Richard Rappaport

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Richard Rappaport in his studio in Vincennes, 1994

Richard Rappaport (born 1944 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania ) is an American painter.

Life

Rappaport studied art at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh (1966 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the College of Fine Arts). In 1981 he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College in New York. In 1968 Rappaport undertook extensive study trips through Europe ( Italy , Germany and France ) and lived for three years in Paris , where he resided in the Cité Internationale des Arts and for some time lived in a studio in the suburb of Vincennes . In 1973 he moved to the East Village , Manhattan , New York City and later to Brooklyn . In 1985 he returned to Pittsburgh. Since 1981, international art magazines such as Art in America , Artforum , Flash Art , Bomb , Modern Painters , or World Art have presented Rappaport's work. As a student and close friend of Robert Lepper at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Rappaport, along with Andy Warhol , Philip Pearlstein , Mel Bochner and Jonathan Borofsky, is one of the well-known painters who were influenced by Lepper's lectures on Individual and Social Analysis . Rappaport keeps returning to portrait painting. For Rappaport, painting as a creative act is always connected with memory and he often uses representations in abstraction that are reminiscent of Christian iconography.

1963 - Mrs. Ress

Exhibitions

  • 1962 - Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the National Gold Medal in Drawing.
  • 1966 - Solo Exhibition at Skibo hall, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • 1967 - Solo Exhibition of the "Oratory Mural" at Skibo hall, Carnegie Mellon University.
  • 1967 - Solo Exhibition at the University of Chicago - Livingston Studio Gallery, Chicago.
  • 1967 - Installation of the "Oratory Mural" at the Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, Philadelphia [13].
  • 1968 - the Chaloner Prize, as a finalist in the American Academy in Rome Prize Competition.
  • 1969 - Solo exhibition at le Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.
  • 1970 - Group exhibition, Jeunes Artistes Americans "at le Center cultural Americaine, Paris.
  • 1974 - 1977 Installation - "Jacob in the Pit", "Jacob in Mourning", Public Theater, New York
  • 1974 - Solo Exhibition - South Houston Gallery, SoHo, New York.
  • 1976 - Carnegie Mellon Alumni Show, West Broadway Gallery, SoHo, New York.
  • 1982 - "29 Downing Street", New York City
  • 1983, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1991 - Solo exhibitions of paintings at the Blue Mountain Gallery, SoHo, New York City.
  • 1995 - Solo exhibition at Magdalena Baxeras Galleria d'Arte, Barcelona
  • 1997 - Group exhibition at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston.
  • 2005 - Ashes in the Wind: Works of Mourning, Garfield Artworks, Pittsburgh.
  • 2007 - Group exhibition, "Garden Show: In Full Bloom" Space Gallery, Pittsburgh.

Web links

Commons : Richard Rappaport  - album with pictures, videos and audio files