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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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Artist: Curtis Ripley
Nightfall #8
Nightfall #8

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...

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2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

June Night

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...

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2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Nightfall #10
Nightfall #10

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

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

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...

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2010s Abstract Expressionist 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

Goodbye In Spanish
Goodbye In Spanish

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

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

Sonata #14

Sonata #14

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
The Lost Poem

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

The Traveler

The Traveler

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 #6
Nightfall #6

Nightfall #6

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

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

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

Nightfall #11

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

A Summer Song
A Summer Song

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

Nightfall #11
Nightfall #11

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
Wild Card

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

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...

Category

2010s Abstract Curtis Ripley Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sonata #16

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

Sonata #6

Sonata #6

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 #13

Sonata #13

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

Sonnet #2
Sonnet #2

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...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Curtis Ripley Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bright Winter

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

3 June 2015

3 June 2015

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

Oil, Paper

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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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July Morning
July Morning

July Morning

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Flamenco

Curtis RipleyFlamenco, 2017

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H 60 in W 48 in

Flamenco

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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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At Last

Curtis RipleyAt Last, 2017

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H 60 in W 72 in

At Last

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

Nightfall #9

Curtis RipleyNightfall #9, 2017

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H 48 in W 36 in D 1.5 in

Nightfall #9

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

A Poem About Light

Curtis RipleyA Poem About Light, 2017

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H 30 in W 40 in D 1.5 in

A Poem About 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

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Canvas, Oil

June Morning
June Morning

Curtis RipleyJune Morning, 2016

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H 48 in W 60 in D 1.5 in

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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H 30 in W 72 in D 1.5 in

Light of Day

By Curtis Ripley

Located in Santa Monica, CA

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