RICK PAS

 
EDUCATION

Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Pearson Art Scholarship


SELECTED EXHIBTIONS

2011    Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City, MI, Art and the Animal

2010    William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA, Landscape Exhibition
            William Baczek Fine Arts, Summer Group Exhibition
            Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey, MI, Juried Fine Arts Exhibition
            San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA, Art and the Animal

2009   West Michigan Center for Arts & Technology, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize
            Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI, Michigan Fine Arts Competition William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA, Landscape Exhibition

            Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI, Shrines and Altars
2008     The Natural Eye, Holland Area Arts Council, Holland, MI
             Landscape Exhibition, Summer Group Exhibition
, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
            
The Natural Eye, Holland Area Arts Council, Holland, MI
2007     Landscape Exhibition, Summer Group Exhibition, William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
2006     New Dimensions on the Natural, World WARD Gallery, Harbor Springs, MI
             Art and the Animal, Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT
             Nature Reperceived, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2005    Art of the Animal Kingdom, Bennington Center for the Arts
            Animal House, Light Street Gallery, Baltimore, MD
            American Birds: A Flight Through Time, The Wildlife Experience, Parker, CO
            Summer Celebration, WARD Gallery
2004   Art and the Animal, Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, Oradell, NJ
            Contemporary Realism,  Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC
            Five Year Celebration, Washington Street Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
2003   Georgetown International, Fraser Gallery
            Art on the Prairie, Wildlife Prairie State Park, Peoria IL
2001   57th Juried Exhibition, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA
2000   Birds in Art, Exhibition national tour (also 1983-85, 1987,1992, 1994) locations included:
               Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
               Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA
               Ella Carothers Dunnegan Gallery of Art, Bolivar, MO
               John L. Wehle Gallery of Wildlife and Sporting Art, Mumford, NY
               Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
               Rochester Museum, Rochester, NY
               Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
               Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL
               Springfield Museum, Springfield, MA
               San Bernadino County Museum, Redlands, CA
               California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA
               University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, AK
               Anchorage Fine Arts Museum, Anchorage, AK
               Explorers Hall, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.
           Midwest Winter, Center for the Visual Arts, Wausau, WI
           National 2000, Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY
1993  Wildlife: the Artist's View, Exhibition national tour, (also 1990) locations included:
                Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
                New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque, NM
                R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, LA
                Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
                Rochester Museum, Rochester, NY
                Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI
                R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, LA
                The High Desert Museum, Bend, OR
1992   Arts for the Parks, National Park Academy of the Arts, (also 1990)Jackson Hole, WY
1989   Birds in Art, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
1983   Wildlife in Art, National Wildlife Federation Vienna, VA
1979   Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
 

AWARDS

Art Renewal Center Salon 2009-2010, 2nd Place- Animal category
Society of Animal Artists Award of Excellence 2010
American Artist Cover Competition Finalist, 2007
Honorable Mention Georgetown International, Fraser Gallery 2003
Arts for the Parks Region III Award, 1992
Michigan United Conservation Clubs’ Wildlife Artist of the Year 1982, 1987
Indiana Migratory Bird Stamp Design, 1985


COMMISSIONS & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Alliance for the Great Lakes, Chicago, IL
Ameritech, Detroit, MI
Charles S. Mott Foundation, Flint, MI
Potter Park Zoological Society, Lansing, MI
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

"Layer Upon Layer," The Artist's Magazine, July/August, 2011
“Rick Pas: Touchable Texture." Acrylicartist, Fall, 2010
“Competition Spotlight.” The Artist’s Magazine, April, 2009

"Holland show features art inspired by nature." The Grand Rapids Press, July 27, 2008

"DON'T MISS 'Natural Eye' exhibit at HAAC." The Holland Sentinel, June 12, 2008

"Softening the definition of landscapes." American Art Collector, May, 2008

"Nature is in the Details." The Artist's Magazine, October, 2007

"Cover Competition Finalists." American Artist Watercolor, Spring, 2007

"Nature's Surfaces and Textures." Whisper in the Woods, Summer, 2007

Pintores de la Naturleza, SEO/Birdlife, Madrid 1997 (illustrator)

"A Dark, Dark Day Indeed." Audubon, March 1988 (illustrator)

"Music in the Men’s Room." Audubon, July 1985 (illustrator)





 



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