Curtis Ripley Art
American, b. 1949
Curtis Ripley is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1949. A graduate from the University of Wisconsin, Curtis Ripley, a Mar Vista artist, moved to the west coast in 1985.
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Artist: Curtis Ripley
June First
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Taking cues from the anti-figurative aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionists, Ripley’s process is one of spontaneity and gesture. Color is applied in broad strokes atop a black...
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2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Evening Symphony
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Taking cues from the anti-figurative aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionists, Ripley’s process is one of spontaneity and gesture. Color is applied in broad strokes atop a black...
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2010s Contemporary Curtis Ripley Art
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Canvas, Oil
L.A. Nocturne #6
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Chromesthesia is a neurological phenomenon experienced in the synthesis of binary sensorial modalities (synesthesia) where sound and color converge into a joint perception. In his pa...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art
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Canvas, Oil
Sonnet #2
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley's paintings have always presented the viewer a space where images are as important as the depth of the atmosphere in which they exist. The images are more evocative tha...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
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Canvas, Oil
Sonata #16
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley’s newest abstractions are sublime musings on expression itself. Concerned with capturing those phenomena which are most difficult to describe with words, Ripley’s paint...
Category
2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Abstract Night
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley's artistic approach embodies the essence of the American Abstract Expressionist movement, particularly in its rejection of figurative representation and emphasis on spo...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Late July
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley's artistic approach embodies the essence of the American Abstract Expressionist movement, particularly in its rejection of figurative representation and emphasis on spo...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Atmospheric River
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley's artistic approach embodies the essence of the American Abstract Expressionist movement, particularly in its rejection of figurative representation and emphasis on spo...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Free Verse
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Taking cues from the anti-figurative aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionists, Ripley’s process is one of spontaneity and gesture. Color is applied in broad strokes atop a black...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art
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Canvas, Oil
A Poem About Night
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Taking cues from the anti-figurative aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionists, Ripley’s process is one of spontaneity and gesture. Color is applied in broad strokes atop a black...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art
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Canvas, Oil
Mexico City
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Taking cues from the anti-figurative aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionists, Ripley’s process is one of spontaneity and gesture. Color is applied in broad strokes atop a black...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Evening Symphony
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Taking cues from the anti-figurative aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionists, Ripley’s process is one of spontaneity and gesture. Color is applied in broad strokes atop a black...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cinco de Mayo (May 5th)
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Taking cues from the anti-figurative aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionists, Ripley’s process is one of spontaneity and gesture. Color is applied in broad strokes atop a black...
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2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
January Light
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Taking cues from the anti-figurative aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionists, Ripley’s process is one of spontaneity and gesture. Color is applied in broad strokes atop a black...
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2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
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Canvas, Oil
Here and Gone
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Taking cues from the anti-figurative aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionists, Ripley’s process is one of spontaneity and gesture. Color is applied in broad strokes atop a black...
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2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Late July
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Taking cues from the anti-figurative aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionists, Ripley’s process is one of spontaneity and gesture. Color is applied in broad strokes atop a black...
Category
2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rhapsody in Gray
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Taking cues from the anti-figurative aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionists, Ripley’s process is one of spontaneity and gesture. Color is applied in broad strokes atop a black...
Category
2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Late August
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Taking cues from the anti-figurative aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionists, Ripley’s process is one of spontaneity and gesture. Color is applied in broad strokes atop a black...
Category
2010s Contemporary Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Color Theory
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Chromesthesia is a neurological phenomenon experienced in the synthesis of binary sensorial modalities (synesthesia) where sound and color converge into a joint perception. In his pa...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Silver Springs
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Taking cues from the anti-figurative aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionists, Ripley’s process is one of spontaneity and gesture. Color is applied in broad strokes atop a black...
Category
2010s Contemporary Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Miscellaneous Collage
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Chromesthesia is a neurological phenomenon experienced in the synthesis of binary sensorial modalities (synesthesia) where sound and color converge into a joint perception. In his pa...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Paper, Oil
Vintage Large Oil Painting Study for Diptych Abstract Modernist Vessel and Tree
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Surfside, FL
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...
