The Ohio Artist Registry (OAR) is an exciting opportunity for artists to share their work, connect with the creative community, and establish an online presence—all on a free, virtual platform! The OAR encourages artists working in all art forms, throughout Ohio and beyond, to create a profile, which allows them to better promote themselves and their work. Being listed in the OAR provides artists with new opportunities to share their work with clients, galleries, patrons, and audiences. A listing in the OAR does not confer an endorsement, approval, or verification by the Ohio Arts Council.
For more information, contact Kathy Signorino, artist programs director, at kathy.signorino@oac.ohio.gov or 614-728-6140.
2024 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Bio/Resume:
In 1979, I attended classes at the Alexander School of Painting in San Diego, California. From Alexander Chidichimo I learned the basics of looking at objects in terms of blotches and shapes rather than objects, and constructing complex color palates.
In the beginning years I focused on realism, painting still-life and portraits in oils, then, moving to pastel portraiture.
In 2014 I developed the contemporary abstract style of “The Gene Pool Series” in oils.
Currently, my focus is on Extreme Realism all in the medium of Colored Pencil.
Rosalyn Richards
Professor Emerita
Rosalyn Richards’s work is represented in many museum and corporate collections such as the Guangdong Museum of Contemporary Art in China, Capital One in Richmond, Virginia and the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. She has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and an MFA from Yale University School of Art.
Hollis Richardson
Artist
With over 80 years of making art following his intuition, love of life and people, the challenge of using good design to create great art never ends for Hollis Richardson. Influenced by life experiences with rural and native cultures, and remaining open to the influence of various expressive artists, his work has evolved from realism and impressionism to stylized and abstract forms of modern art that are unique and distinctive.
Sarah Ridenour is a contemporary artist currently creating in the Columbus, Ohio area, with a focus on 2D painting exploring themes surrounding femininity, the social constructs of gender, violence, and the media, with an outlook to explore a variety of identities and the issues surrounding them. Sarah’s work is categorized by her bold use of color and form to convey almost hyper-feminine dreamlike tableaus, while maintaining an undercurrent of unease and the grotesque.…
Paul Rienzo is an award-winning artist in Cincinnati, Ohio. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including an article in American Artist’s Watercolor Magazine. He has shown around the US, including a solo exhibition in New York City’s Soho district. In 2021, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the international Art Comes Alive exhibition. Paul is also an experienced juror and three-time author.
Tim Rietenbach
Faculty Director of Galleries
Tim Rietenbach lives and works in Columbus, OH, where he serves as the Faculty Director of Galleries and Professor of fine arts at Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD). He earned a bachelor of fine arts in painting from CCAD in 1979 and a master of fine arts in sculpture from The Ohio State University (OSU) in 1991.
Steven Riggs
Artist
Steven Riggs was born and raised in Detroit Michigan in spill the age of 11. His father moved the family to Ohio. Steven spent much of his high school years working on Art and studying art and art history. After high school he entered into a. Of Relentless intense study of anatomy and the techniques and processes of Old World Masters.
Steven and his wife have three adult sons and make their home in Pickaway County where he maintains a studio
Steven Riggs
artist, painter, designer
Steven Riggs is a professional artist working in strict old world disciplinary methods using only the highest quality archival materials. Steven’s work is multi-disciplinary that is inclusive of oils on canvas, graphite on papers and board and watercolors. Steven is known for his striking portrait work that goes beyond likeness and captures the personality of the subject.
Steven is a teacher of all things art with an extensive teaching background.
He has participated in many solo exhibits as well as collective and group exhibits nationwide.
Brooke Ripley
Fine Artist
Brooke Ripley is a fine artist from rural Ohio whose textural, multimedia work depicts the discrepancies inherent in memory.
Eric Rippert is a visual artist mining poignant personal imagery; investigating those particular remembrances that never appear in full focus, triggering intuition, and exploring the complex intersections of individual and collective memory. His work resides in the permanent collections of Cleveland Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland Clinic Art Program, and Summa Health Art Collection.…
Robert Robbins is an internationally exhibited visual artist who explores issues of social, political and environmental conflict through landscape as subject. His art, which takes the form of large-scale paintings, on the surface appears straight-forward, but on closer inspection leaves the viewer to contemplate their position in the world.
I create paper mache and paper mache clay which I make myself, and I create also out of different kinds of clay. And wood. And glass. And whatever catches my eye. I paint on canvas and wood and on my sculptures and anything else I can find. My creations are without a doubt whimsical and full of color. When I “work” on them, I might forget to eat. Or clean. And that isn’t a bad thing.
Brian Robinson is an artist and educator based in Dover, Ohio. He uses pastels to feature and bring attention to Ohio landscapes. Light, and the color that is produced from different atmospheric conditions in the landscape, has been a driving force in his work. Robinson graduated from The University of Akron in 1995 and received his master’s degree in painting from Kent State University in 2003.
Wesley Robinson
Wallstreet Wes
“At a stage in my life where a stage and my life are one and the same !”
Alex has performed in Simone Forti’s The Work Is Never Done at MoMA and worked with artists such as Tess Dworman, Moriah Evans, Miguel Gutierrez, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Derek Smith and Bailey Williams among others. Alex most recently performed in Moriah Evans’ REPOSE. Alex’s work has been shown at Movement Research at Judson Church, Draftworks, Double Plus at Gibney, PRELUDE, and American Realness. See more at http://www.alexrodabaugh.work.
Irene Rodriguez
Artist
My artwork includes acrylics, watercolors, original art quilts, block prints, scratch art, digital paintings, photographs, ink drawings, gourd art, and various three dimensional art including hand felted wool head figures.
My whole life I’ve been interested in history and the art history classes I was required to take my second time around were valuable in showing me what came before and helping to mold my personal style. In 2005 I discovered another creative outlet for my artistic skills in the form of writing. This has also complimented my visual side.
Priscilla Roggenkamp
Retired Associate Professor of Art
Priscilla is a working artist and a retired associate professor of art at Ashland University.
Stephanie Rond (Columbus, Ohio) is an internationally recognized painter whose street art, canvas paintings, and community works subvert and reimagine traditional expectations of space, gender, and power. Rond is the founder of WomenStreetArtists.com and S.Dot Gallery, a dollhouse that exhibits miniature art pieces and challenges notions of domesticity and art accessibility.
Michael Rosen
artist, author
Michael J. Rosen is a creative problem-solver, whether in poetry, paint, collage, or sculpture. He has spent nearly seven decades in Central Ohio, working as an artist, teacher, consultant, editor, children’s book author, graphic designer, poet, and anthologist.