{"title":"Richard Koscher","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg style=\"max-height: 300px; max-width:55%\" src=\"https:\/\/helloart-prod-bucket.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/artist\/richard-koscher\/richard-koscher-profile.jpg\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Koscher (born in Austria) is an Austrian-American painter working in oil. His practice is grounded in appropriation, treating the techniques and imagery of art history as working material rather than as reference. He is the author of REVEAL: The Empowerment of Appropriation Art (2024) published by Snap Collective, which sets out this method across more than eighty of his paintings.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eHe is currently developing Ghosts of the Ice, a body of work that extends the method to climate. The paintings are made in thermochromic pigment and mounted in electrically heated frames fitted with a viewer-controlled dial, so that the image leaves the panel as the surface warms. The frames are in prototype. Alongside the paintings, the project includes a documentary film in production, a serialized blog, and an original album.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eKoscher completed The Arctic Circle expeditionary residency in July 2026, sailing the Svalbard archipelago aboard the three-masted schooner Rembrandt van Rijn, and will be in residence at the Spitsbergen Artists Center in Longyearbyen in 2027. \r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eRecent exhibitions include Icons, Rebels \u0026amp; Saints, Wallbox Gallery (2025); the Austrian National Day cultural program at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center (2024); and Reveal, The Caldwell Gallery (2022). His work has raised funds for the Equal Justice Initiative, No Kid Hungry, Save Sight Now, NRDC and HelpUsHelp.charity. He has worked as a senior creative director in visual communication for thirty years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"johnny-cash","title":"Johnny Cash","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOil on canvas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e36x24x2\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have to admit I saw Johnny Cash for the first time as an actor in a Columbo episode back in Austria, before I knew his music.I have to admit I saw Johnny Cash for the first time as an actor in a Columbo episode back in Austria, before I knew his music. It wasn't until I came here that I became fascinated with his sound. Like most of us I've seen Walk the Line, which spun me further into the Johnny Cash story. One of my favorite records is his final American Recordings series, where he covered Nine Inch Nails' \"Hurt\" and Gordon Lightfoot's \"If You Could Read My Mind,\" which to this day, though he didn't write it, remains my favorite song of his.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard Koscher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44452952801383,"sku":null,"price":1350.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0063\/3038\/4487\/files\/1_1786999999_38135.png?v=1787059524"},{"product_id":"bono-achtung-baby","title":"Bono - Achtung Baby","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOil on canvas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e24x36x2\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eU2 was my first concert, Vienna,1992. The ZooTV Tour, Achtung Baby, their first open-air show of the tour. Sixty thousand people by the blue Danube, and I was seventeen. When Where the Streets Have No Name began, the air itself seemed to vibrate. Every cell, every hair, every nerve alive. It felt like the world had cracked open and turned into sound.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eOf all the musicians I’ve painted, U2 remains the one closest to me. Their music has followed me through every decade, through confusion, love, change, and return. I’ve seen them on the Achtung Baby Tour, the Elevation Tour, the 360° Tour, and most recently at the Sphere in Vegas. My son shared his second ticket with me. He was seventeen, the same age I was in Vienna.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eBono has appeared in my dreams for years, sometimes sitting on a New York stoop, answering all the questions I never asked. I suppose this painting is a continuation of that conversation. Someday I might meet him for real, that dream is still bright. But for tonight, this painting stands in for that meeting.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eHere’s to the first concert, the last encore, and the music that never leaves you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard Koscher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44452956405863,"sku":null,"price":1350.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0063\/3038\/4487\/files\/1_1787000098_15462.png?v=1787059536"},{"product_id":"kamala","title":"Kamala","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOil on canvas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e36x36x2\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKamala Harris, Attorney and former Vice President of the United States\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard Koscher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44452961091687,"sku":null,"price":990.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0063\/3038\/4487\/files\/1_1787000414_55078.png?v=1787059552"},{"product_id":"kurt-cobain","title":"Kurt Cobain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOil on canvas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e24x30x2\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI always dive very deep when painting either a great master or a certain subject. No one has stirred as many emotions as Kurt Cobain did while painting him. Like a time machine, it brought me right back to 1992-1994. Kurt influenced me during those years tremendously. So much that I also started a band called \"Mistake\". We sounded like a mix between Nirvana (lyrics) and Cat Stevens (musical) We even made it to the radio once. And when I say once I mean once. But back to Kurt. What I love so much about him is his intensity! Dave Grohl called it \"Spitting Nails\" by that, he was talking about the intensity Kurt used to sing his songs. So powerful and frankly I just don't hear it like that nowadays anymore. Listen to: \"With the lights out, it's less dangerous, Here we are now, entertain us, I feel stupid and contagious, Here we are now, entertain us\" and you know what I mean.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard Koscher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44452965318759,"sku":null,"price":1350.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0063\/3038\/4487\/files\/1_1786999163_74077.png?v=1787059567"},{"product_id":"jaws","title":"Jaws","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOil on canvas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e24x36x2\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🦈 🥳 Happy 50th, JAWS! You terrified me, inspired me, and yep, the beaches are open this 4th of July (says one very bad mayor)\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eMy first encounter with JAWS is burned into my brain, though I can’t tell you exactly how old I was, only that I was definitely too young to sleep afterward. One worn-out VHS tape, one sinister fin cutting through the water, and boom: obsession unlocked.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eI didn’t just watch JAWS, I made it my whole personality. By 1984, I had a “Shark Study” notebook where I scribbled every fact I could find about sharks and taped in every newspaper clipping I could get my hands on. Spielberg pulled a Hitchcock, adapting, reinventing, squeezing suspense out of setbacks. Hitchcock did it from the silent era to the 70s; Spielberg did it on the ocean with a plastic shark and a deadline. Over the years, JAWS didn’t just scare me, it showed me how to craft a story that stirs the imagination. JAWS burned into my brain that story beats spectacle, every single time and problems can force you to be more creative than any perfect plan ever will.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eSo here’s to JAWS at 50, and remember: “Amity, as you know, means friendship”... and according to the mayor, the beaches are open. Happy birthday, JAWS. 🦈 🥳\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard Koscher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44452969185383,"sku":null,"price":1350.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0063\/3038\/4487\/files\/1_1787000598_52572.png?v=1787059580"},{"product_id":"wa-ksa-ksa-broken-jaw","title":"Wa-Ksa-Ksa - Broken Jaw","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOil on canvas.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e24x36x2\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI traveled to Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota, a place of immense beauty and historical weight. As a European, I grew up hearing stories of the Native Americans and the lands that were taken from them. But standing on the vast plains, stretching from Yellowstone, the Black Hills to the Badlands, brought an entirely new understanding of the enormity of their loss. The sheer scale of the landscape is overwhelming, and you realize just how significant it was to the Blackfeet (Niitsitapi) and Crow (Apsáalooke) tribes and many more, whose ancestral lands were taken from them. Areas considered sacred, spiritual places where these tribes thrived before being forcibly removed. The Blackfeet once roamed the northern plains and the Crow lived along the Yellowstone River. Both tribes embodied a deep connection to the land, and their stories of resilience resonate deeply.\r\u003cbr\u003e\r\u003cbr\u003eI also learned about Wa-Ksa-Ksa, or Broken Jaw, from the Lakota, a Sioux tribe. I had seen a photograph of him before, but being in the lands they fought so hard to protect brought the impact of history into sharp focus. The tribes were cheated out of their homes, their dignity, and their futures. 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Fast forward almost 30 years, he has not only proven himself as an entertainer but also as a true poet. When listening to \"Bright Horses\" or \"Push the Sky away\" I get goosebumps every time. 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