research overview
- Professor Richard Saxton is an artist whose work focuses primarily on rural knowledge and landscape. Saxton’s work is conceived through an interdisciplinary cultural framework, and has been described as contemporary vernacular, non-heroic, and an art infused with rural experience without subscribing to any one genre or culture. Saxton is the founder of M12 Studio, a small-scale, artist-constructed studio and organization committed to activating and amplifying the aesthetics of rural space on both regional and global scales. Saxton's collective and solo work has been featured in many national and international exhibitions, including those at SITE Santa Fe, the Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe; the Corcoran Gallery of Art and School of Art and Design in Washington, D.C.; the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles; the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale; the Biennial of the Americas in Denver; and the Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin.