Ric Conn
Website: https://www.ricconn.com/
Country: United States
I am an internationally known award winning expressionist artist; inspired mostly by Toulouse-Lautrec, Edvard Munch, Picasso, Matisse and the German Expressionists. My work is Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment I have been inducted in the “Who’s Who in America,” received the Humanitarian Award, I have been listed as the artist of the exhibition for the 2023 Cannes Film Festival I have been named “Top 60 Masters of Contemporary Art for 2020, 2022, 2023” “Artist of the Decade 2010-2020,” and “Artivist of the year ” I won the “Face of Queen Anne’s County” medal for one of my oil paintings. My awards also include First, Second, Third and Best in Show awards as well as numerous Honorable mention awards and Award of Merit certificates. I have been featured in articles in several newspapers, and magazines, including “Art in America’s issue on galleries and artists in America,” and interviewed on television, both local and network. I have had solo and group shows in Baltimore, Columbia, Annapolis, Frederick, Stevensville, and Centreville MD; Washington, D.C.; Manhattan and Chelsea, New York City. I teach painting and drawing workshops in local schools, arts councils, an environmental center, and private lessons in my studio. I have also given portrait drawing demonstrations. I have paintings in private collections in several states and Australia. I am represented by the Grimandi Art Gallery, New York and M.A.D.S. Gallery in Milan, Italy