About the Artist
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Born and raised in Massachusetts, Rick Fleury has devoted his professional life to painting coastal landscapes of New England.
His minimalistic style of landscape is widely associated with Cape Cod and the Outer Cape, gaining growing recognition in Boston and nationally. He is a member of the Copley Society of art, CoISo, the oldest non-profit art association in the United States, founded in Boston in 1879. His work has been selected for several juried and invitational shows through Copley, garnering one award and a recent near-sellout solo exhibition this Spring through the Society.
He has been a year-round resident of 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 in Dennis.
His work was also included in an exhibition
from the Permanent Collection in the new wing of the
Provincetown Art Association and Museum,
and in recent invitational exhibitions at the
Cahoon Museum of American Art
and the
Cotuit Center for the Arts.
His work is in the permanent collections of the
Cape Cod Museum of Art, in Dennis,
the Provincetown Art Association and Museum
and the Cahoon Museum of American Art (2009).
He has taught oil & landscape painting at the
Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis,
the Museum School,
Provincetown Art Association and Museum,
and through the
Copley Society of art.
He is exclusively represented on Cape Cod by
AddisonArtGallery,
Route 28 in Orleans,
and in Boston at the
Copley Society of art,
158 Newbury Street,
and
Diana Levine Fine Art,
at The Boston Design Center
His studio is located in Eastham, Massachusetts.
He lives in Wellfleet with his collie, Graham.
Photo: Dan Cutrona/Cape Cod Life
"If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of what can be, for the eye, which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating
as possibility?"
-- Soren Kierkegaard
Either/Or
Artist Rick Fleury says of his work:
"I'm reaching for the spiritual experience of the landscape.
The landscape in its purest form -- of simplicity and complexity,
as it is, and as it was, undisturbed and uninterrupted by man."
Current
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"As my direction in painting continues to change, I find myself drawn ever closer to the structure and simplicity of the landscape.
I continue to look to simplify my approach -- both in what I see, and what I choose to capture in paint -- while at the same time, reach for more complex challenges in terms of scale and composition, content and emotion."
2005 -2006
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"My aim in painting has always been to capture the most exact interpretation of a moment in time, so that that moment may be revisited over and over again.
I am not drawn to the abstraction of such moments as much as I am to capturing the essense of their beauty through the gesture of a brushstroke: the rare light as it moves across a meadow, or the shadows or reflections it leaves behind; the subtle variations of color as they change with the seasons or time of day; the movement of grasses or sands as they move with the forces of nature or man; the solitude of a wandering low tide or a sun setting for what seems to be a last time.
I find, in working, between watercolor and oil, last year and this, yesterday, today and tomorrow, I am constantly looking to simplify this interpretation.
For, it is in the simplest of gestures
that the truest points can be made."
2004
Selected Exhibitions
"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"
Two-Person Show with Elizabeth Pratt, CM
Opening May 23, 2009
AddisonArtGallery
Orleans, Massachusetts
Copley Society of art
Patron's Choice (Juried)
March 6- April 11, 2009
Boston, Massachusetts
Copley Society of art
Winter Members' Juried: "Passages"
February 6 - March 1, 2009
Boston, Massachusetts
AddisonArtGallery
Boston International Fine Art Show
November 13 - 16, 2008
Boston, Massachusetts
AddisonArtGallery
Solo Exhibition
May/June 2008
Orleans, Massachusetts
Copley Society of art
Fresh Paint, 20th Anniversary (Invitational)
May 4 - May 10, 2008
Boston, 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
AddisonArtGallery
Two-Man Show
Labor Day Weekend, 2007
Orleans, Massachusetts
Boat Meadow Gallery
Solo Exhibition
June, 2007
Dennis, Massachusetts
Copley Society of art
"Fresh Paint, 2007" (Invitational)
May, 2007
Boston, 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 14 - November 30, 2006
Marblehead, Massachusetts
Barnstable Old Selectmen's Building
Solo Exhibition
August 30 through Labor Day , 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 13 - June 25, 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 2004 - 2007 (Invitational)
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
2002-2003 Owner/Solo
Artist
The Gallery at
Beachfront
Provincetown, Massachusetts
2000-2001 Gallery Artist,
Julie Heller Gallery,
Provincetown, Massachusetts
1998-1999 Gallery Artist
Charles-Baltivik
Gallery
Provincetown, Massachusetts
1997 Group Juried
Exhibition
Cambridge Art Association,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
1996 Juried Exhibition
New England Watercolor Society
North American Open Show
Federal Reserve
Bank,
Boston, Massachusetts
1995 Group Juried Exhibition
Anna Maria Artists
Guild,
Anna Maria Island, Florida
1995 Gallery Artist
Kennedy Studios
Sarasota, Florida
Permanent Collections
Cape Cod Museum of Art,
Dennis, Massachusetts
Provincetown Art Asscociation and Museum
Provincetown, Massachusetts
Ritz-Carlton, Dallas/Marriot Corporation
Dallas, Texas
Bessemer Trust
Boston, Massachusetts