Rick is invited to the University of Southern Utah next week as Eccles Visiting Scholar. If you are anywhere near join us for free lecture and presentation with Rick Berry, courtesy of USU! For more information about week’s events please contact Assist Prof Ron Spears or the university. spears@charter.net
Eccles Visiting Scholar
Rick Berry painting brings in highest sale at silent art auction!
100% proceeds benefit INVISIBLE CHILDREN charity!
Thank you bidders and all who will consider donating to this important cause. Happy Holidays from Sheila and Rick and our daughter and the other member’s of her high school who use this auction to help others. 
“Rumour” by Rick Berry © 2011, is an original oil painting on gessoed museum board, 5 x 7” (wood frame 7.5” x 9”) Bidding for this painting is open at just $60! to benefit Invisible Childrens Project.
HAND + HEART Charity Auction features work by several community artists, Buckingham Brown & Nichols high school art faculty and their students to raise money for 4 IMPORTANT charities selected by the students. The silent auction is ongoing by email ltangusso@bbns.org or in person until the Closing Reception this Friday when you can speak with some of the artists and place final bids.
HAND + HEART Closing Reception 3 -7pm this Friday, Dec. 9th.
BB&N Upper School Gallery is free, open to all, and wheelchair accessible.
80 Gerry’s Landing Road, Cambridge MA 02138 617-547-6100 (main office)
Rick Berry will donate 100% proceeds of his sale to INVISIBLE CHILDREN PROJECT. Our daughter and other students at BB&N, learned about how this project works to expand the radio tower early warning network in central Africa (esp Congo). These towers provide a desperately needed warning to villages when the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) are on the move. LRA massacre families in rural African villages and abduct children forcing them to be members of LRA—training them to kill others for their own survival. Our daughter feels very strongly about the importance of their work and will continue to donate her time and talents to help. She talked to Rick about this and together they selected this painting to offer for auction.
I hope you will consider bidding for this lovely jewel and help those families. The bidding is beginning low to give students a chance to start personal collections but the goal is raise as much as possible to help INVISIBLE CHILDREN project.
If you are in the area, please come in to see ALL the wonderful work for auction and hear about the other charities. Thank you! Sheila, Rick and KL
PS If unable to reach the school for any reason, or if you prefer, you can place bids with me by email and the time stamp will determine the winner. Thanks, sheilaberry@braid.com
13Forest Gallery has just acquired Rick’s painting “Rueben” to replace “Hadassah”, sold the first weekend their group show, Plenty, opened. (Thank you, mysterious new collector – we shall connect soon) ”Rueben” is now on view -
Oil on archival canvas board, 13½” x 13½” framed;
Special holiday price – $600
Contact marc@13FOREST.com 781-641-3333
“Reuben” — Berry©2011
And just to remind those in the Boston area – stop by for 13Forest Gallery’s Dec. 15th annual Party. Hope to see you there! Sheila and Rick
Just a reminder – Rick hosts BFAC modeling sessions on Monday nights at his Medford MA studio. If he’s not busy on a painting project, he sketches as well.
Lately, he’s experimenting with enhancing the ballpoint pen sketches.
Hope you enjoy them, Sheila
“Hadassah” is up at 13Forest Gallery in their 4th Annual “PLENTY” exhibition of selected regional artists. If you’re in the Boston area, we hope you’ll join us at the Holiday party 12/15—
Contact marc@13FOREST.com 781-641-3333
Hadassah, 11″ x 14″, graphite and oil on gessoed panel, Framed 16″ x 19″
Curated by Rick Berry and Damon Lehrer, NATIONAL FIGURES opened with a packed reception at William Scott Gallery, Boston, this month.
“This show has some pieces that buzz with smart composition and emotional truth… Cate McQuaid wrote about NATIONAL FIGURES in her Oct 18th, Boston Globe.com review “Dreams, the bizarre, a gaze.”
…Look out for Paul Goodnight’s electric “Movement,” a drawing that conveys swinging, gyrating dance as much as it does the dancer. Anne Harris’s pieces are always pristine and creepy, like her “Untitled Blonde,” a woman with golden teary eyes beneath a spray of blunt-cut curls. Isaac White’s “Woman in Room” is made with brusque slashes of paint that splinter into one another. Figure works like White’s and Harris’s remind us of how hard it can be to be human.”
Open Wed– Sat, 12-5 pm Free Parking from Albany St. On view until October 29th, we hope you’ll visit and add your comments!
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“Rick Berry did four paintings throughout the afternoon in his unplanned improv method — scribbling with the paint and lifting highlights until he found direction in the act of painting. Rick, as usual, was as inspiring as a speaker as he was a painter.” Irene Gallo writing about ART OUT LOUD 7 at Museum of American Illustration, Sept 24, 2011.
See full story and photos at TOR about this Benefit for Student Scholarships sponsored by Society of Illustrators. Click facebook button on right for photos of Rick painting, courtesy of Melannie Montenegro, Album – Sept 24, 2011
Comparing Rick Berry’s expressionist paintings with Damon Lehrer’s exquisitely rendered, classical, and contemplative work made me wonder about the expressionist style in general. By this I mean that artistic terrain where the passions, vehemence, or ferocity of the artist so colors the work as to form a powerful but distorting more…
This show brilliantly contrasts two artists, Damon Lehrer and Rick Berry, and the wildly different ways they approach figurative painting.
(For the questions that the artists have for each other see Damon Lehrer’s interview of Rick Berry.)
It Figures. At the William Scott Gallery, 450 Harrison Avenue, #65, Boston, MA. Until September 30
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