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Rick Fleury
"On the threshold of prominence"
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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.
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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
Selected Exhibitions:
- 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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