About the Artist

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Born and raised in Massachusetts, Rick Fleury is devoting his professional life to painting coastal landscapes of New England – leaving behind successful careers as a journalist and a New York executive officer and creative director in advertising and public relations.

His minimalistic style of landscape is widely associated with Cape Cod, and gaining growing recognition nationally and internationally. He is an Artist Member of  the Copley Society of art, CoISo, the oldest non-profit art association in the United States, founded in Boston in 1879. He was admitted to the Copley Society in January of 2007. His work has been selected for numerous juried and invitational exhibitions with Copley, resulting in major awards and a near-sellout solo exhibition in 2008.

He has been a year-round artist on Cape Cod since February of 1997.

Fleury is a graduate of the

University of Colorado at Boulder.

 

His work has been featured in a 2006 solo exhibition at the

Cape Cod Museum of Art.

His work was also included in An Exhibition

from the Permanent Collection at the

Provincetown Art Association and Museum,

and in recent invitational exhibitions at the

Cahoon Museum of American Art,

The Cotuit Center for the Arts,

and

The Harvard Club of Boston.

His work is in the permanent collections of the

Cape Cod Museum of Art,

the Provincetown Art Association and Museum,

the Cahoon Museum of American Art

the Dana-Farber/Brigham & Women's

Cancer Center,  and other

corporate and private collections worldwide.

He has taught oil & landscape painting at the

Cape Cod Museum of Art,

the

Provincetown Art Association and Museum,

and through the

Copley Society of art.

 

He is exclusively represented on Cape Cod by

Addison Art Gallery,

Route 28 in Orleans,

in Boston at the

Copley Society of art,

158 Newbury Street,

and

Diana Levine Fine Art,

at The Boston Design Center

and

The Churchill Gallery

in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

 

He lives and works in Eastham, Massachusetts,

with his collie, Graham.

 

 

   

  Photo: Dan Cutrona for Cape Cod Life

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                     

    

Artist Statement

 

"I strive to portray the landscape in its purest form. I am drawn to the essence of a moment’s beauty: the rare light as it moves across a meadow, the shadows or reflections it leaves behind; the subtle variations of color as they change with the seasons and time of day;

the movement of grasses, water and sand;

the solitude of a wandering low tide."

                               

                                    

           

            Photo: Dan Cutrona

 

          

        Permanent Collections

         

           Cape Cod Museum of Art

           Dennis, Massachusetts

           Provincetown Art Asscociation and Museum

           Provincetown, Massachusetts

        Cahoon Museum of American Art

           Cotuit, Massachusetts

           Ritz-Carlton, Dallas/Marriot Corporation

           Dallas, Texas

           Bessemer Trust

           Boston, Massachusetts 

   

        Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

           Boston, Massachusetts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

          

 

 

       

 

     

       Selected Exhibitions

       "Oil & Water, 2010"

          Two-Person Show with Elizabeth Pratt, Copley Master

          May/June, 2010

          Addison Art Gallery

          Orleans, Massachusetts

       Copley Society of art

          Fresh Paint, 2007 - 2010 Invitational 

          Boston, Massachusetts

       "AD 20/21" International Fine Art Show 

         April 8-11, 2010 

         The Cyclorama: Boston Center for the Arts

         Boston, Massachusetts

       Boston International Fine Art Show 

         November, 2009

         The Cyclorama: Boston Center for the Arts

         Boston, Massachusetts

       "Twenty Five for Twenty Five":

          Celebrating 25 Years of the Cahoon Museum

          November 10 - December 30, 2009 (Invitational)

          The Cahoon Museum of American Art

          Cotuit, Massachusetts

       "Oil & Water, 2009"

         Two-Person Show with Elizabeth Pratt, Copley Master

          May/June, 2009

          Addison Art Gallery

          Orleans, Massachusetts

        Copley Society of art 

          Patron's Choice (Invitational)

          March, 2009

          Boston, Massachusetts

          Copley Society of art

          Winter Members' Juried: "Passages"

