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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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Evening Symphony

Evening Symphony

By Curtis Ripley

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Through a process of layering the paint, repeatedly wiping out and repainting, Ripley achieves a sense of moody visual jazz, where depth, movement and color create an ever-evolving v...

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2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ipanema
Ipanema

Ipanema

By Curtis Ripley

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Through a process of layering the paint, repeatedly wiping out and repainting, Ripley achieves a sense of moody visual jazz, where depth, movement and color create an ever-evolving v...

Category

2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

This April

This April

By Curtis Ripley

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Through a process of layering the paint, repeatedly wiping out and repainting, Ripley achieves a sense of moody visual jazz, where depth, movement and color create an ever-evolving v...

Category

2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Gloaming
The Gloaming

The Gloaming

By Curtis Ripley

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Through a process of layering the paint, repeatedly wiping out and repainting, Ripley achieves a sense of moody visual jazz, where depth, movement and color create an ever-evolving v...

Category

2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Summer Evening
A Summer Evening

A Summer Evening

By Curtis Ripley

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Through a process of layering the paint, repeatedly wiping out and repainting, Ripley achieves a sense of moody visual jazz, where depth, movement and color create an ever-evolving v...

Category

2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

September Song

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...

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2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Blues of Evening
Blues of Evening

Blues of Evening

By Curtis Ripley

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Through a process of layering the paint, repeatedly wiping out and repainting, Ripley achieves a sense of moody visual jazz, where depth, movement and color create an ever-evolving v...

Category

2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Alfonso

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...

Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Free Verse

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...

Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Zola

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...

Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Here and Gone
Here and Gone

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...

Category

2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lorenzo

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...

Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Curtis Ripley Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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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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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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Curtis RipleyFlamenco, 2017

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At Last

Curtis RipleyAt Last, 2017

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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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Curtis RipleyNightfall #9, 2017

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A Poem About Light

Curtis RipleyA Poem About Light, 2017

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Located in Santa Monica, CA

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June Morning
June Morning

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June Morning

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

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Light of Day
Light of Day

Curtis RipleyLight of Day, 2016

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Light of Day

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

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Canvas, Oil

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