Richard Stipl (Checoslovaquia en 1968-)

Choir 2005
Pigmented wax, oil paint, and metal brackets
5" x 24" x 7"


Bloc Sabbath 2005
Pigmented wax, resin, oil paint, found objects and metal
19.5" x 7.5" x 6"

Richard Stipl was born in Czechoslovakia in 1968 and was raised, educated, and now lives and works both in Canada and the Czech Republic. He graduated from the Ontario College of Art in Toronto with an Honours Diploma in 1992, and was awarded Canada’s prestigious Governor General’s Award in the same year.

Working initially as a painter, Stipl has recently turned to making sculpture. Using himself as a model, Richard focuses exhaustively on the indefinite nature and moment-to-moment paradoxes inherent in the act of continuously recreating oneself throughout the course of a lifetime. Characteristically, Stipl’s paintings and sculptural works alike force us to reconsider the role of boundaries and consequent categories of choice that comprise contemporary attitudes and approaches to art-making and art-consumption.