MISAKO & ROSEN is pleased to announce the debut exhibition in Japan of New York based artist Richard Aldrich. Born in Hampton, Virginia in 1975 and educated at Ohio State University, Columbus, Aldrich has exhibited widely internationally. In 2010, Aldrich will present new work as part of the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

The paintings of Richard Aldrich exist in a sort of state of suspended animation. Assertive as objects even, or perhaps especially in, their apparent contextual incompleteness, the paintings’ physical presence invite a relation beyond looking; being -in a very literal sense- seems an appropriate term of relation as the work’s intelligibility - this a consequence of Aldrich’s methodology and the paintings’ formal qualities - always lies beyond itself and is only available when the work is considered as part of a relation. This may be a quality inherent to any artwork, but Aldrich manages to foreground the matter as form stands in near identity to content as the paintings merge with themselves and their immediate and projected surroundings.

Aldrich's exhibition with MISAKO & ROSEN will consist of 8 new paintings and a set of related posters.