About the Artist

Rick Monzon is a California native. Early years were influences of suburban architecture, wildly painted hot rod and custom cars and psychedelic music and posters.

Attending Art Center College of Design led him to a career in commercial art and, primarily, entertainment advertising where he worked as a photo retoucher and illustrator.

Gravitating into fine art in the 1990s, he was part of the artist community of industrial downtown Los Angeles.

He and his family moved to the Ojai Valley in 2003. In addition to his work as a fine artist, he currently works in Special Education.

Artist's CV

Education

1973 Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA

1971 Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA

Exhibitions

2019 Ojai Studio Artists, Open Studio Tour, Ojai, CA

2018 Ventura Museum of Art, Ventura, CA

2017 525 Gallery, Ojai, CA

2014- 2017 George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2001-2014 Venice Art Walk Auction, Los Angeles, CA

2004/2008 Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2005-2008 Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA

2003-2007 Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA

2004-2005 George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2004-2005 On Gallery, South Pasadena, CA

2002-2004 Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2003 Canvas Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2003  California State University at Los Angeles

2000-2002 Diane Nelson Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA

2000-2001DNFA Gallery, Pasadena, CA

2001 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

2001 Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA

2000 Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2000 Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA

1999  Bedlam Art Salon, Los Angeles, CA

1999  Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA                                     1998  New Alchemy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Publications

Suburban Landscape, The Art of California Sprawl by Ann M. Wolfe

San Jose Museum of Art and University of Chicago Press, 2006

New American Paintings, January 2000

Artweek, September 2000

O.C.Weekly, August 2000

Awards                                                                                                                          

1995  Associates Purchase Award, Brand Library XXV Exhibition, Glendale, CA

Collections

Mark Andres, San Clemente, CA       Julie Gilbert, Los Angeles, CA

Nicole Holofcener, New York, NY      Tom Balmaine, New South Wales, Australia

Lauren Antonoff, Seattle, WA            Ivo Watts Russell, Santa Fe, NM