In 2002 the gallery moved to Saint-Louis island, adopted the new name of Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard as well as a new exhibition program that was more focused on new painting. The gallery mostly organized solo shows with new artists such as Kiyoshi Nakagami, Yek, Paul Henry Ramirez, Carl Fudge, Adam Ross,  Hervé Heuzé, Beverly Fishman, Alice Stepanek & Steven Maslin, Scott Anderson, Yuichi Higashionna, Shirley Kaneda, Tim Bavington.

In 2006 the gallery moved to its current location in the Marais and doubled its space in 2007 with a 400 square meter exhibition space. In 2007 the gallery joined the Professional Committee of Art Galleries. The gallery exhibited emerging artists such as David Ryan, Sven-Ole Frahm, and more established ones such as Bram Bogart, Ron Gorchov, Frank Stella, Judy Pfaff, Alain Kirili, Linda Besemer, Joseph Nechvatal.  In the exhibition The Incomplete – Paris in 2010, the gallery introduced 28 artists collected by Hubert Neumann.

In 2011 they opened a second gallery in Chelsea in New York The gallery name was changed in Galerie Richard. In 2012 they presented a Takesada Matsutani’s retrospective exhibition in Paris and in 2013 a double show in New York and Paris. In 2014 they organized an itinerary exhibition John M Armleder – Jean Carzou in New York, Paris, and Miami at Untitled. The gallery has developed a digital photography program with Dionisio González, Li Wei, Lauren Marsolier, Olaf Rauh and Yang Yi. In 2015 Galerie Richard sold a major work by Matsutani to The Centre Georges Pompidou. In 2015 they moved to Lower East Side. Jeremy Thomas joined both galleries, and Scott Anderson came back to the Parisian gallery. In 2018 the gallery was pleased to represent Koen Delaere, Sebastian Ludwig, Eduardo Portillo, Dennis Hollingsworth and Kim Young-Hun. In 2019 the gallery is representing Gustavo Prado, Rainer Gross. In 2021 the gallery is representing Rémy Hysbergue, Chris Finley, Joeggu Hossmann.

Lauren Marsolier      

Transition, an exhibition of photographic works by Lauren Marsolier, the first artist solo exhibition in Paris.

Lauren Marsolier creates spaces that are convincingly real using multiple photographs, unrelated fragments of the outside world collected over time in a variety of locations. Months or years often separate the capture of elements juxtaposed in her landscapes. Her photomontages are conceived using a personal photo library, following a process that is not unlike the way many painters make sketches at different locations and later combine them in a painting.

Her work probes the mental process of transition, a particular phase when our parameters of perception shift, when we suddenly don’t see ourselves, our environment, or our life quite the same way we used to. These transitional periods often feel like being in a place we know but can’t quite identify. As we try to adjust to a post-modern society marked by speed and the implosion of boundaries between image and referent, appearance and reality, we repeatedly get this feeling of disorientation and dissonance. We have been introduced to a new stage of abstraction, a dematerialization in which images and signs take on a life of their own, divorced from our former notions of the real. The loss of concrete connections to the objects of our senses creates a void within us, but it also unleashes a flow of new and elusive perceptions. Giving them the visual characteristics of a landscape is her way to explore them.

Located somewhere between fiction and reality, her images represent a mental landscape affected by a world of constant change. They show an unreality become manifest, transitional non-places where human action and inhabitation are recorded in strange antitheses of nature and artifice, or, better still, artificial nature and natural artifice.

French-born Lauren Marsolier lives and works in Los Angeles. She is the recipient of many awards including the 2013 Houston Center for Photography fellowship, where she had a solo exhibition. Her work was included in the ’31 Women in Art Photography’ 2012 selection by the Humble Art Foundation in NYC, ‘Looking at the Land’ at the RISD Museum of Art and also in the major 2013 London Exhibition ‘Landmark: The Fields of Photography’ at the Somerset House. Her images have been published internationally and the British Journal of Photography featured her as one of ‘20 photographers to watch in 2013’. Her first monograph ‘Transition’ has just been published by Kerber Verlag. On November 19, 2014, she will be part of a panel discussion about contemporary landscape photography at TATE MODERN in London, moderated by William A. Ewing with fellow artists: Thomas Struth, Penelope Umbrico, Massimo Vitali and Mishka Henner. She will also have a solo show at Galerie Richard in New York in Spring 2015.