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You are invited to attend:
Rick Stich: Water Mirrors
June 5th though August 3rd, 2008
A highly regarded mid-career painter, Rick Stich is well known for his abstract
impressions of reflections on water. This exhibition, entitled Water Mirrors, is
drawn from these illusionist forms and patterns seen both below and above the
water. The artist has studied these movements and reflections of light on liquid for
over 30 years.
Because of his longstanding interest in the interplay of light, water, and
landscape, Stich uses paint to explore mankind’s relationship with the elements.
With vivid color, he investigates the symbolic, fluid, and reflective nature of water
with large-format abstract paintings.
In depicting the surface of water, the artist also explores the surfaces of a
painting. The likenesses between the surface of the painting and the surface of
the water are similar, and the two work off one another in his pieces.
Rick Stiches paintings can appear entirely abstract. With swirling, gestural
brushstrokes, the artist’s technique recounts the Abstract Expressionist painters.
Ultimately, color is the method by which Stich expresses the intermingling of light,
reflection, and the atmospheric effects of the sea. Still, the artist remains
decidedly interested in the subject as much as the technique. His paintings are
influenced by the poetry of water. He is interested in conveying the relationship,
interaction, and ultimate inner-connectedness between humans and the natural
world.
Water Mirrors is Rick Stiches first exhibition with ECAA, and it draws upon the
artist’s 30-year career of exhibiting professionally in Southern California. He has
had solo exhibitions at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa
Barbara Museum of Art, L.A. Louver Gallery, and Ruth Shaffner Gallery.
Concurrent with Water Mirrors, his work will also be featured in a group show
entitled, Surf Inspired, at the Carnegie Museum in Oxnard from June 7th though
August 24, 2008. His paintings are held in numerous private and corporate
collections including Bank of America, Eli Broad Foundation, and the Santa
Barbara Museum of Art.
Click here to see gallery tour by Gary Lang
on YouTube
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