Excerpts from Hope Palmer’s Reviews
​“Landscape Abstracted” and “Between Realism and the Abstract”
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Blazing down at the receiver from the walls at Berlin are the new abstracted landscapes of Richard Trumbull. It is hard to escape the jeweled passages of color of places where you have all traveled recently or in recaptured memory. The space presented in his window of the world is reductive. Usually we take the imaginative journey along roads and fields that direct and focus our attention on indistinct villages and towns in the distance, but what is at play here is not the exact interpolation of reality but the artist's manipulation of color and space and the ensuring energy of the artist's brush strokes. In these paintings with their viscosity of paint we see an on going dialog with abstraction. We are enveloped completely by the bravura handling of paint in a way that brings the mystery of creation to the forefront while we marvel at the manner of seduction so brash yet tender that his images induce. What is a new addition to our visual journey is the manner in which Trumbull obscures some of his passages with drips from the passing of his brush over known parts that give traditional meaning to landscapes. Unfettered falling lines of color mixed with layers of previous strokes create a rich melange of texture and color that skirt an immediate reading of a known place. The mystery of what is presented to the viewer intrigues us and captures our imagination and asks us to participate in his art. Because Trumbull's painting is just abstract enough, his vision is universally allying itself to no particular city or country. The canvases, windows to a luxurious world filled with compressed, saturated color and tactile surfaces, seduce us and open up our world to myriad, unknown interpretation. All we can ask of a painting is its subject matter, whether based in reality or an abstraction of such, invites us time and again to bask in a fleeting moment of wonder, lost in contemplation, only to return to our world invigorated by new relationships to known discourse.

Excerpt from Collector J. Kress' Review

“My first encounter with a painting by Richard Trumbull, an artist whom I had never met nor even heard of, was one of recognition. It had something of the feel of another artist whose work I equally admire:  Nicolas de Stael. Gradually, I became acquainted with more of Trumbull's creation and, again, the same reaction. Here there was a touch of Cezanne, there a hint of Monet. In several paintings, the paradoxically luminous use of the color black reminded me of Soulages. Others achieved the "glow-from-beneath" effect that one associates with Mark Rothko and Rufino Tamayo. Richard Trumbull demonstrates with skill and mastery, harmony, rigor and finesse that draws inspiration from the greats.”

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Upcoming Exhibitions

Currently showing at:
Aura Galerías Las Lomas, Mexico City
Aura Galerías Col. Juárez, Mexico City
Aura Galerías Los Cabos, Mexico
Zoho Gallery in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

Past Exhibitions

Aura Galerías Las Lomas - Mexico City, Group Exhibition 2025
Zoho Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico - Solo Exhibition 2025
Encinitas Council of the Arts Library - Encinitas, California - Solo Exhibition 2022
BFree Gallery - La Jolla, California - Group Exhibition 2022
Centro Cultural El Nigromante (Bella’s Artes) – San Miguel de Allende, Mexico – Solo Exhibition 2019
Rosewood Gallery – San Miguel de Allende, Mexico – Group Exhibition 2019
Berlin Bar & Bistro - San Miguel de Allende, Mexico – Solo Exhibition 2019
Artemis Gallery – Mexico City, Mexico – Group Exhibition 2018
Galeria Paralelo – San Miguel de Allende, Mexico – Solo Exhibition 2016
Ambos Gallery – Puerto Vallarta, Mexico – Solo Exhibition 2015
La Sirena Gallery – San Miguel de Allende, Mexico – Solo Exhibition 2015
Bordello Gallery – San Miguel de Allende, Mexico – Solo Exhibition 2014
San Diego Art Institute – San Diego, California – Group Exhibition 2011
San Diego Art Institute – San Diego, California – Group Exhibition 2010
Pergola Gallery – San Miguel de Allende, Mexico – Group Exhibition 2010
San Diego Art Institute – San Diego, California – Group Exhibition 2009
San Diego Art Institute – San Diego, California – Group Exhibition 2008
San Diego Art Institute – San Diego, California – Group Exhibition 2007
San Diego Art Institute – San Diego, California – Group Exhibition 2006
San Diego Art Institute – San Diego, California – Group Exhibition 2005
Warner’s Gallery – Warner Springs, California - Solo Exhibition 2005
San Diego Art Institute – San Diego, California – Group Exhibition 2005
East County Art Association – San Diego, California – Group Exhibition 2004
San Diego Portrait Society – San Diego, California – Group Exhibition 2004
San Diego Art Institute – San Diego, California – Group Exhibition 2004
Bohm Gallery – San Diego, California – Group Exhibition 2004
Robson Gallery – San Diego, California – Group Exhibition 2004
San Diego Portrait Society – San Diego, California – Group Exhibition 2003
San Diego Art Institute – San Diego, California – Group Exhibition 2003
San Diego Portrait Society – San Diego, California – Group Exhibition 2003
East County Art Association – San Diego, California – Group Exhibition 2003
San Diego Portrait Society – San Diego, California – Group Exhibition 2002
San Diego Art Institute – San Diego, California – Group Exhibition 2002
San Diego Museum of Art – San Diego, California – Group Exhibition 2001
San Diego Portrait Society – San Diego, California – Group Exhibition 2001