Born 1949, Lubbock, Texas
EDUCATION
University of Wisconsin, Madison, MFA, 1975
Texas Tech University, BFA, 1971
University of the Americas, México D.F., 1969
SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2007 Susan Street Fine Art Gallery, Solana Beach, CA
2005 Burman Turner Projects, Santa Monica, Paintings
2005 Susan Street Fine Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
2004 William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, Paintings
2003 William Turmer Gallery, Santa Monica, Paintings
2003 Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA, Strange Attractions
2001 Modernism, San Francisco, Paintings and Works on Paper
1999 Sylvia White Gallery, New York, Paintings and Works on Paper
1999 The New Gallery, Nantucket, MA, Paintings and Works on Paper
1998 Modernism, San Francisco, Paintings and Works on Paper
1996 Modernism, San Francisco, Paintings and Works on Paper
1994 Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings
1994 Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA, Works on Paper
1990 Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, Paintings and Drawings
1986 Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, Paintings and Drawings
1986 Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, Vessels and Drawings
1985 Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1984 Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, Vessels and Drawings
1983 Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1983 Reynolds/Minor Gallery, Richmond, VA, Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1981 Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, Drawings and Sculpture
1980 Osuna Gallery, Washington, DC, Ceramic Vessels
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 Burman Turner Projects, Santa Monica, Paintings
2002 Group Show, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999 Selected Works, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
1999 Y2Khaos, Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art, Las Vegas
1998 The Horse: images of the horse in contemporary art,
1998 Sylvia White Gallery, Santa Monica and New York
1996 Collector’s Choice Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV
1995 Group Show, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica
1995 The Small Painting, O’Hara Gallery, New York
1994 The Art Cup, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles
1994 Group Show, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica
1994 To Enchant (Blue), McCallister Gallery/Bixler-Stacey Lee Gallery, New York
1993 Intimate Universe, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1993 Gallery Group Show, Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco
1993 Vessels: Painting and Sculpture, Patricia Correia Gallery, Venice, California
1993 Icons in Contemporary Art, California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA
1992 Group Show, Michael Walls Gallery, New York
1992 Group Show, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas
1992 Rituals of Tea, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles
1990 Group Show, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica
1988 Young Masters: Right off the Rack, Joy Moos Gallery, Miami
1987 The Current Landscape, Felicita Foundation, Escondido, California
1987 Gallery Artists, Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles
1986 Texans, Past and Present, University of Texas, San Antonio
1986 New Clay, Art Gallery, California State University, San Bernardino
1985 Recent Ceramic Sculpture, University Art Museum, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuqerque, NM
1984 Group Drawing Exhibition, Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
1984 Image/Vessel/Image, Garth Clark Gallery, New York
1983 Nocturne, Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York
1983 Tulip Time, Impressions Gallery, Boston
1982 Zeichnung Heute, Kunsthalle, Nurnberg, Germany
1982 Outdoor Sculpture/20 Sculptors, Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA
1981 Starry Night, Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York
1981 Group Show, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York
1981 Visiting Artist Exhibition, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco First National Bank, Minneapolis
Chemical Bank, New York J.P. Morgan Chase, New York
Prudential Insurance, Newark Exxon Mobil, Irving, TX
Booz, Allen & Hamilton, New York Federal Reserve Bank, Richmond, VA
General Electric, Fairfield, CT HBO, New York
Hotel Monaco, San Francisco Hotel Monaco, Seattle
Yokohama Royal Park Hotel, Japan The Ambassador Hotel, Taipei
The Imperial Hotel, Osaka The Sherwood Hotel, Taipei
MGM Grand, Las Vegas Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas
Southern California Gas Co., Los Angeles Global Crossing, Los Angeles
Hotel Argent, San Francisco David & Lucille Packard Foundation, CA
Capital One, Richmond, VA
AWARDS
Juror’s Award, Zeichnung Heute, Kunsthalle, Nurnberg, 1983
National Endowment for the Arts, Artists Fellowship, 1979
SELECTED ARTICLES , REVIEWS AND CATALOGS
Art Scene, Southern California, Vol. 14, No. 4, December 94 (Illustration).
Art Now Gallery Guide, West Coast, December, 1994 (Cover illustration, Yellow Days, and article with illustrations, Desert Rose and Violeta.
Las Vegas, USA!, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, 1994 (catalog) (color illustration: Chance).
McKenna, Kristine, “Galleries”, Los Angeles Times, May 30, 1986, Part IV (review).
Cohen, Ronny, “Image/Vessel/Image, The Art of Curtis Ripley”, Ceramic Arts, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 1984, p.3 (article) Garth Clark Gallery (il. Untitled drawing).
Klein, Ellen Lee, “Nocturne”, Arts, Vol 58 (3), Nov. 1983, p. 38 (review).
Russel, John, “Reviews”, New York Times, Jan 28, 1983, Section C, p.23.