ABOUT GREGORY RICK
Gregory Rick was born in 1981 and grew up in South Minneapolis, Minnesota. He received his BFA from California College of the Arts in 2019 and graduated from Stanford University with an MFA in Art Practice in 2022. Developing a historical imagination and fondness for drawing stories, Rick collapses history while confronting personal trauma. His works exist as reflections of his personal experience, while in dialogue with the wider world. Rick has received the Combat Infantry Badge, the Yamaguchi print making award, the Nathan Oliviera fellowship, and the Jack K. and Gertrude Murphy Award and has exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States.
Rick’s work comes from my personal experience but is not entirely personal. Where myth gives voice to the underbelly, the lumpen in tandem displaying the familiar and grandiose. His work tethers together seemingly opposing ideas as he teether’s between the personal, the historical and the political. He paints on a shaky historical line cemented in humility and conviction and occupies his pictures with characters who serve as archetypes in conjunction memory and self-exploration reflecting on the absurdness and monumentality of history.