Randy Richard Morales

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. Thi...

Art Students League of New York
Certificate Program, Painting & Drawing
New York, NY
2025–Present

Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM)
Fashion Design
Los Angeles, CA

AD Exhibition
Group Exhibition
New York City, NY
2025

Artspace Warehouse
Group Exhibition
Los Angeles, CA
2024

Toy Bin Art
Group Exhibition
Los Angeles, CA
2024