Brad Richards

“Brad Richards transforms the rugged light and sweeping terrain of New Mexico’s high desert into a visual language rooted in his former life as an automotive and motorcycle industrial designer. Using that precision of form and attention to silhouette, his work distills the spirit of the American West — its freedom, its grit, its open horizons — into compositions that feel sleek and elemental. Through a palette that evokes desert dusk, chrome glint, and broad skies, Richards builds contemporary landscapes and animal-figures (buffalo, horses, high-desert icons) that merge the geometry of design with the raw romance of the frontier. The result: art that is at once minimalist and emotionally potent, grounded in place but elevated as modern expression.”