Richard Hoglund, American, born 1982, collage mixed media painting on canvas, On Deck. Signed and copyright, lower right. Titled, lower left. Framed. Richard Hoglund is an American artist who produces works on paper, photographs and paintings, all founded in what he considers to be the most expressive fundamental form: drawing. Born in 1982 in South Carolina, he grew up in New York and studied fine art at the School of Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and semiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, USA. In 2008, he obtained a MFA at the Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg, France, and in 2013 was selected by Tacita Dean CBE, RA to participate in her workshop at the Fundacion Botin in Santander, Spain. Using mark making as a starting point, Hoglund turns linear form into melodic abstract compositions in works which incorporate unusual materials such as shells, marble dust, pulverised bone, lead, tin, copper, silver and gold. As he explains: by combining different materials, in specific ways, within specific geometries, the meanings start to interact with each other and to create a story. Modern and Contemporary Fine Art, Abstract Paintings, Wall Art, and Collectibles. One of a kind artwork.