Smokey Bear, Paradise, CA USA

Richard Ripley

SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2018 to present

Professor Emeritus, Art Department, Victor Valley College, Victorville, CA

1997 – 2018

Professor of Art, Art Department, Victor Valley College, Victorville, CA

1995

Interpreter, Department of Parks and Recreation, State of California, Malibu, CA

1991 – 1998

Environmental Educator, Santa Monica College, WILD HIKES, Santa Monica, CA

SELECTED EXHIBITS

ONE-PERSON SHOWS:

Artifact, Environmental installation, Evans Dry Lake, Victorville, CA, 1999

Happy World, Upstairs Gallery, Ventura, CA, 1998

Richard Ripley, Sculpture and Drawings, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1986

GROUP SHOWS:

Faculty Art Show, Victor Valley College, Victorville, CA, 2023-2024

Fall Art Show, Cypress Gallery, Lompoc, CA, 2023

For Roland, Bunny Gunner Gallery, Pomona, CA, 2010

Digital Exhibition, Asian Fusion Gallery, Asian Cultural Center, New York, NY, 2007

Silent Auction Benefit – Action Committee for Women in Prison, Los Angeles, CA, 2006

Faculty Art Show, Victor Valley College, Victorville, CA, 2006

Honoring Our Mothers, Victor Valley College, Victorville, CA, 2004

They Came from Beyond, Malibu Art Ranch, Malibu, CA, 1996

Get Back, Kohn-Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1995

Annual Juried Exhibition, Riviera Fine Arts Center, Santa Barbara, CA, 1994

The Phantom of the Armory, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, 1993

REVIEWS/INTERVIEW:

Los Angeles Times, Wonder Years, Josef Woodard, 1998

KCRW FM, Arts LA, Santa Monica, CA ,1986

Los Angeles Times, The Galleries-La Cienega Area, Kristine McKenna, 1985

ArtWeek, A Conjunction of Opposites, Marge Bulmer, 1985

GUEST LECTURER

UCLA Extension, Los Angeles, CA, The Art of Collecting Art, 1985–1990

Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA, Sculpture Colloquium, 1986

Ventura College, Ventura, CA, Current Work, 1986

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Current Work, 1985

Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA, Current Work, 1985

EDUCATION

Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 1980

Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture

Kenyon College, Gambier, OH 1972

Bachelor of Arts, Sculpture, Cum Laude with distinction in Art