          February, 2009

          Boston, Massachusetts

        

        

         Boston International Fine Art Show 

         With Addison Art Gallery

         November, 2008

         Boston, Massachusetts

         Addison Art Gallery

         Solo Exhibition

         May/June 2008

         Orleans, Massachusetts

         Copley Society of art

         Harvard Club Centennial Exhibition (Invitational)

         Harvard Club of Boston, May /June, 2008

         Boston, Massachusetts

    

         Copley Society of art

         Solo Exhibition:  29 Newbury

         March/April, 2008

         Boston, Massachusetts

         Copley Society of art

         Winter Member's Juried Exhibition: "Stirrings"

         January, 2008

         Boston, Massachusetts

         Cahoon Museum of American Art

         "A Feast for the Eyes"  (Invitational)

         March - April , 2008

         Cotuit, Massachusetts

         Diana Levine, Fine Art

         Featured Exhibition

         December, 2007 - May, 2008

         The Boston Design Center

         Boston, Massachusetts

         Steinert Hall, Boston

        November, 2007 

         Installation/Collaboration with Pianist Barbara Lieurence

         Featuring the Works of Three Contemporary Composers

         Sponsored by Steinway & Co. and M. Steinert & Sons

       Addison Art Gallery

         Two-Man Show, August, 2007

         Orleans, Massachusetts

       Boat Meadow Gallery

         Solo Exhibition 

         June, 2007

         Dennis, Massachusetts

      

       Diana Levine, Fine Art

           Solo Exhibition

         January, 2007

         The Boston Design Center

         Boston, Massachusetts

        

       Copley Society of art

         Spring Member's Juried Exhibition: "Emerald"

         April/May, 2007

         Boston, Massachusetts

       Steinert Hall, Boston

         Collaboration with Pianist Michelle Kelley

         March, 2007 

         Featuring the Life and Works of Robert Schumann

         Sponsored by Steinway & Co. and M. Steinert & Sons

       Cotuit Center for the Arts

         "When We Were Younger" Invitational

         January, 2007

         Presented by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod

         Cotuit, Massachusetts

       Erlich Gallery

           Featured Artist

         October/November, 2006

         Marblehead, Massachusetts

        

         Barnstable Old Selectmen's Building

         Solo Exhibition

         August, 2006

         Barnstable Village, Massachusetts

       Rick Fleury Studio & Gallery

          Featured/Solo Artist/Owner

         Summer/Fall, 2006

         Provincetown, Massachusetts

       Cape Cod Museum of Art

            Solo Exhibition

             May/June, 2006

          Dennis, Massachusetts

          Provincetown Art Association and Museum

          New Additions to the Permanent Collection

          March, 2006

          Provincetown, Massachusetts

        

          Fine Arts Work Center

          Monoprint Project Invitational

          Summer, 2006

          Provincetown, Massachusetts

           Fine Arts Work Center

           Artist Project Invitational 2004 - 2007

           Provincetown, Massachusetts

           Blue Hill Bay Gallery

           Blue Hill, Maine

           2004-2006

        Left Bank Gallery

          2005, Gallery Artist

          Wellfleet, Massachusetts

          

          Robyn Watson Gallery

          2004 Gallery Artist

          Provincetown, Massachusetts

          The Gallery at Beachfront

          2002-2003, Owner/Solo Artist

          Provincetown, Massachusetts

        Julie Heller Gallery

          2000-2001, Gallery Artist

          Provincetown, Massachusetts

        Charles-Baltivik Gallery

          1998-1999, Gallery Artist

          Provincetown, Massachusetts

       Cambridge Art Association

         1997 Group Juried Exhibition

         Cambridge, Massachusetts

       New England Watercolor Society

          North American Open Show

          1996 Juried Exhibition
          Federal Reserve Bank,

          Boston, Massachusetts

        Anna Maria Artists Guild

          1995 Group Juried Exhibition          

          Anna Maria Island, Florida

        Kennedy Studios

          1995 Gallery Artist

          Sarasota, Florida