Rick Fleury

"On the threshold of prominence"

About the artist: Born and raised in Massachusetts, Rick Fleury has been painting coastal landscapes of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Maine for more than ten years. A self-taught artist, his work has appeared in many Cape Cod shows and galleries as well as in juried shows in Cambridge, Boston and Florida. He has been a year-round resident of Cape Cod since the winter of 1997. Fleury is a 1982 graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder,School of Journalism and Mass Communications. He now lives and works in Wellfleet. He is currently painting in his new studio in Main Street Mercantile, Studio 14, in Eastham.

Recent and current exhibitions: Rick is currently a featured artist in a very successful show at Diana Levine's gallery. Many of the paintings on this website are displaying in this show. Please feel free to contact us for details about this show.

His work was recently included in an exhibition of New Additions to the Permanent Collection in the new wing of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. He was recently featured in a solo exhibition at the Cape Cod Museum of Art through June 25, 2006, then opened his new Rick Fleury Studio and Gallery "...In the Heart of NoCo," in Provincetown, June 30, 2006. The artist was also recently featured in a one-week solo exhibition a the Old Selectmen’s Building in Barnstable, Labor Day, 2006.

On My Current Work: “I'm reaching for the spiritual experience of the landscape.The landscape in its purest form --of simplicity and complexity,as it is, and as it was, undisturbed and uninterrupted by man.”
Spring, '06

“As my direction in painting continues to change, I find myself drawn ever closer to the structure and simplicity of the landscape. I continue to look to simplify my approach --both in what I see, and what I choose to capture in paint -- while at the same time, to reach for more complex challenges in terms of scale and composition, content and emotion.”
Spring, '05

Artist's Statement: My aim in painting has always been to capture the most exact interpretation of a moment in time, so that thatmoment may be revisited over and over again. I am not drawn to the abstraction of such moments as much as I am to capturing the essence of their beauty through the gesture of a brushstroke: the rare light as it moves across a meadow, or the shadows or reflections it leaves behind; the subtle variations of color as they change with the seasons or time of day; the movement of grasses or sands as they move with the forces of nature or man; the solitude of a wandering low tide or a sunsetting for what seems to be a last time. I find, in working, as I move between watercolor and oil, last year and this, yesterday, today and tomorrow, I am constantly looking to simplify this interpretation, both in what I see and what I choose to capture in paint. For it is in the simplest of gestures that the truest points can be made.

Recent, Current and Upcoming Exhibitions:

• Solo Exhbition, Diana Levine, Fine Art
  Boston Design Center, Boston, Massachusetts
  Current
• Currently showing in a group exhibition called "When We Were Younger -- A Major Exhibition of Over 40 Cape Cod Artists" Presented by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, Massachusetts - January 6 - January 28, 2007
• Solo Exhibition Cape Cod Museum of Art Dennis, Massachusetts May 13 - June 25, 2006
• Solo Exhibition Rick Fleury Studio & Gallery Provincetown, Massachusetts, Summer, 2006
• Solo Exhibition Barnstable Old Selectmen’s Building Barnstable, Massachusetts August 29 - Sept. 4, 2006

• 1995 Group Juried Exhibition Anna Maria Artists Guild, Holmes Beach, Florida
• 1995 Represented Artist Kennedy Studios, Sarasota, Florida
• 1996 Solo Exhibition The Living Center, Boston
• 1996 New England Watercolor Society North American Open Show, Federal Reserve Bank, Boston
• 1997 Group Juried Exhibition, Cambridge Artist Cooperative, Cambridge
• 1998-1999 Represented Artist, Charles-Baltivik Gallery, Provincetown
• 2000-2001 Represented Artist, Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown
• 2002-2003 Featured Artist The Gallery at Beachfront, Provincetown
• 2003 Artist Project Participant Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown
• 2004 Offices of Dr. James McDermott Copley Square, Boston
• 2004 Gallery Artist Thanassi Gallery, Provincetown
• 2004 Artist Project Participant Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown
• 2004 Dukes County Savings Bank Chilmark, Martha’s Vineyard
• 2004 Solo Exhibition Provincetown Chamber of Commerce
• 2005 Works on Copper Left Bank Gallery, Wellfleet
• 2005 Works on Copper, Solo Exhibition Blue Hill Bay Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine
• 2006 New Additions to the Permanent Collection Provincetown Art Association and Museum

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