Richard Genovese

Richard Genovese (born 1947) is a surrealist collagist, photographer, painter, and theorist.

He has collaborated with Ray Johnson and is in close association with the following groups:

• London Surrealist Group;
• Upland Trout, UK;
• Vivid Surrealism (Zazie, Pierre Petiot);
• Blue Feathers Project, Minnesota Surrealist Group;
• Surrealists in Saint Louis;
• Grupo Surrealista De São Paulo Sergio Lima;
• Portland Surrealist Group;
• The Surrealist Group in Stockholm Johannes Bergmark

Genovese is the intitiator of the Altered Lithograph, Excavation collage and novel, Manchando photography and the Spiral Poem.

Publications

• an autobiography, published in 2003 through the Fiji Island Mermaid Press;
• Par*faite – Surrealist Investigations (A ‘cyberzine’): Vol. 1 Issue #1. – 2004
• "The Exhibitioner", (Vol.2, Issue #3 – 1994, pp.12), Publications Archives Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y.
• "Appearances Magazine" (No. 14, 1988) Untitled Altered lithograph, New York, N.Y.
• Service Culturels de L'Ambassade de France (NY, NY) “Cinquantenaire de la Parution la Surrealisme”, “France~Amerique” (Curator: Marcel Jean) (Winter 1974)

References

• ARTE.NET listing for Richard Genovese
• Exhibition catalogue, "Masques": 1985 • Foreword by JH Matthews
• Who's Who in America, 1982 – present
• Who's Who in American Art, 1985 – present
• The Fales Library & Special Collections Guide to the Bob Witz Papers/Appearances Magazine ca. 1980–1996
• Article Preview from The New York Times: "Seeking Shivers of Recognition in a Bizarre Context" by Phyllis Braff. New York, N.Y.: Mar 15, 1987. pg. LI32, 1 pgs
• Oswego State University (Oswego, NY): [Dr. J.H. Matthews] “Surrealism and Contemporary Painting” (1985)

See also:

• Hans Bellmer
• Pierre Molinier

• Surrealist Techniques