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