Ric Conn 

American expressionist painter, he focuses primarily on figurative depictions of the female experience. He is inspired to empower and look into the realities women face in Western culture. Utilizing oil, acrylics, gouache, charcoal, and ink to exhibit the many forms and textures of the female body and often portraying women with symbolic animal motifs and applying a soft and muted palette, creating space for his audience to entirely focus on his subjects. Conn’s work is a modern take on expressionism, using his unique method of evoking emotion, and reaction as he tackles relevant topics through subtle additions to each canvas.  Conn explores the opposition between reality and perception. Layers of female characteristics are captured in each one of his paintings- focusing on the essence of courage and beauty in women

“I believe in equality, and I want my work to reflect that. The stories in my paintings are situations that can happen to anyone. I paint them from the female perspective because, unfortunately, women are still mistreated. Since I am a man and the subjects of my paintings are women, I attempt to show equality because the stories can, and sometimes have, happened to me as well.” – Ric Conn

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