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Oil, enamel, my very own photography and collage on linen. Photographs were taken in Prague, summer of 1989, mere months before Perestroika.

This painting marked my 2nd after returning to NY after 8 years in Europe, its method involved a lot of paint application and sculpting, in this case molding and complimenting the strips of black and white photos.

Ritchard Rodriguez was born and raised in New York City, studied art at NY’s School of Visual Arts under mentors Gilbert L. Stone and Jonathan Borofsky, migrated once west to Aspen Colorado for two years where he was invited to exhibit for the very first time (at its Jerome Gallery), then east to Berlin, Hamburg and Paris for a duration of eight years. There he was represented by art dealers Michel Ozenne in Paris and Jan de Maere in Brussels who, aside from granting him a solo show in Paris’ first arrondissement, would also include him in the FIAC at the Grand Palais and the Auction House Elkaim, L’Isle-Adam. “I was a realist for a good fifteen years, trained in the ways of the old masters by the late Gilbert Stone, primarily...