"Stupid Dog" Painting

Randy Richard Morales, known professionally as Creative Vice, is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, ceramics, printmaking, and installation. His practice explores inner dialogue, emotional tension, and the quiet negotiations between vulnerability and control that shape how people move through the world. Morales’ work is rooted in lived experience. Raised between Arizona and Washington and later serving in the U.S. Navy, he brings a disciplined, systems-based mindset to a deeply introspective body of work. After transitioning from a career in fashion design, where he worked in high-pressure commercial environments, his artistic practice became a way to slow down decision-making and return to authorship, intention, and material honesty. At the center of his practice is Inner Demons, an ongoing body of work that uses recurring figures, symbols, and forms to externalize the internal voice—confidence, doubt, intuition, and fear—without prescribing meaning. Rather than offering clear narratives, Morales creates space for viewers to project their own internal experiences onto the work. The goal is not explanation, but recognition. His materials are deliberately accessible: acrylic paint, clay, paper, found objects. This choice reflects a belief that emotional clarity matters more than preciousness. Repetition, variation, and subtle imperfection are central to his process, allowing each work to feel both intentional and human. Morales is currently based in New York City and is enrolled in the Certificate Program at the Art Students League of New York. His work has been exhibited in Los Angeles and New York, and he continues to develop new bodies of work that expand the conversation between personal experience and shared emotional language. Through his art, Morales invites viewers to pause, reflect, and confront their own inner dialogue—offering work that is not decorative, but present; not didactic, but resonant.