Richard Mock
Richard Basil Mock was a lifelong painter whose work ranged from a cartoonish, politically charged Neo-Expressionism through portraiture and self-portraiture to bright, paint-laden abstractions. He traveled extensively throughout Texas and the Southwest and exhibited widely. Mock participated in COLAB exhibitions and influenced many younger artists. His paintings and prints are now available at the Wall gallery in Redhook, Brooklyn. https://thewallgallerybrooklyn.net/
Mock was best known for the satiric linocut illustrations on social and political issues that appeared on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times from 1980 to 1996, in other New York-based newspapers and in 50 worldwide political publications. Notable for their sharp wit and bold, black-on-white forms, these linoleum prints reflected the influence of the German Expressionist Max Beckmann (1884-1950) and the Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913).
Richard Mock died in 2006 on July 28 in Brooklyn at the age of 61.
Man Perceiving
1986
screen print
Edition: 20, 6 AP
Image: 30"h X 22"w
5 colors on Rives BFK
Richard Mock’s Man Perceiving came from a series of drawings related to his mural at the Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City and a related group of paintings. The ground is aluminum powder.
Mock's prolific production of editorial linocuts chronicling a clear eye on world events. For many years, these prints were seen on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, in the Wall Street Journal and fifty politically oriented journals around the world. He was commissioned by the United Nations to produce a series of graphics dealing with issues such as child abuse, population control & AIDS prevention.