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TUNKEL, RICK

Rick Tunkel is a New York City born, mid-career artist. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Art degree in painting and printmaking from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He also received a Master of Science degree, working in mixed medium, from the University of Tennessee and the Arrowmont School of Art and Craft in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Art became an interest early on as a result of growing up with a mother who was a painter who worked at the United Nations, and a father who was a craftsman who worked for the New York City Fire Department. The family moved to Florida where the environment became a strong factor in the development of his artistic senses. Spending a good deal of time at the Ringling Fine Museum of Art and later taking art classes there further influenced his direction. However, it was living in the Azores for a year and a half, surrounded by local Portuguese art and crafts, that ultimately influenced his current sense of color. He worked primarily as a printmaker during the eighties and was represented by Circle Fine Art, a New York City art dealer. However, he soon became involved in making paper as art. For the next fifteen years, his work appeared at national events such as the annual American Crafts Council event held in Baltimore, Maryland and the hundred or so galleries that showed his work. During this time, he also did group shows as far flung as Los Angeles to Finland. Throughout the nineties, he developed a portfolio of abstract expressionist prints. This process brought him full circle to painting and the art he is producing today. The question most often asked about my paintings is where do they come from? The answer for me is that they come from the everyday and what is seen in it. The bright red sports car is realistic, yet you look closely at the chrome, and you find things that aren't. I take the chrome and structure it with the red and an image emerges. Artists have always been influenced by the stain, paint on the floor of the studio, reflections and seeing what others have left behind. For myself, my work, even though referred to as abstract, is only a matter of seeing what is there and not an abstracted image. Color is fairly evolutionary. What one color does next to another is a matter of experiencing and growing in their sophistication os use. In my work, color is about emotion and the vibrance of life. There are subtleties, of course, but like life, it isn't going to go unnoticed. With regards to influences, Expressionism has played a large role, especially that of the German Expressionists, Der Blaue Reiter and the Colour-Field Expressionists.