Ron Rizk’s paintings depict the intimate personal history of locales from his life. Ethereal and yet grounded in reality, the paintings tell the stories of very real places as seen through the artist’s memories. Highly accurate in some aspects and imagined in others, the paintings exist in a space between reality and the surreal.
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BORN 1941 New Brunswick, NJ
EDUCATION
Diploma, Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art
BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art
MFA, University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Billis Williams Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Billis Williams Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2015 Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2013 Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2010 Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007 Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA
2004 Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1996 Ettinger and Reynolds Gallery, Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA
1995 Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
1993 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
1989 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
1988 "Ron Rizk: A Survey 1978-86", Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Grand Rapids, MI traveled to: Midland Art Council, Midland, MI; Jesse Besser Museum, Aplena, MI; Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI; Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI; Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI; Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
1986 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982 Neil G. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1979 Wenger Gallery, San Diego, CA
1979 University Gallery, University of Southern California, CA
1975 Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
1974 Light Gallery, New York, NY
1965 Gallery 61, Newark, NJ
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 "Seattle Art Fair", Billis Williams Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022 "Seattle Art Fair" , Billis Williams Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022 "ArtMarket San Francisco", Billis Williams Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2021 "The Cityscape Show", George Billis Gallery LA, Los Angeles, CA
2014 "Group Show", Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2013 "Summer Group Show" Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2012 “Summer Group Show”, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2012 “Small Paintings Group Show”, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2011 “Gallery Artists Group Show”, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2010 "Reality Check, Contemporary Trompe l'Oeil Paintings", Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA
2009 "Summer Group Show", Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2008 “Visions Selections from the James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawings,” Naples, FL and Little Rock, AK
2007 “The Toy show,” Hunsaker/Schlesinger, Santa Monica, Ca
2007 “Representation,” Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY and San Francisco, CA
2005 “It ain’t Necessarily So,” Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, OR
2005 “New Old Masters”, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA
2004 “Drawings VII”, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2002 "Unconventional Views: New Concepts in Contemporary Still Life Painting" Ettinger Gallery, Laguna College of Art & Design, Laguna Beach, CA
2000-01 “Representing LA: Pictorial Currents in Contemporary Southern California Art, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA traveled to South Texas Art Center, Corpus Christi, TX and Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
1999 "Drawing the Line," Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
1998 "Drawings IV", Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 "Illusion-Tromp L'oeil And Slight of Hand", The Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1998 "Allegorical Re/Visions", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Joan Roebuck Gallery, Lafayette, CA
1996 Weingart Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
1995 Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 "Visual Fictions, Sensory Deceits", Fresno City College, Fresno, CA
1994 "The Game Show", Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1992 "The Allure of Illusion: Trompe L'oeil in Contemporary Painting", Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
1987 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 "Selections from Ovsey Gallery", The College of Creative Studies Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
1986 "Fourteen Southern California Artists", Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
1986 "Uncovering the Past-Tribute and Parody", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1986 "Selected Works From Ovsey Gallery", Bank of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
1986 "Summer Group Exhibition", Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA
1986 "More Than Meets The Eye, The Art of Trompe L'oeil", Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
1986 "More Than Meets The Eye, The Art of Trompe L'oeil", Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
1985 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Dec.)
1985 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (July)
1985 "Art and Travel", San Francisco International Airport, CA
1985-84 "Contemporary Trompe L'oeil Painting and Sculpture", National Traveling Exhibition to Queens Museum, Flushing, NY, 1984-85,
1984 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
1984 Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
1984 Bellevue Art Center, Bellevue, WA
1984 The Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
1984 Boise Art Center, Boise, Idaho, 1983
1984 Neil G. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Japanese American Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA,1983
1982 "Group Effort", Neil G. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981 "Los Angeles Visual Arts Festival", Japanese American Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
1980 "New Talent", Allen Stone Gallery, New York, NY
1980 Group Show, Dobrick Gallery, Chicago, IL
1980 "Reality of Illusion", National Traveling Exhibition:
1980 Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HA
1980 Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1980 University Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin, TX
1980 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1980 Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
1980 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1976 Palos Verdes Museum of Art, Palos Verdes, CA, Two Person Show
1974 "The Uses of Realism", University of California, Riverside, CA
1973 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Four Person Show
1971 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Faculty Exhibition
1971 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1971 Palos Verdes Museum of Art, Palos Verdes, CA, Three Person Show
1970 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Faculty Exhibition
1968 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Three Person Show
1968 "The Artist-Teacher U.S.A. Today", Inaugural Exhibition, State University of New York, Owego, NY