By Rick Pas
Located in Chicago, IL
A male bald eagle screeches to be heard above the stormy backdrop of Lake Michigan's Manitou Passage in Northern Michigan. Extraordinarily painted with such realistic detail, this majestic bird's feathers beg for the viewer to come in for a closer look at its plumage. The piece is framed in a simple black wooden frame measuring 31 x 51 inches.
Rick Pas
Calls in the Manitou Passage
acrylic on panel
28h x 48w in
71.12h x 121.92w cm
RPA022
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Creating is an addiction. With all the highs and lows you would expect. I am interested in the surface textures and creating paintings that portray them in realistic detail. Hopefully a viewer will feel they can run a hand over the feathers and moss, or grasp an object in the painting. This detail is usually composed in an abstract design. The design can occur naturally or be arranged by me.
RESUME
Rick Pas
b. 1958, Flint, MI
Education
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI - Bachelor of Fine Arts - Pearson Art Scholarship
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, Take Flight
William Baczek Fine Arts, Animal Kingdom & Winter
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY, Western Visions
Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK, Braveheart
2021 William Baczek Fine Arts, 25th Anniversary Exhibition
2020 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer
Gallery Victor Armendariz, The Palette of Pride
2019 The James Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, Environmental Impact II
Lovetts Gallery, Realism, Reveries, & Rhapsody
Gallery Victor Armendariz, New Work
2018 Gallery Victor Armendariz, Front and Center
Corporate Art Advisory, Chicago, IL, Portraits and Places: Redefining Realism
William Baczek Fine Arts, Animal Kingdom
Lovetts Gallery, Rear Window
2017 William Baczek Fine Arts, Winter, Animal Kingdom, Summer
Lovetts Gallery, The Good, the Bad, and the WTF? & Red
2016 William Baczek Fine Arts, 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Summer, & Landscape Exhibition
Monroe Community Church, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize
Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL, Group Exhibition
Lovetts Gallery, Cauldron
2015 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer
JW Marriott, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize
Handwright Gallery, New Canaan, CT, Small Works
Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL, Ann Nathan Gallery Satellite Exhibition
RJD Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, A Magical Menagerie
2014 William Baczek Fine Arts, Spring & Landscape Exhibition
2013 Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH, Environmental Impact
Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI, Interspecies
2012 Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art, Midland, MI, The Nature of Art: An Invitational Exhibition
William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Exhibition
Ann Nathan Gallery, Group Exhibition
Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids, MI, A Natural Selection
Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI, Art and the Animal
Gallery Project, Extremes & Umvelt
2010 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, MI, Juried Fine Arts Exhibition
San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA, Art and the Animal
2009 West Michigan Center for Arts & Technology, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize
William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition
Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI, Michigan Fine Arts Competition
Gallery Project, Shrines and Altars
Ann Nathan Gallery, Fall Group Exhibition
2008 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition
Gallery Project, Animal Intelligence
Holland Area Arts Council, Holland, MI, The Natural Eye
Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI, Art and the Animal
2007 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Group Exhibition
2006 WARD Gallery, Harbor Springs, MI, New Dimensions in the Natural World
Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT, Art and the Animal
Gallery Project, Nature Reperceived
2005 Light Street Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Animal House
Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT, Art of the Animal Kingdom
The Wildlife Experience, Parker, CO, AMERICAN BIRDS: A Flight Through Time
WARD Gallery, Summer Celebration
2004 Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC, Contemporary Realism
Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, Oradell, NJ, Art and the Animal
Washington Street Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, Fifth Year Celebration
2003 Fraser Gallery, Georgetown International
2001 Sioux City...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Chicago - Art