- Membership Level:
- Exhibiting
- Member Category:
- Artist
- Arts Media:
- Assemblage
- Collage
- Drawing
- Mixed Media
- Painting
About Richard Christian
ARTIST’S STATEMENT Richard W. Christian II 716-864-3124 richard@richardwchristian.com While I use world mythologies and classical literature as a source for imagery in my work, I am not interested in storytelling in a literal sense. Rather, these familiar stories from my childhood serve as a starting point and an armature upon which I can build as I formally search for what I need as an artist, and as a conduit to deeper passages within myself.
Education
1994- 96 Long Island University (C.W. Post College), Brookville, NY.
M.F.A. Painting/Drawing, May 1996 (with additional coursework and experience in Art Therapy), GPA- 3.96
1986- 91 Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY.
B.F.A. Painting, August 1991, GPA- 3.36 (Additional studies in mathematics and chemistry up to and including Organic Chemistry in 1998-2001)
Awards
2020 BSA Trustee Award (Gold Medal), 124th Annual Catalogue Exhibition.
2017 Second Place, Western New York Artists Group 26th Annual Juried Exhibition.
Publications
Creative Spaces, the Western New York Artists Studio Project
Written by Richard W. Christian and Steve H. Siegel
Photography by Steve H. Siegel
Book design by Mark D. Donnelly, Ph.D.
RPSS- Rock Paper (Safety) Scissors Publishing
Hardcover: ISBN 978-0-9908997-4-7
Perfect Bound: ISBN 978-0-9977996-5-1