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<\/p>\nBorn in Newport Beach, CA in 1953 — Rick Wolfryd is a multi-dimensional artist & writer who has spent much of his lifetime developing his unique cultural vision and word craft outside of mainstream art experience. According to Carole Lieff, Santa Barbara-based art dealer and friend of the artist, “I have known Rick Wolfryd for almost 20 years. Rick has always been a maverick artist — and art dealer; a renegade. Nothing has changed. He will not hew to many of the stale conventions ( and pretensions ) that seem to drive the art ( and literature ) markets. Rick creates his \u2018Outsider Works\u2019 empirically ( although he holds BS and MFA degrees ), while discovering new parts of himself and his art as he goes along. Recently, Rick has produced the finest creative works, I believe, of his lifetime . . . and it is honest, speculative work.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Currently residing in Mexico City since Summer of 2009, Rick is working simultaneously on his fine art drawings, photography, poetry, and \u201cdigital and ideological reconstructions\u201d ( terminology he uses to describe his most recent computer generated art work ). In 1998, Rick was Sotheby\u2019s 8th largest client in the world for buying\/selling\/trading contemporary prints and — to his credit — Rick also created and co-founded one of the world\u2019s most successful, independent Contemporary Fine Art galleries based in Los Angeles, CA — Wolfryd-Selway Fine Art ( currently Hamilton-Selway Fine Art ).<\/p>\n
Yet Rick\u2019s work and influences have always been guided buy an internal drive and determination to \u201ccreate sublime statements\u201d outside of mainstream art experience & venues — where his personal vision remains influenced, but uncompromised. According to the artist: \u201cI am not a great scientifically minded person; I am no extraordinary visionary; I am no pointed philosopher following and establishing new rules; I am no sharp-tongued critic, or self-centered wanderer, or mystic lover of all things and people. My main artistic mission is to leave the world a much better place by inspiring people through my creative work; giving all-of-me through acts of artistry & love; generously trusting that my point of view is \u201cjust that\u201d — a small \u201cblip\u201d on the map of everything-beautiful (about life ) that matters, and doesn\u2019t . . .<\/p>\n
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\nI Can See . . .<\/em>
\n( Entrusted In Eternity! )<\/em>
\nLies Waylaid Somewhere Over There;<\/em>
\nLike a Torch! A Hammer! A Block — That\u2019s Bare!<\/em>
\nAnd My Pounding Heart<\/em>
\nWith Illumination Enough<\/em>
\nTo Sanctify the Holy Night<\/em>
\nNever Quits Pounding Out My Dreams!<\/em>
\nThe Thought of You ( And How! )<\/em>
\nIt Always Seems . . .<\/em>
\nRW from Posed Sentiment<\/em><\/p>\n