Gay Summer Rick

Gay Summer Rick is an Inglewood-based artist focused on creating urban and coastal atmospheric landscapes rendered with a keen sense of place, leaning toward abstraction. She applies veils of oil paint on canvas using palette knives revealing scenes often bathed in the luminosity of clear blue-white light or set aflame inside the warmth of a blood orange glow. Originally from New York, she studied at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and the University of Puget Sound in Washington. Her paintings have been exhibited in the US, Europe, and Japan. She has been featured in journals including American Art Collector, HYPERALLERGIC, ARTNOWLA, Artillery Magazine, and others, and in art books and exhibition catalogues. Her art and practice are the subject of short documentary films including “Iconic LA and the Urban Coast”, and “Follow the Sun". Rick’s paintings are in corporate and private collections around the world.