RICK PARK,
ARTIST
Paintings, drawings, and sculpture
by Rick (Eric) Park
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"Obama Can" acrylic paint on a corrugated vegetable can. It's 12" tall and about 8" wide. Click on photo for another view of Obama Can. c. 2008. |
"La
Rosita"
acrylic
painting is 18" x 22". "La Rosita"
is an interpretation of an old sheet music cover and is a cool piece
of tango music for the piano. c 1997. Click on photo for larger view.
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| SOLD! "Last Days of the One Lane Bridge" is 11" x 16", plus fancy vintage frame, bringing it to a little over 19" x 24". Accompanied by a framed parchment copy of the poem of the same name and a photo of the original one lane bridge. Painting is in the collection of Cathy Rohm of Greenwood, CA, who is also the owner of "Patriotic Toothbrushes". c.2004. Click on photo for larger view. | "River Otter"
is 16" x 20" plus a fancy vintage frame which brings it to 24" x 28". c. 2005. Click on photo for larger view. |
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"Perishable
Fruit" acrylic painting is about
16" x 20" with "antiqued" vintage frame. Portrait of Patty Larkin,
award-winning Cambridge musician, formerly one-half of "Park &
Larkin," Oregon folk duo, c. '72-'74. Acrylic study of album cover and
touring poster. c. 2000. Click on photo for larger view. |
"Josie at the Columbian" ("femme au chapeau") acrylic painting is 11" x 15". Portrait of community organizer Josie Peper, Astoria, OR, c. 2003. Click on photo on for larger view. |
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| "Vermilion
Flycatcher" acrylic painting is 15" x 11.5". c. 2003. Click
on photo
for larger view. |
"Black-Tailed
Prairie Dog" acrylic painting is 11.5" x 15". c. 2003.
Click on
photo
for larger view. |
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Rick completed his first-ever oil painting in January 2010, a simple front view of the Wagner House, in which there are the offices of KHSU radio. They were having a contest. Rick entered the painting and won a prize, but the main thing was to learn how to use oils. It was exhibited during Eureka Arts Alive! and a similar event in Crescent City. KHSU has scanned the painting and will sell prints of it to their listeners. Revised since this photo (he changed a perspective detail on the right-hand side of painting). c.2010. Click on photo for larger view. |
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| SOLD! "Tofu in LA" acrylic painting is 15" x 18". This painting is a portrait of Tiffany Young at age 9. The background is inspired by Bonnie Raitt's second album, showing the waiting room at the LA train station near Hollywood. This painting is in the collection of artist Ajit Chauhan. Click on photo for larger view. | SOLD! "Mlle Gachet nue au piano"("Mademoiselle Gachet Nude at the Piano") acrylic painting is 13" x 16". Painting is based on Vincent Van Gogh's Mme Gachet painting. Gachet was Van Gogh's doctor, and in the portrait of his wife, Van Gogh portrayed her in a long white dress. This pianist is based on a life-drawing model in the same pose. This painting is in the collection of artist Ajit Chauhan who has been featured in a solo exhibit at Jack Hansel Gallery in New York, and has concluded his third exhibit of fine ink drawings at Adobe Gallery in SF. Click on photo for larger view. |
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| SOLD! "Astoria West" acrylic on canvas painting is 13" x 16". Painting is view of harbor at Astoria overlooking the mouth of Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean. This painting is in the collection of Suzanne Fox, who is one of the Sonettes from the Shakespeare album. Click on photo for larger view. | SOLD! "Patriotic Toothbrushes" acrylic painting is 15" x 18". This painting was exhibited at Haight-Ashbury Library's "40 Summers of Love 'n Haight" Art Exhibit. This painting is in the collection of Rick's longtime friend, Cathy Rohm. |
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SOLD! "Rooftops of Paris" acrylic painting is 11" x 15". This painting is in the collection of Lee Poague, who wrote the music for "Mistress Mine" on Shakespeare album. |
SOLD! "Amsterdam bij nacht" ("Amsterdam by Night") acrylic painting is 8" x 12". This painting is in the collection of Donna Hyatt, who is one of the Sonettes from the Shakespeare album. |
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SOLD! "John Donaldson as Dr. Gachet" 2005 acrylic painting is 18" x 22". This painting is in the collection of John's Donaldson brother, Tom, a philosophy professor at University of Pennsylvania. Click on photo for larger view. |
SOLD! "Garter Snake on Maple Leaves" acrylic painting is 13" x 16". This painting won 1st prize at Trinity County Fair 2004 and is in the collection of Ken Terrill, director of Buddy Brown Blues Festival in Blue Lake, CA. Click on photo for larger view. |
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"Proof of
Evolution III: Triceratops Horns Fossil"
sculpture/construction. About 12" x 12' x 8". A driftwood tree-root and
part of the "faux fossils" theme, from the
Jurassic Period, "compressed by massive geological forces" into a
three-horned piece. Click on photo for larger
view. |
"Spring"
sculpture/construction. 20.5" tall including bird. Consists of recycled
materials, in this
case a flower pot, a truck spring, a lazy susan plate, and a "beanie"
robin. Previously exhibited at Main Street Gallery in
Weaverville. Click on photo for
larger view. |
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Sculpture not
pictured: "Disproof of
Evolution: Petrified War Ribbon" unearthed near the cave
paintings of South Central France, aged 25-30,000 years, proof that
this species, at least, has not evolved much since pre-historic
times. Iron band folded more or less like today's yellow or pink
ribbons. About 3" high in a 10" square wooden frame. "Ghost Surfer," two pieces of Lake Tahoe-area gnarled rootwood scraps conjoined into a headless figure, mounted on antique trophy plaque. About 24" high but rises at a slant. |
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