RON RIZK: Of Structure and Place
May 14 - June 18, 2022
ARTIST STATEMENT
I have a long held interest in architectural structures and their relationship to their placement in the landscape. My intention is to depict this relationship in ways that reflect my vision of how these elements interact in contrast to one another. In some cases, the structures are based on recollections of actual houses and industrial buildings from my youth. My paintings are devoid of human figures yet human activity is always implied.
BIOGRAPHY
Ron Rizk was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He received a diploma from the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA from the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana. He is a Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing at the University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts.
I have a long held interest in architectural structures and their relationship to their placement in the landscape. My intention is to depict this relationship in ways that reflect my vision of how these elements interact in contrast to one another. In some cases, the structures are based on recollections of actual houses and industrial buildings from my youth. My paintings are devoid of human figures yet human activity is always implied.
BIOGRAPHY
Ron Rizk was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He received a diploma from the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA from the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana. He is a Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing at the University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts.
RESUME
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Billis 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:
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
1981-85 "Contemporary Trompe L'oeil Painting and Sculpture", National Traveling Exhibition to:
Queens Museum, Flushing, NY, 1984-85,
Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA 1984
Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT, 1984
Bellevue Art Center, Bellevue, Washington, 1984
The Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 1983
Boise Art Center, Boise, Idaho, 1983
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
"Reality of Illusion", National Traveling Exhibition:
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO 1979
Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 1979
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
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
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Billis 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:
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
1981-85 "Contemporary Trompe L'oeil Painting and Sculpture", National Traveling Exhibition to:
Queens Museum, Flushing, NY, 1984-85,
Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA 1984
Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT, 1984
Bellevue Art Center, Bellevue, Washington, 1984
The Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 1983
Boise Art Center, Boise, Idaho, 1983
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
"Reality of Illusion", National Traveling Exhibition:
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO 1979
Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 1979
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
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
