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Keith Linwood Stover - Curator
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The Cyber Art Show
"Bringing the Museum to You"
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
“I am inspired by my own travels. Places and people offer me new scenarios and feelings to pour into my painting. Europe, USA, Asia, all cultures suggest diversity, to which I want to be the eye witness. On the other hand, art is a lens that translates the outside world for me to understand it and connect to humanity.
My way to achieve this is either paint on location, or take notes and draw sketches when I travel. I strive to work by memory, which requires a deeper observation; I select only what really reso-nates within. If I use my own photos I draw an edited version of the subject. Then I decide my own color arrangement, according to my mood and pre-mix a limited number of colors on my palette. At this point the brushwork should be (or at least appear) the easiest and most effortless. In other words, the painting should paint itself!
Ultimately I want the viewer to get lost in a timeless story. It's my highest reward. And a bet every single time.”
Gallery #668B
May 19, 2018
Twelve Pieces by Contemporary Artist
Dorrie Rifkin (Born 1959)
 Dorrie Rifkin - Jersey! boys |  Dorrie Rifkin - Leaving the Highline |  Dorrie Rifkin - Lincoln Center |
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 Dorrie Rifkin - B.B. King's |  Dorrie Rifkin - Preppy Taxi |  Dorrie Rifkin - Road to Freedom |
 Dorrie Rifkin - 100 Bottles of Beer |  Dorrie Rifkin - Jerusalem Bob |  Dorrie Rifkin - Rush Hour - Grand Central Station |
 Dorrie Rifkin - Going Home from the Port Authority |  Dorrie Rifkin - Wallkill Demo - 82nd Street |  Dorrie Rifkin - City Lights |
- Image of the Day -
"Jersey! boys"
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Feature Artist Bio
By permission of the artist, The Cyber Art Show is pleased to feature the second of two 12-piece exhibitions of works by American painter
Dorrie Rifkin (born 1959 in Bronx, New York).
Dorrie Rifkin paints from her passions. Thirty years’ experience as an award-winning art director ignited and cemented a life-long love affair with typography. Her other passions -- music, New York City, and family – are palpable in her work. Every painting has a personal story. “I’m lucky to live near the City, and spend a lot of time there,” Rifkin, an Englewood, NJ, resident, says. “Usually, I’ve a camera or sketchbook in tow. Running out of things to paint would mean that I was not doing much of anything with my days.”
Dorrie’s major influences were advertising and graphic design luminaries whose works leapt off magazine pages and into her heart: the illustrators Bart Forbes, Bernie Fuchs, and Mark English, and type master and ITC Avant Garde (art deco) font designer Herb Lubalin. Now, she is inspired daily by scrolling through fellow artists’ Facebook postings.
Dorrie can’t remember a time when she didn’t paint. Her mother would always give her sketchbooks to keep her busy. But nearly a half century later, what might have remained a hobby suddenly loomed as a possibility of a second career thanks to Dorrie’s taking a workshop in cityscapes with John Salminen.
She quickly emerged as both an accomplished watercolor artist and popular NJ-based watercolor and drawing instructor, and soon thereafter began teaching workshops throughout the country.
Her paintings have won more than 30 prizes, many in international and national juried shows, and are exhibited in private collections worldwide.
Dorrie was featured in the article “Ones to Watch,” appeared in, and her painting, Leaving the High Line, served as the cover of, Watercolor Artist magazine (December 2010 and February 2015, respectively). Her work was selected for Splash 4, 15, 17, 18, 19 and 20.
She is a signature member of the Transparent Watercolor Society of America, and of the Northeast, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, New Jersey and Baltimore Watercolor Societies.
Awards and Jury Shows
2018
- Selected Splash 20: Creative Compositions, North Light Books
- 2018 Watercolor Art Society Houston – 41st International Watermedia Exhibition
2017
- Monmouth Museum’s Juried Watercolor Exhibition: Traditional to Modern
- 75th Annual Open Exhibition – New Jersey Watercolor Society – “John C. Birmingham Award”
- 41st International Show – North East Watercolor Society Exhibition – “American Frame Award”
- Selected: Art of Healing Exhibition at the Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, NJ
- 117th Annual Exhibition of Works on Paper – Philadelphia Water Color Society
- CAA Members’ Show, New Jersey – “Honorable Mention”
- 2017 Mid-Atlantic Regional Exhibition – “M Graham Company Award”
- Selected Splash 19: Illusion of Light, North Light Books
- New Jersey Watercolor Society “Elected Member”
- 2017 Watercolor Missouri International Exhibition
- 2016-2018 Paintings on Loan – US Embassy in Muscat, Oman
2016
- 74th Annual Open Exhibition – New Jersey Watercolor Society
- 40th International Show – North East Watercolor Society Exhibition
- Aqueous Open 2016, 70th Annual International Exhibition – Pittsburgh Watercolor Society
- 116th Annual Exhibition of Works on Paper – Philadelphia Water Color Society – “David L. Williams Memorial Award”
- Liberated Strings: The Guitar in Art, Woodbridge, NJ – “Best Watercolor Award”
- 2016 Mid-Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibition
- 2016 Aqueous Juried Exhibit – West Virginia Watercolor Society Juried Exhibition
- 2016 North East Watercolor Society Members Exhibition – Excellence Award
- 2016 Watercolor Art Society – Houston International Show
Splash 18: Value: Light and Dark, North Light Books
- 2016-2018 Paintings on Loan – US Embassy in Muscat, Oman
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
“I enjoy friends, family, travel, art and good music. No matter where I go, I always remember to take my sketchbook and/or camera. The opportunity for inspiration can be found in surprising places.
I have been an advertising art director for over twenty years. My eye naturally goes to typography, bold color and design. I just stop thinking and then it’s all instinct.”
