Who we are

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Who we are *

ric conn

Ric is a New York based international award winning expressionist artist; creating paintings that reflect relevant social issues.

Ric has had many solo and group shows in Baltimore, Columbia, Annapolis, Frederick, Stevensville, and Centreville MD; Washington, D.C.; Manhattan and Chelsea, New York City, and Milan Italy.

He has been featured in articles in several newspapers, and magazines in the United States and Europe, including “Art Tour International Magazine,” "Art in America's issue on galleries and artists in America, Toscana Cultura Magazine in Italy and interviewed on podcasts, on television, both local and network.

Ric has been named "Master of Contemporary Art 2020, 2022, 2023," “Artist of the Decade 2010-2020,” and “Artivist (artist/activist) of the year 2019 and 2020 and Emerald Artivist 2021and 2022” by Art Tour International Magazine. Additionally he has been in their summer, autumn and winter issues (front and back cover artist), and in American Art Collector. He was awarded the Artist of the Future, Power of Creativity and Collector’s Vision International Art Awards by Contemporary Art Curator magazine. Ric has also been inducted into Who’s Who in America; being awarded their Humanitarian Award .

He recently won the Leonardo Da Vinci International art award; the Caravaggio International Art Award, the Olympic Art Award, the Best Modern and Contemporary Art Award and the International Prize for Artistic Value, and Man of the Year.

He has paintings in private collections throughout the United States and Australia.

Representation

Gallery Andrea, Scottsdale, Arizona

M.A.D.S. Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

Artists Statement

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Artists Statement *

Ric Conn Studios

Picasso said that art is not to adorn walls, it is a weapon—I follow his mantra

. I am an internationally acclaimed, award winning expressionist artist. I am using my work as a weapon.

My figurative work concerns the emotions that objects and events arouse within a person, reactions—positive or negative—especially the understanding of the self within the viewer. I deal with equality, and empowerment I believe in equality and I want my work to reflect that.

My abstract work is cerebral. my work is different—it is not conventional, or academic. I am inspired mostly by Toulouse-Lautrec, Edvard Munch, Picasso, Matisse and the German Expressionists.