Wendy Mccauley Rifkin

Wendy McCauley Rifkin is a contemporary figurative painter. Her practice is inspired by the movement of the female body, and has evolved into gestural, abstract works from previous traditional realism paintings. The artist has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. She worked in New York as an illustrator for cosmetics companies, an art director for store catalogs, and a technical spec illustrator and presentation artist in the apparel industry. After moving to Los Angeles she was the owner and designer of an apparel company, Wendy McCauley, Inc., which was represented in stores across the country and overseas, as seen in Elle, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Women’s Wear Daily, The NY Times, Los Angeles Magazine, US Magazine, Seventeen, YM, Phillip Bloch’s Element of Style, and other publications. She then became a full-time mother and returned to her interest in drawing and painting, moving from a three dimensional focus in clothing on the body to a two dimensional form based on the miraculous female figure. Her portrait painting of Paulina Porizkova was published in Vogue Czechoslovakia in the May 2021 issue - the first time any of her work appeared in Vogue.
Her work is in several private collections in t...

Rhode Island School of Design

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 Lumber Yard Gallery, Group Show, Malibu, CA
2018 Sur Le Mur Gallery, “Female Form”, Two Person Exhibition, West Hollywood, CA
2018 Sur Le Mur Gallery, Design Week, West Hollywood, CA
2017 Sur Le Mur Gallery, “West Week” Group Show, West Hollywood, CA
2017 Sur Le Mur Gallery, “Maison D’ Art” Group Show, West Hollywood, CA
2016 Sur Le Mur Gallery at Bergamot Station, Group Show, Santa Monica, CA
2016 Sur Le Mur Gallery, “LAFW” Group Show, Hollywood, CA
2010 Gallery Godo Group Show, Glendale, CA
2010 Amor Fati Inaugural Release Group Show, Hollywood, CA
1983 Rhode Island School of Design Group Show, Providence, RI