{"id":1071,"date":"2016-09-11T23:34:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T23:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/?post_type=project&#038;p=1071"},"modified":"2017-01-25T05:23:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T05:23:07","slug":"about-richard-gessner","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/?project=about-richard-gessner","title":{"rendered":"About Richard Gessner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;Row&#8221; make_fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; use_custom_width=&#8221;off&#8221; width_unit=&#8221;on&#8221; use_custom_gutter=&#8221;off&#8221; allow_player_pause=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;off&#8221; make_equal=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_1=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method_1=&#8221;off&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Text&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; use_border_color=&#8221;off&#8221; border_color=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1008\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/rgess.jpg\" alt=\"picture of Richard\" width=\"400\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/rgess.jpg 400w, https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/rgess-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><br \/>\nRichard Gessner&#8217;s Bio<br \/>\nOlder than the firstborn Horseshoe Crab,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Gessner is a hermit living in Montclair, New Jersey<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>His paintings are playful, erotic, ludic.<br \/>\nGessner&#8217;s multifarious writings are iconoclastic<br \/>\nvisionary sardonic travelogues. His writings are rife<br \/>\nwith misanthropic humor and lunatic logic.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>I am a Montclair\u00a0, NJ artist who walks&#8230;a terrestrial animal. How often is it that someone is walking up a main street during an april snow shower and gets approached by a girl reporter who photographs and interviews them, then publishing their picture<br \/>\non the front page of a major New Jersey newspaper?<br \/>\nNOT OFTEN!\u00a0 a rare, bizarre chance occurance.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Gessner&#8217;s work is published in: 580 Split, Air fish, Rampike, Another Chicago Magazine, Happy, Raw Vision, The Pannus Index, Coe Review, Ice river, Furious Fictions, The Act, and many other magazines.<br \/>\nHis &#8220;Excerpts from the Diary of a Neanderthal Dilettante&#8221; and &#8220;The man in the couch&#8221; was published by Bomb Shelter Props 1991<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1030 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/school_review.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"732\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/school_review.jpg 732w, https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/school_review-300x113.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-956\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gessner-resume-2-1024x578.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gessner-resume-2-1024x578.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gessner-resume-2-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gessner-resume-2-768x434.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gessner-resume-2.jpeg 1073w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-955\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gessner-resume-1-752x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"752\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gessner-resume-1-752x1024.jpeg 752w, https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gessner-resume-1-220x300.jpeg 220w, https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gessner-resume-1-768x1046.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gessner-resume-1.jpeg 1073w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 752px) 100vw, 752px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1028 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/richard-at-crybaby-2.jpg\" alt=\"Richard at Cry Baby Gallery\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/richard-at-crybaby-2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/richard-at-crybaby-2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Richard at opening of show at Cry Baby Gallery in Asbury Park<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1027 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/richard-at-crybaby-1.jpg\" alt=\"Richard at Cry baby Gallery\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/richard-at-crybaby-1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/richard-at-crybaby-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Richard at opening of show at Cry Baby Gallery in Asbury Park<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1017\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/richard_drawing-4.jpg\" alt=\"Richard at work\" width=\"724\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/richard_drawing-4.jpg 724w, https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/richard_drawing-4-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1016\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/richard_drawing-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"728\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/richard_drawing-3.jpg 728w, https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/richard_drawing-3-300x241.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1015\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/richard_drawing-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/richard_drawing-2.jpg 580w, https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/richard_drawing-2-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1014\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/richard_drawing-1.jpg\" alt=\"Richard working\" width=\"498\" height=\"652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/richard_drawing-1.jpg 498w, https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/richard_drawing-1-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1012\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/richard_costume.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/richard_costume.jpg 542w, https:\/\/archive.hamiltonstreetgallery.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/richard_costume-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" 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