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1980s Contemporary Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Paper, Oil
A Murmur of Green
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Chromesthesia is a neurological phenomenon experienced in the synthesis of binary sensorial modalities (synesthesia) where sound and color converge into a joint perception. In his pa...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
You Don't Know Me
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Chromesthesia is a neurological phenomenon experienced in the synthesis of binary sensorial modalities (synesthesia) where sound and color converge into a joint perception. In his pa...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Habana
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Chromesthesia is a neurological phenomenon experienced in the synthesis of binary sensorial modalities (synesthesia) where sound and color converge into a joint perception. In his pa...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lorenzo
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Chromesthesia is a neurological phenomenon experienced in the synthesis of binary sensorial modalities (synesthesia) where sound and color converge into a joint perception. In his pa...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
These Days
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Chromesthesia is a neurological phenomenon experienced in the synthesis of binary sensorial modalities (synesthesia) where sound and color converge into a joint perception. In his pa...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
September Song
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Chromesthesia is a neurological phenomenon experienced in the synthesis of binary sensorial modalities (synesthesia) where sound and color converge into a joint perception. In his pa...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Metropolitan
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Chromesthesia is a neurological phenomenon experienced in the synthesis of binary sensorial modalities (synesthesia) where sound and color converge into a joint perception. In his pa...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Evening Light
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Chromesthesia is a neurological phenomenon experienced in the synthesis of binary sensorial modalities (synesthesia) where sound and color converge into a joint perception. In his pa...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
What a Day
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Chromesthesia is a neurological phenomenon experienced in the synthesis of binary sensorial modalities (synesthesia) where sound and color converge into a joint perception. In his pa...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A June Evening
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Chromesthesia is a neurological phenomenon experienced in the synthesis of binary sensorial modalities (synesthesia) where sound and color converge into a joint perception. In his pa...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Zola
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Chromesthesia is a neurological phenomenon experienced in the synthesis of binary sensorial modalities (synesthesia) where sound and color converge into a joint perception. In his pa...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid January
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Chromesthesia is a neurological phenomenon experienced in the synthesis of binary sensorial modalities (synesthesia) where sound and color converge into a joint perception. In his pa...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Alfonso
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Chromesthesia is a neurological phenomenon experienced in the synthesis of binary sensorial modalities (synesthesia) where sound and color converge into a joint perception. In his pa...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Costa del Sol
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Taking cues from the anti-figurative aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionists, Ripley’s process is one of spontaneity and gesture. Color is applied in broad strokes atop a black...
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2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Jazz Age
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Taking cues from the anti-figurative aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionists, Ripley’s process is one of spontaneity and gesture. Color is applied in broad strokes atop a black...
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2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
I Worked on Boom!
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Taking cues from the anti-figurative aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionists, Ripley’s process is one of spontaneity and gesture. Color is applied in broad strokes atop a black...
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2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
You Don't Know Me
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Taking cues from the anti-figurative aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionists, Ripley’s process is one of spontaneity and gesture. Color is applied in broad strokes atop a black...
Category
2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sonata #30
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Taking cues from the anti-figurative aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionists, Ripley’s process is one of spontaneity and gesture. Color is applied in broad strokes atop a black...
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2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Minuet
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley’s newest abstractions are sublime musings on expression itself. Concerned with capturing those phenomena which are most difficult to describe with words, Ripley’s paint...
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2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Speed of Light
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley’s newest abstractions are sublime musings on expression itself. Concerned with capturing those phenomena which are most difficult to describe with words, Ripley’s paint...
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2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Summer Song
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley’s newest abstractions are sublime musings on expression itself. Concerned with capturing those phenomena which are most difficult to describe with words, Ripley’s paint...
Category
2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Summer Song
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley’s newest abstractions are sublime musings on expression itself. Concerned with capturing those phenomena which are most difficult to describe with words, Ripley’s paint...
Category
2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boom!
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley’s newest abstractions are sublime musings on expression itself. Concerned with capturing those phenomena which are most difficult to describe with words, Ripley’s paint...
Category
2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stillness of Evening
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley’s newest abstractions are sublime musings on expression itself. Concerned with capturing those phenomena which are most difficult to describe with words, Ripley’s paint...
Category
2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nightfall #11
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley’s newest abstractions are sublime musings on expression itself. Concerned with capturing those phenomena which are most difficult to describe with words, Ripley’s paint...
Category
2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nightfall #10
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley’s newest abstractions are sublime musings on expression itself. Concerned with capturing those phenomena which are most difficult to describe with words, Ripley’s paint...
Category
2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Spring Evening
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley’s newest abstractions are sublime musings on expression itself. Concerned with capturing those phenomena which are most difficult to describe with words, Ripley’s paint...
Category
2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nightfall #11
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley's paintings have always presented the viewer a space where images are as important as the depth of the atmosphere in which they exist. The images are more evocative tha...
Category
2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wild Card
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley’s newest abstractions are sublime musings on expression itself. Concerned with capturing those phenomena which are most difficult to describe with words, Ripley’s paint...
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2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Whistler
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley’s newest abstractions are sublime musings on expression itself. Concerned with capturing those phenomena which are most difficult to describe with words, Ripley’s paint...
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2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nightfall #8
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley’s newest abstractions are sublime musings on expression itself. Concerned with capturing those phenomena which are most difficult to describe with words, Ripley’s paint...
Category
2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Goodbye In Spanish
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley’s newest abstractions are sublime musings on expression itself. Concerned with capturing those phenomena which are most difficult to describe with words, Ripley’s paint...
Category
2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
June Night
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley’s newest abstractions are sublime musings on expression itself. Concerned with capturing those phenomena which are most difficult to describe with words, Ripley’s paint...
Category
2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Lost Poem
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley’s newest abstractions are sublime musings on expression itself. Concerned with capturing those phenomena which are most difficult to describe with words, Ripley’s paint...
Category
2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sonata #11
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley’s newest abstractions are sublime musings on expression itself. Concerned with capturing those phenomena which are most difficult to describe with words, Ripley’s paint...
Category
2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bright Winter
By Curtis Ripley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Curtis Ripley's paintings have always presented the viewer a space where images are as important as the depth of the atmosphere in which they exist. The images are more evocative tha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Curtis Ripley Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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