Richard Kalina was born in 1946 and studied at the University of Pennsylvania. He began exhibiting in 1969 and has regularly shown his work in museums and galleries, both nationally and internationally. This current show is his twenty-fifth solo exhibition and his twelfth at Lennon, Weinberg since 1992. Previously, he exhibited with Ivan Karp during the early years of OK Harris Gallery, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Piezo Electric, and Diane Brown. Kalina has been included in several important survey exhibitions of abstract painting, including both exhibitions titled Conceptual Abstraction, first at Sidney Janis Gallery in 1991 and in the exhibition that revisited that show which took place at the Hunter College Art Gallery in 2012. He is currently included in a European museum exhibition, Pattern, Decoration & Crime, which opened at the Musée D’Art Moderne et Contemporain in Genève, Switzerland, in October 2018, and travels to Le Consortium in Dijon in the Spring of 2019.  His works are included in museum collections such as the Arkansas Art Center, Grey Art Gallery, Guild Hall Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, National Academy Museum, National Museum of American Art, Norton Gallery, Parrish Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Rutgers University Art Museum, Springfield Art Museum, the Wadsworth Atheneum and Yale University Art Gallery.  In addition to his work in painting and drawing, Richard Kalina is a well-known art critic, serving as a Contributing Editor at Art in America and regularly publishing articles in that magazine and others. He is the author of Imagining the Present: Context, Content, and the Role of the Critic, published by Routledge Press. Richard Kalina is Professor of Art at Fordham University in New York, where he teaches studio art and art history. He is a member of the National Academy of Design.