Rick Dula
Education
1984 B.A. California State University at Hayward
Experience
1984 – 2001 Master Printer, Magnolia Editions,
Printed lithographs, etchings, and woodcuts for artists including: Peter Volkous, William Wiley, Sam Francis, Rupert Garcia, Joan Brown, Squeak Carnwath, Robert Arneson, Mark Stock, Guy Diehl, David Best, John Nava, Eric Zener
Selected Exhibitions
2007
Rick Dula, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
Rick Dula, William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO
2006
The Machine Age, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, CO
Summer Show, William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO
2005
Industrial Beauty, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Realism, William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO
2004
Industrial Beauty, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
15th National Print Exhibition, College of Notre Dame, Baltimore, MD
31st Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
27th Annual Art on Paper, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
13th National Art Exhibition, Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO
2003
Newer Genres: Twenty Years of the Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Prints U.S.A.2003, Springfield Art Museum, MO
Group show, William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO
Georgetown International Art Competition, Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC
Of Place and Time, William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO
2001
Rick Dula 16-Year Retrospective, Magnolia Editions, Oakland, CA
1998
Contents and Contexts: Lithography after 200 years,
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
The Urban Landscape, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA
Biennial Statewide Watercolor Competition, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
1997
Alumni Printmakers, Cal State University at Hayward, CA
California Prints from Wood, Collectors Gallery, Oakland Museum, CA
Biennial State Watercolor Competition, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Collections
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Pana Create Co. Ltd, Osaka, Japan
The David and Lucille Packard Foundation Collection
Dr. and Mrs. Dennis Power, Oakland, CA
Rutgers Archives, Zimmerli Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, OR
John Sperling, The Apollo Group, Phoenix, AZ
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
U.S. Department of State, Washington DC
Brad Feld, Boulder, CO
Publications
Landscapes of Colorado, Fresco Publications, 2007 (pages 118-120)
Rick Dula, Relics of a Lost Time, American Art Collector, November 2007
The Heirs to Sheeler, The American, November 2006
The Age of Industry, Southwest Art, September 2005
New American Paintings, volume 48, 2003 Western Competition
Introducing 25 New Artists, U.S. Art, May 2002
An Update on Water-based Printmaking, Watercolor, fall 1998
Rick Dula’s Street Scene Lithographs, American Artist, August 1998
Awards
2004 Honorable mention- 13th National Art Exhibition
2003 Purchase and cash awards-Prints U.S.A.
2003 Award- Paint our Town: Old, New, Now!
1998 Second Place – The Urban Landscape
1993 Best Print – 9th Biennial Drawing and Print Competition
Residencies
2005 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2004 Anchor Graphics, Chicago, IL
2003 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE
Representation
William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO
George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
Artist’s Statement
My current work focuses on a type of urban landscape, mostly in the run down and decaying vestiges of an earlier time. I like to visit cities and seek out the industrial edges, where either side of the train tracks is lined with factories and plants near death. Rust, ruins and abandonment are my roadside attractions, and I photograph (and later paint) these with an eye for dramatic light, often returning several times to catch the best mood. My fascination with corrosion reflects a particularly American longing for deeper history: we don’t have buildings older than a mere couple of centuries as does the rest of the Old World. I think this causes a sort of ‘patina envy’ in our culture.
One of my heroes is Charles Sheeler, whose early 20th century paintings of new massive industrial plants were like proud birth announcements for modern industry. My work is more that of the obituary. Although some of the factories and industrial plants are still in operation, I paint what seems to be vanishing from the modern urban landscape, and want to preserve some of the beauty before it is gone.