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Celebrating Our 25th Year

Welcome to the celebration of artistry, talent, professionalism, and sheer beauty that accompanies the 25th Anniversary of Rick Moore Fine Art in Naples, Florida this year.

After earning a degree in Interior Design, Rick Moore enjoyed a successful career representing major publishers of fine art prints in a huge territory covering most of the Southeastern U.S.

He opened Rick Moore Fine Art in 1982 and moved it to its present, exquisite location in 1990, where his client services excellence, design experience and the great artists he has attracted have made it a destination gallery for art lovers around the globe. Established to present a selection of works by top-notch artists to the growing and ever more discerning communities in and around Naples, Rick Moore Fine Art represents 19 truly international, contemporaneous artists‹18 painters and one sculptor. Rick's design expertise and the artists he feels privileged to represent are the basis of the gallery's perennial success story. Its location in The Village on Venetian Bay, an exclusive collection of unique shops, restaurants built on the waterfront, has the perfect ambience for the kinds of art Rick Moore Fine Art offers.

Relaxed elegance, high craftsmanship, exquisite design, multiple avenues of allure - it all comes down to offering art that reaches established and neophyte connoisseurs on every level - aesthetic, visual, emotional, and intellectual. Rick and his staff - Andrea Dick , Tracy Kurtenbach, and Rob Dunmyer - make every visit to the gallery relaxing, pleasant, and memorable. A standing invitation to enjoy the gallery in person is always in force. The reputation and reach of Rick Moore Fine Art are as international as the art works on exhibit and the clientele. Our site brings the gallery to you wherever you are. It offers an enjoyable introduction to some indisputably brilliant paintings and sculptures .You're sure to find an abundance of reasons for an in-person visit soon, perhaps in conjunction with any of six major exhibitions from January through March, when Naples is at its best. 2008 begins auspiciously with an exhibition of new works by Don Kettleborough and Lisa Linch on January 11 and 12. Kettleborough can paint anything beautifully, combining aspects of realism and fantasy in murals, portraits, landscapes, interiors, and genre paintings that capture essence of time, place, and personality. He has explored and mastered all the technical potentials of paint, manipulating light, color, translucency, opacity and texture, making what is inherently difficult look effortless.

His current series on the Everglades exemplifies his genius in every way. Lisa Linch is a romantic modernist whose first love affair is with painting. Her classical background in music, design, finds expression in compositions of great complexity and coherence. Unashamed of extolling beauty in her work, Linch paints with varying degrees of abstraction, finding and revealing simple, beautiful truths about the good life, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. David Pearson and Linda Ging headline the gallery's second exhibition, January 25-26. Pearson is the only sculptor shown at Rick Moore. He captures ascendancy in his tall, graceful bronzes of dancers, lovers, angels, and avatars. Sensitive to the universal spiritual longing, Pearson transcends boundaries of dogma and dictates in his work. His slender figures and delicate birds resonate with our own dreams and aspirations.

Linda Ging considers an abstract work of art an open secret. It openly requires emotional engagement while deriving mystery from its deliberate departure from representation. Ging has achieved her success by opening herself to the twists and turns of life, perception, and trust in her own inspiration. She dives into the abyss of the blank canvas, and always savors the shift known to many artists from terror to ecstasy as the painting develops. Her collectors only see the ecstasy of a well-crafted pure abstract. Henrietta Milan takes center stage February 8-9 presenting new works executed with palette knife in a technical tour-de-force some four decades in the making. Milan loves flowers - wild in nature, cultivated in gardens and pots, and arranged in vases. Among her favorite haunts is Monet's garden at Giverny. Her impasto paintings there and throughout Europe give homage to Monet on several levels, but she does enough that is different, enough that is entirely her own, to make these interpretations fresh and delightfully original. Roseta Santiago tells the stories of objects in still life paintings any of the Old Masters would likely have been proud to claim as their own. Vases, flowers, vessels, and objects with interesting histories find their way into Santiago's collection as though they know she will tell their stories visually, with the greatest admiration for the care that went into their making and preservation, and an acute awareness of the human histories that have surrounded them. Santiago paints intangibles like atmosphere, scent, silence, vapor, latency, and history with supreme confidence and skill. Her cinematographic arrangements and illuminations have enormous evocative power. Her solo exhibition begins the weekend of February 22-23.

Suzanne French Luker caps the show season with a solo exhibition of new paintings on March 14-15. Her love of European culture finds eloquent expression in realistic impressionism with just enough abstraction to make familiar subjects come to life in new and exciting visual terms. The flowers, cliffs, seas, and village life of France and Italy set up patterns of shimmering light and shadow on topographically interesting vistas that have always held her interest. She has recently added the Everglades to her range of subjects. Whatever she chooses to paint, Luker's approaches to outline, arbitrary color, and perspective offer lasting visual and emotional delight. The gallery also represents Jim Alford, who owns the sky above his home outside Santa Fe, at least artistically. Reflective monoliths appear in Alford's sky paintings, engaging the intellect as much as the eye. Born in England, now a citizen of Canada, Tony Batten paints the influence of sun and sultry clime on the subtropical world in a sun-bathed realism.

Winnie Godfrey’s intimately realistic portraits of flowers in close-up are meticulously detailed, glowing with all the life and delicacy of their textures, structures, and translucency. Viewers can lose themselves in a single blossom.

Nancy Reyner’s energy field paintings of lakes, seas, and other water manifestations mix abstraction and representation in a fluid voice which is haunting and original. Mexican Master, Rufino Tamayo, 1899-1991, painted simple looking figures that captured the existential angst of the 20th century, winning international acclaim with his expressive minimalism. Tal Walton’s paintings revisit symbols like trees, branches, hearts—accessible symbols rendered in the limited hues and unlimited late afternoon gold glazes of the tonalist revival he helped establish.

Rick Moore Fine Art is about world-class quality every step of the way.
If you’re looking for the perfect painting or an exquisite bronze; if you’d like to commission a mural or painting on canvas; just stop in, telephone, or send an email. Whenever, and by whatever means you visit Rick Moore Fine Art, you can count on the absolute best--in artistry, craftsmanship, and your satisfaction.