Richard Rappaport

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birthdate = 1944
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nationality = American
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Richard Rappaport, (born 1944 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American painter.

Biography

Rappaport received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the College of Fine Arts at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1966. In 1981 he received his Master of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College.

In 1968 he began what would be an almost three year sojourn in France. There he was awarded a residency at le Cité Internationale des Arts [ Le Cite Internationale des Arts [http://www.citedesartsparis.net/] .] . Moving to the East Village, Manhattan in New York City in 1973 and later to Brooklyn, in 1985 he returned to Pittsburgh.

Since 1981 Rappaport's use of the advertisement pages of international art magazines as a place of exhibition has been his principal form of public presence. This includes suites of full pages and spreads in successive issues of Art in America, Artforum, Flash Art, Bomb, Modern Painters, World Art, the New Criterion, and Limm magazine.

As a former student and friend of Robert Lepper [ Ask/Art, "Robert Lewis Lepper (1906 - 1991), "Ask/Art, the artist's bluebook (TM)" [http://www.askart.com/askart/l/robert_lewis_lepper/robert_lewis_lepper.aspx] .] [Carnegie Mellon University Archives, Staff and Faculty Papers, Lepper, Robert L., Papers – Series :IX Publications / correspondence "Richard Rappaport – FF 230-231". [http://www.library.cmu.edu/Research/Archives/UnivArchives/Lepper.html] , also from WorldCat [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25336396&referer=brief_results] . ] at Carnegie Tech, Rappaport, together with Andy Warhol, Philip Pearlstein, Mel Bochner, and Jonathan Borofsky is one of the artists influenced by Lepper’s course "Individual and Social Analysis" [Andy Warhol Museum, "Robert Lepper, Artist & Teacher," "PR release" [http://www.warhol.org/whats_on/pdfs/PR_Robert_Lepper_Artist_Teacher.pdf] .] .

In his work, even when taking the image to abstraction Rappaport has kept the icon figure as primal source. Besides portraiture of telling psychological depth, his work follows in the tradition of painting as acts of remembrance; whereby Rappaport borrows Christian iconography to represent the subjects of the Holocaust, the civil war in Biafra, and the war in Vietnam.

Richard Rappaport’s memoir, Portraits & Passages [Portraits & Passages: An artist's memoir [http://www.richard-rappaport.net/portraits_and_passages.html] ] , is an anthem to the great evolving tradition of painting, affirming the spiritual power inherent in painting as a form of communication that spans generations.

Awards and Exhibitions

1962 - Scholastic Art & Writing Awards [ National Scholastic Art & Writing Awards [http://www.artandwriting.org/index.htm] ] , the National Gold Medal in Drawing.

1966 - Solo Exhibition at Skibo hall, Carnegie Mellon University.

1967 - Solo Exhibition of the "Oratory Mural" at Skibo hall, Carnegie Mellon University.

1967 - Solo Exhibition at the University of Chicago - Livingston Studio Gallery, Chicago.

1967 - Installation of the "Oratory Mural" at the Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, Philadelpia [http://www.iahp.org/] .

1968 - the Chaloner Prize [ Chaloner Prize [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!220220!0] ] , as a finalist in the American Academy in Rome Prize Competition [American Academy in Rome [http://www.aarome.org/prize.htm] .] .

1969 - Solo exhibition at le Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris [Le Cite Internationale des Arts [http://www.citedesartsparis.net/] .] .

1970 - Group exhibition, Jeunes Artistes Americans" at le Centre cultural Americaine, Paris [ Service Americane d'information et des relations cultural, "Jeunes Artistes American", review of same, "Informations & Documents", 15 October 1969: 20] .

1974 - 1977 Installation - "Jacob in the Pit", "Jacob in Mourning", Public Theater, New York

1974 - Solo Exhibition - South Houston Gallery, SoHo, New York.

1976 - "Carnigie Mellon Alumni Show", West Broadway Gallery, SoHo, New York.

1982 - "29 Downing Street", New York City [ Judd Tully, "Richard Rappaport, 29 Downing St." review of same, "Flash Art International", no. 108 (Summer 1982).]

1983, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1991 - Solo exhibitions of paintings at the Blue Mountain Gallery, SoHo, New York City. [Blue Mountain Gallery [http://www.bluemountaingallery.org/] .] .

1995 - Solo exhibition at Magdalena Baxeras Galleria d'Arte, Barcelona

1997 - Group exhibition at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston.

2005 - "Ashes in the Wind: Works of Mourning", Garfield Artworks, Pittsburgh. [ "Works of Mourning," review of same, "The Jewish Chronicle" 3 February 2005 [http://www.pittchron.com/] .] .

2007 - Group exhibition, "Garden Show: In Full Bloom" Space Gallery, Pittsburgh.

References

External links

* [http://www.richard-rappaport.net/ Rappaport’s website]