the artist Richard Lund was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He had his first exhibition right after graduation from the Art Institute eleven years ago and has since shown his work at more than 30 venues including three Hortt Competitions (the oldest in Florida) at the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale. At 21, he began receiving top honors including: Best in Show in the "Salon Group Exhibition" at the South Florida Arts Center in Miami; Equal Merit Award at the Boca Raton Museum's "38th All-Florida Exhibition" in 1989; and was also selected to receive a fellowship from the South Florida Cultural Consortium, partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Presently, Lund is Associate Director of Barbara Scott Gallery in South Florida. His manipulated and configured found objects seem to issue from a determination to exclude concept and ideology from the encounter between subject and art object. His sculptural assemblages ask to be engaged as things, as specific constellations of specific materials. They ask to be experienced, not analyzed. Incised slabs of wood, spirals of tie wire, crates and metal boxes, segments of iron drainage pipe, stools, stained canvas, string, rusted steel rods, work together in a synergistic play. But what these things have in common is directly sensual and non-linguistic. Lund's sensitivity in setting up subtle relations is an unmediated encounter with the thing-in-itself. body of work