Rick Wolfryd

Born in Newport Beach, CA in 1953 --- Rick Wolfryd is a multi-dimensional artist & writer who has spent much of his lifetime developing his unique cultural vision and word craft outside of mainstream art experience. According to Carole Lieff, Santa Barbara-based art dealer and friend of the artist, "I have known Rick Wolfryd for almost 20 years. Rick has always been a maverick artist --- and art dealer; a renegade. Nothing has changed. He will not hew to many of the stale conventions ( and pretensions ) that seem to drive the art ( and literature ) markets. Rick creates his ‘Outsider Works’ empirically ( although he holds BS and MFA degrees ), while discovering new parts of himself and his art as he goes along. Recently, Rick has produced the finest creative works, I believe, of his lifetime . . . and it is honest, speculative work.”



Currently residing in Mexico City since Summer of 2009, Rick is working simultaneously on his fine art drawings, photography, poetry, and “digital and ideological reconstructions” ( terminology he uses to describe his most recent computer generated art work ). In 1998, Rick was Sotheby’s 8th largest client in the world for buying/selling/trading contemporary prints and --- to his credit --- Ric...

Bachelor of Science, Visual Arts, May 1974, Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois. Emphasis: Printmaking. Minor: Drawing. Major

Master of Fine Arts, Visual Arts, May 1978, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois. Emphasis: Printmaking. Minor: Drawing. Major

Steve Chase Awards ( Art Auction), benefiting Desert Aids Project, Palm Springs, California, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
PAWS ( Annual Art Auction ), benefiting PAWS Los Angeles, California 2006, 2007
"Digital Action Heroes in Paradise", One Person Show, Gallery Art, Aventura,
Florida February 2007
“Digital Action Heroes in Paradise,” One Person Show, Hamilton-Selway Fine Art,
Los Angeles, California January 2007
Printmaking Council of NJ, National Juried Show, Traveling Exhibition 1983
“Creation ’83,” Rockford College, Two Person Show, Rockford, Illinois
“Typographics,” One Person Show, Bushes, Chicago, Illinois, 1983
“Fantasy Factor 11,” One Person Show, Bushes, Chicago, Illinois, 1981
“Chicago Alternatives,” Paul Waggoner Gallery, Group Show, Chicago, Illinois,1981
Los Angeles Printmaking Society, National Juried Show ( Purchase Award ), Los Angeles, California, 1978.
Burpee Art Museum, Invitational Group Show, Rockford, Illinois, 1978
University of Wisconsin at River Falls, Invitational Show, River Falls, Wisconsin 1978
Mitchell Art Museum, Invitational Show, Mt. Vernon, Illinois, 1978
Freeport Art Museum, Freeport, Illinois, Invitational Show, 1978
Shreveport Art Museum, National Juried Show, Shreveport, Louisiana...