“Despite what I sense many viewers see in my paintings, I don’t cerebrally include specific elements. I don’t assign the role of symbol to any given aspect of a piece. That’s up to the viewer. When the work is done it belongs to them. They may honor their own feelings by using my paintings to release emotion and curiosity, to find their Zen. That abstract connection to others is the truly sweet part of my work.”

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Selected Exhibitions

2018 “20in18,” Group Exhibition, featuring works by Keith Haring, Robert Indiana, Richard Hambleton, Val Kilmer, Andy Warhol and others; Woodward Gallery, NYC
2016 “Fall Salon,” featuring 129 works of Art and 61 Artists, Woodward Gallery, NYC.
2015 “Thread Song,” Solo Exhibition, Woodward Gallery, NYC.
2014 “Diesal and Stone…The Lure” Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA.
2013 “Off the Wall,” Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA “Print,” Group Exhibition, Woodward Gallery, NYC.
2012 “Summer Selections,” Group Exhibition, Wooward Gallery, NYC. Lobby of the historic Four Seasons Restaurant, Solo Exhibition, Four Seasons Restaurant presented by Woodward Gallery, NYC
2010 “Chorus of Muses,” Solo Exhibition, 12 Gallagher Lane, San Francisco, CA “BIG Paper Winter,” featuring works by Basquiat, Calder, DeKooning, Richard Hambleton, Franz Kline, Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Warhol; Woodward Gallery, NYC
2009 “Signs of Life,” Mark Mastroianni and Rick Begneaud, Dual Exhibition, Woodward Gallery, New York, NY
2008 “New Visions,” Juried Group Exhibition, ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA, Selected by Karen Tsujimoto, Senior Curator of the Oakland Museum, and Lucinda Barnes, Chief Curator of the Berkeley Museum “SLIDESLAM,” Juried Group Exhibition, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA “Allons á Lafayette,” Group Exhibition Kirsha Kaechele Projects, New Orleans, LA Group Exhibition coinciding with Festival International de Louisiana, Gallery 549, Lafayette, LA Group Exhibition, Westbrook Galleries, Carmel, CA
2007 “Art for all Seasons,” Group Exhibition, SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA “Charity Art Auction, Deborah & Carlos Santana’s Milagro Foundation,” Corte Madera, CA “Works,” Group Exhibition, Sausalito City Hall, Sausalito, CA “Exhibiting Artists,” Group Exhibition, Marin Arts Council, Corte Madera, CA Group Exhibition coinciding with Festival International de Louisiana, Gallery 549, Lafayette, LA

Selected Collectors

Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Bobby Weir Darryl Pottorf Jimmy Macdonell Dr. Allen and Cindy Appley Chuck and Carla Rush Ged Robertsen Rob Matthews
Joyce and Sherman Scott

Bibliography

2018 www.WoodwardGallery.net, Featured Artist Page: Rick Begneaud, 2008 – present
2015 “Featured Opening: Thread Song at Woodward Gallery,’ Artefuse, May 30, 2015
“Rick Begneaud at Woodward Gallery,” Widewalls, by Ana Vesnick, May 2015
2011 “Featured Artist,” Architect Postcard, by Michael Mullin, San Francisco, CA, 2011
2010 “Paper Products,” Chelsea Clinton News, by Joe Bendick, January 28, 2010, p. 12
2009 “Mark Mastroianni & Rick Begneaud: Signs of Life,” The Villager, by Stephanie Buhmann, Volume 79, Number 4, July 1 – 7,
2009 An Evening on the Lower East Side, Covington & Burling, Art Entree, 2009
2008 Fast Forward, “Rick Begneaud: Texture + Color… A Unique Collage,” October 2008
2007 The Independent Weekly, “When I Paint My Masterpiece,” by Mary Tutwiler, May 2007