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Interview with Austin's Eastside Magazine April/May 2017
Born in 1974 in Natick, Massachusetts.
Lives and works in Austin, Texas, USA.
Works held in private collections in USA, England, Germany, Hungary, Uganda and Canada.
Studied art at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas.
Currently accepting inquiries about commissioned artwork.
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In Deegan’s rich imagery, landscapes and people play a requisite role. He mixes the spiritual, mystical and dreamlike with the routine and his everyday emotional experiences. His subjects and inspiration come from his exposure to a thriving and worldly existence and the sadness, introspection and vulnerability he is left with as a result. Studying Deegan’s paintings can be likened to standing before a precipice, you are made to feel small in their presence while at the same time you are at one and at peace and sometimes part of the story contained there within.
The evocative atmosphere of Deegan’s works inevitably affects the viewer. The paintings exude a somewhat surreal nonsecular ambiance in which time and dimensionality cease to exist. The viewer enters a state somewhere between dream and lucidity and is transferred to a place that is both satisfying and unsettling at the same time. Rarely will a viewer walk away unchanged.
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Richie Deegan
www.richiedeegan.com
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Personal
Richie Deegan (b. 1974, USA) Lives and works in Austin, Texas
Education
Stephen F. Austin State University, Fine Arts Program, 1993-1998
Selected Exhibitions
2023 Group Show, The Long Center, Austin
2023 Solo Show, Riverbend Gallery Austin
2022 Solo Show, Art and Design Gallery, Louis Shanks, Austin
2021 Solo Show, A New and Different Sun, J Schneider Studios, Spicewood, TX
2019 Solo Show, The Hometown Show, Spring, TX
Group Show, Cement Loop Gallery, Austin
2018 Solo Show, Come Wander with Me, Gracepoint Gallery, Houston
2017 Solo Show, ReNew East Gallery, Austin
2016 Solo Show, Louis Shanks Gallery, San Antonio
Solo Show, Louis Shanks Gallery, Austin
Solo Show, Louis Shanks Gallery, Houston
2015 Solo Show, Artist at Large Gallery, Houston
Solo Show, ReNew East Gallery, Austin
2006 Group Show, The Parish, Austin
Collections
Works held in private collections in Germany, Canada, East Africa, the United States and Hungary
Two paintings featured by the Van Gogh Museum as part of their campaign to raise recognition of their museum and social media project #vangoghinspires
Teaching
2015, 2016 Guest Lecturer, Elsa England