Rick Hilsabeck
Tour Stop Number: 72 or 3 days: 3
Type of Stop: Artist
Category: Painting
Website 1: https://www.rickhilsabeck.net/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rickhilsabeckart
Email: rick@rickhilsabeck.com
Landscape/Abstact Oil Painitngs
Rick Hilsabeck has loved color ever since he can remember. During childhood visits to The Art Institute in his hometown of Chicago, he was captivated by the vibrant color palettes of such artists as Wolf Kahn, Emily Mason, PaulCezanne, Auguste Renoir, Gustav Klimt, Frederick Carl Frieseke, Odilon Redon, and Pierre Bonnard as well as the Abstract Expressionists, Clyfford Still, Richard Diebenkorn and Helen Frankenthaler. This was the initial inspiration for him to begin painting. Rick studied at The School of The Art Institute as well as with Colorado Impressionist painter, Chuck Ceraso, student of Henry Hensche. He was selected to paint in the Impressionist galleries of The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, has shown throughout New England, notably in Fairfield County’s Burr Mansion Art Show, as well as in the Western United State. His work hangs in many private collections in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico. Rick is a consummate colorist, mixing his oil paint both on the palette and directly on the canvas, board or paper. He frequently incorporates gold leaf as well as metallic pigments along with oils, acrylics and pastels, using brush, knife, fingers, cloth, trowels…you name it. Rick is also a highly successful professional actor on the Broadway stage and around the world, playing roles such as The Phantom in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera and Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Experience traveling as an actor, singer, dancer, choreographer and director have greatly informed his visual art.