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Richard DePeaux: A Retrospective

Posted by Brandi Engel for College of Fine Arts
In 1969, Richard DePeaux arrived in the Department of Humanities at Western Michigan University where he taught for twenty years. He later served as Area Coordinator of Painting at what would become the Frostic School of Art, where he taught art history, computer graphics, and drawing.

The work of Richard DePeaux has been exhibited in institutions including the Bavarian National Museum, Der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek (Munich), the British Museum, the Department of Music and Prints (London), the Lincoln Center, the Rare Book and Manuscript Collection (New York City), the Library of Congress (D.C.), as well as the National Museum of Australia (Kamberri/Canberra), Kunitachi College of Music (Tokyo), the University of California - Berkeley, Yale University, and Harvard University.

In addition, Richard’s work has been celebrated in numerous exhibitions throughout the world, including Sweden, London, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, as well as the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian Institute, the Walker Art Center, CERN, the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, and the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. He was featured in the July 1995 issue of the Tokyo Monthly Magazine and was invited to speak on aesthetics and quantum mechanics at the 1998 annual conference of the American Association of Physics Teachers, of which he was a certified member, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Richard DePeaux passed away on April 7, 2024, leaving behind an incredible legacy of teaching and art making. This retrospective exhibition features highlights from his impressive career.

Gallery hours

Tuesday - Saturday: 12 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Aug. 19, 2025 — midnight
Monroe-Brown & Kerr Galleries Richmond Center for Visual Arts
Kalamazoo, MI 49008 US