Shaun Richards latest body of work is a meditation from within a dream. Icons and spectres drawn from the American tale of the last half-century haunt these pieces.
Visual cues from lowbrow genre work — pulp, noir, porno — inflect a series of moments and montages which, taken as a whole, begin to etch out the artist's ongoing psychic negotiation of being in the twenty-first century. But the personal territory Richards mines is rich with transferrable revelation. Through juxtaposition and accretion of figurative, symbolic and textual elements, Richards illuminates the machinations of finance, desire and violence that lurk behind the veneer of the everyday.

- Lincoln Hancock