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Gregory Rick is a history painter for the 21st century, transforming past and current events into allegorical meditations on paper and canvas. Contrasting the genre artists of the Age of Enlightenment who depicted idealized scenes from historical events, Rick eschews the strictures of realism with cacophonous compositions of bodies and objects tangled together in unreal assemblages that poetically analyze different scenes in the history of empires. Running Wild at Johansson Projects presents new work in Rick’s ongoing painterly examination of American Imperialism and the aesthetics of …