, Liljevalchs Art Hall, Stockholm
1982 Amerika Haus, Munich Germany
1989 Santa Barbara Arts Festival, Santa Barbara
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