Richard Tullis

After years of facilitating artistic collaborations with other artists, helping them create works on paper, I decided to concentrate on my own art and projects full time in 2005.

University of California, Davis
BA, Fine Art, Photography
1982 – 1984
Explored experimental darkroom techniques during independent studies with photography professor Harvey Himmlefarb.
Studied ceramic sculpture with Robert Arneson.
Worked as a photographer at Experimental Printmaking and as a printmaker and photographer Garner Tullis Workshop.
Photographed artists Peter Voulkos, Sam Francis, Kenneth Noland, Roy DeForest, Red Grooms, Italo Scanga, Beverly Pepper, Frieden Dzubas, Yvonne Jaquette and other influential artists of the time working in studio.


Humboldt State University
Fine Art, Photography
1980 – 1982
Studied with nature photographer Thomas Joshua Cooper.
Learned the difference between looking and seeing through a camera along with the fundamentals of composition using small, medium and large format cameras.