Hope M Ricciardi artist

Artist Statement & Resume

    After working for 30 years in the arts as a designer, teacher and administrator, I have returned to the business of painting. The majority of my work is oil on canvas or panel. I work with a combination of knife and brush, focusing on personal imagery: people I know and places I have visited.
   Recently, I have launched a new body of work, Nostalgia Series, inspired by the photos of Dr. Lester Reiss. His son, David Reiss, created the film, HOPE: Then & Now, which is based on my career as an artist and our shared admiration for his father. Lester was a brilliant philosophy professor with a talent for elegant black and white photography. Influenced by these nostalgic images, I am using a limited palette to represent the photos of the 1960’s and 70’s era. Underpainting in a contrasting color gives a luminous energy to the surface. The body of work includes family members, abstractions of nature and architecture, and landscapes of Connecticut College, where Lester lived and worked. Also inspired by Lester's images, Oil on Plaster Abstracts are oil paintings on plaster, carved and built-up with sculptural texture, then painted with oils.
    Family Series is a body of work inspired by very old photographs of people. These are commissioned works that morph personal images, often worn from age, into oil paintings.
    I work in my studio at Joy Street, Somerville, a space shared with painter, Lynda Michaud Cutrell.

Hope M Ricciardi

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Selected Solo Exhibits:
2009                 Medicine Wheel Gallery, Boston, Ma, “Celestial Bodies”

Selected Group Exhibits:
2010                 Galatea Gallery, Boston, MA, "Summer Members Show"
2010                 Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, "Red-Hooked"
2010                 Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, "Nailed"
2010                 State House, Boston, MA, "Violence Transformed"
2010                 Roxbury Community College, Boston, MA, "Violence Transformed"
2010                 Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA
2010                 Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, "Wide Open"
2009               Galatea Gallery, Boston, MA, "Member Exhibit"
2008                 SMFA, Boston, "Inside Out"
2008                 GASP Gallery, Brookline, MA, "Frictions"

Gallery Affiliations:
2009-pres         Galatea Gallery, Boston, MA
2010-pres         Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Red Hook, NYC
2009-pres         Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

Education:         BFA    Tufts University, Medford, MA
                                      School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Selected Employment:
2009 - pres       Walnut Hill School, Director/teacher of Summer Visual Art
2005-2007         Walnut Hill School, Natick, MA, Assist. Dean of Admission & Placement
1988-2006         Peach Tree Gallery, Franklin, MA, owner/operator/teacher

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