Surfside, FL
Details
- Dimensions
- 45ʺW × 1ʺD × 33ʺH
- Styles
- Abstract
- Minimalist
- Art Subjects
- Figure
- Frame Type
- Framed
- Period
- 1980s
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Paper
- Condition
- Good Condition, Unknown, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Black
- Condition Notes
- Good Good less
- Description
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Curtis Ripley (American, born 1949). Expressionist figurative abstract oil painting on paper.
Titled "Study For A Diptych". Artist signature upper … more Curtis Ripley (American, born 1949). Expressionist figurative abstract oil painting on paper.
Titled "Study For A Diptych". Artist signature upper right and lower left. Good overall condition with normal storage wear to frame.
Provenance: Joy Moos Gallery. Bears their label verso.
Measures approximately 30 in. x 42 in. (image), 33 in. x 45 in framed.
Born: Lubbock, Texas, 1949. Lives and works in Los Angeles
Education: University of Wisconsin, Madison, MFA 1975, Texas Tech University, BFA 1971, University of the Americas, Mexico D.F. 1969
Teaching: Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (w/tenure) 1977-85
Assistant Professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 1975-77
Awards: Juror's Award, Zeichnung Heute, Kunsthalle, Nurnberg, 1983
National Endowment for the Arts, Artists Fellowship, 1979
His new works are musically inspired, atmospheric paintings that are influenced by poetry and jazz music. and bears the influence of both abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock as well as Wassily Kandinsky and the light and movement art. He has shown with Peter Lodato.
Curtis Ripley was born in Lubbock, Texas. He attented the University of the Americas, México D.F. in 1969; Texas Tech University, earing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1971; and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1975. Ripley served as a lecturer in 1975 at the Univeristy of Wisconsin, Madison; an Assistant Professor at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana from 1975 to 1977; an Associate Professor at the Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia from 1977 to 1985; an Associate Professor at California State University, San Bernardino from 1985 to 1986; and a lecturer at California State University, Long Beach from 1986 to 1987. His awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Artists Fellowship, 1979, and Juror’s Award, Zeichnung Heute, Kunsthalle, Nurnberg in 1983. He has had numerous one-person shows throughout the United States, has participated in a wide-variety of group exhibitions, and has works in several collections such as those of the Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, California; Chemical Bank, New York City; Yokohama Royal Park Hotel, Japan; MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada; and The Ambassador Hotel, Taipei. The artist lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Selected One Person Exhibitions:
William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, A Poem About Breathing--Recent Paintings
Susan Street Fine Arts, Solana Beach, CA, Invocation--/Recent Paintings
William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, Here and Now--Recent Paintings
Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA, Changing Light--Paintings and Works on Paper
Melissa Morgan Fine Arts, Palm Desert, CA New Paintings
Modernism West, San Francisco, Paintings
Modernism, San Francisco, Another Life--paintings and works on paper
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, NYC, Another World, paintings & works on paper
Berman/Turner Projects, Santa Monica, This Life--recent paintings and works on paper
Sylvia White Gallery, New York, Paintings and Works on Paper
The New Gallery, Nantucket, MA, Paintings and Works on Paper
Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings
Reynolds Gallery, Richmond VA, Works on Paper
Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, Paintings and Drawings
Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, Paintings and Drawings
Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, Vessels and Drawings
Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
Osuna Gallery, Washington, D.C., Ceramic Vessels
Selected Public Collections:
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Chemical Bank, New York
Prudential Insurance, Newark
Booz, Allen & Hamilton, New York
General Electric, Fairfield CT
Hotel Monaco, San Francisco
Imperial Hotel, Osaka, Japan
MGM Grand, Las Vegas
Southern California Gas Company, Los Angeles
Ritz-Carlton, Los Angeles
J.P. Morgan Chase, New York
Federal Reserve Bank, Richmond VA
Biogen Idec, Cambridge, MA
HSBC Private Bank, New York
HBO, New York
The Ambassador Hotel, Taipei
Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas
Capital One, Richmond VA
Markel Corporation, Glen Allen, VA
Wells Fargo Private Banking, Beverly Hills
Joy Moos gallery was an influential gallery specializing in folk art, self-taught visionary, outsider and contemporary art (Galerie Moos, Montréal; Joy Moos Gallery, Miami. Joy was a recognized photographer, jewelry designer and interior decorator. She wrote a catalogue on Purvis Young and promoted Cuban artist Ramon Carulla. Her gallery also showed major contemporary artists such as Robert Rauschenberg of Captiva Island and Edward Ruscha of Los Angeles. less
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