Nearly Night XI Painting

There’s a quiet vibration and unexpected beauty in commonplace elements found in the urban environment. My work describes this in an atmospheric and dreamlike yet familiar manner. – Gay Summer Rick Gay Summer Rick is a Malibu-based artist whose practice is focused on creating urban and coastal atmospheric landscapes rendered with a keen sense of place, leaning toward abstraction. She applies veils of oil paint on canvas using palette knives to reveal scenes often bathed in the luminosity of clear blue white light or set aflame inside the warmth of a blood orange glow. A resident of Southern California for over 25 years, the artist maintains studios in Malibu and Inglewood, California.