About The Artist

Represented by Grimandi Gallery, New York Awards Art Tour International Magazine top 60 Master of Contemporary Art for 2020 Art Tour International Magazine Artivist of the Year, 2019 - for my dedication to Human Rights Art Tour International Magazine Artist of the Decade 2010-2020 ATIM Summer 2019, New York City Summer in the Arts, and Best of International Arts presents Ric Conn Artist. On July 31 I was interviewed on the Art2heart tv show in New York city. I am an internationally known award winning expressionist artist I am inspired mostly by Toulouse-Lautrec, Munch, Picasso, Matisse and the Expressionists. My work is different—it is not conventional, academic, or even the new modernism. I am creating a new avant-garde. I won the “Face of Queen Anne’s County” medal for one of my oil paintings. My awards also include First, Second, Third and Best in Show awards as well as numerous Honorable mention awards and Award of Merit certificates. I have been featured in articles in several newspapers, and magazines, including “Art in America’s” issue on galleries and artists in America, and interviewed on television, both local and network. I have had solo and group shows in Baltimore, Columbia, Annapolis, Frederick, Stevensville, and Centreville MD; Washington, D.C.; Kansas City MO, Orlando and Tampa Fla., Colorado and New York City, and an upcoming show in Florence Italy. I teach painting and drawing workshops in local schools, arts councils, an environmental center, and private lessons in my studio. I have also given portrait drawing demonstrations. I have paintings in private collections in several states and Australia. I studied at the Corcoran College of Art in Washington, D.C. and the Maryland Institute College of Art.