"Bringing the Museum to You"

By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the first of two

12-piece Exhibitions of works by American contemporary Impressionist painter Richard Galusha (born 1955 in Casper, Wyoming).

 

Richard Galusha grew up on a ranch outside of Abilene, Texas where he developed a love for and understanding of horses, which he has expressed in his art from a very early age. He moved to Boulder, Colorado with his family of eight bothers and sisters when he was in middle school. After high school, he joined the Navy and traveled to the Far East, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. He had a studio in the barracks on the island of Guam and completed many drawings and paintings of island life. After the Navy, he completed his BFA at the University of Colorado in Boulder. In 1986, He moved to Steamboat Springs, Colorado for an Art teaching job at the local High School and was for many years an Instructor at Colorado Mountain College. He retired in 2005.

 

During the summer of 1991, Richard received an individual fellowship grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Steamboat Springs Arts Council to study plein air painting in the Yucatan. He received another fellowship 

from the NEA and SSAC in 1994 to study with 

Richard Schmid and Thomas Buechner in Loveland, CO. He has also studied with Zhang Wenxin, Clyde Aspevig, Harley Brown, Ned Jacob, Ted Goerschner, Ray Vinella, Bill Reece, David Leffel, Don Stone, Jim Norton, and Ron Riddick. He has studied at the Loveland Academy of Fine Arts, Loveland, CO; Jackson Hole Art Academy, WY; The Fechin Institute, Taos, NM; Art Students League, New York, NY; Scottsdale Artists School (summer), Steamboat Springs, CO; Adams State College, Alamosa, CO. (Masters); Rice University, Houston, TX; University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. (BFA) and University of Guam, Guam.

 

In 1998 Richard and his wife started the Wild Horse Gallery in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. 

 

Richard's real love is painting in plein aire in and around his home in the Hahn's Peak/Steamboat Lake area, with his wife, Shirley Stocks and their malamutes, Zorn and Sierra. They have been fortunate to travel to various parts of the world to paint in plein aire. From 1989-2000 their painting travels included the Canadian rockies;  Tanzania and Kenya, Africa; the Greek islands of Mykonos and Santorini; the English countryside; Nepal; Paris, France; Botswana and Zimbabwe, Africa; the British Virgin Islands.  In June and July of 2001 they traveled and painted on an extensive trip of Europe, which included London, Paris, the French countryside, Swiss Alps, Venice, Assisi, Rome, Siena, Florence, Monte Carlo and Nice. In 2007, they traveled back to Greece to the Island of Kafalonia and sailed around the islands painting all the various ports. In September the same year they traveled to Italy and based their stay in the former villa of Mona Lisa's family summer home while painting the northern part of Italy.

 

Richard's works are in many collections throughout the United States and Europe.