Resume

I came to painting relatively late. Twenty years of three dimensional work and perhaps the arrival of mid life left me longing for a change of subject, medium, interpretive style---- all of it. Though I attended RISD in the late sixties and early seventies, (studying sculpture) as a painter I am essentially self-taught. In the mid nineties I began experimenting with pastel still life and felt like I’d come home in a sense. Not long after I moved on to oil, did a lot of reading and scrutinized the masters of  still life. My heros are not still life painters per se. Martin Johnson Heade and Johannes Vermeer are particularly inspiring to me but I am also drawn to and influenced by the Spanish painters Juan Sanchez Cotan and Juan de Zurbaran, the American John Peto and the French master of fruit and flowers, Henri Fantain-Latour. Contemporary inspiration comes from Claudio Bravo and Stone Roberts.

Born: Trenton, New Jersey, March 26, 1950

Lives in Barrington, RI

Education: Rhode Island School of Design, 1968 - 1971

Member: Art League of Rhode Island

Online: kayritter.com and Contemporary-Still-Life.com

Selected Shows and Exhibitions:

Solo Shows

2008  Mark Milliken Gallery, New York, NY

2007  Mark Milliken Gallery, New York, NY

2005  Mark Milliken Gallery, New York, NY

2004  Mark Milliken Gallery, New York, NY

2003  Mark Milliken Gallery, New York, NY

1998  Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1996  Mark Milliken Gallery, New York, NY

Group Shows

2010  Art League of Rhode Island Annual Members Show at The Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI

2009  Mark Milliken Gallery, New York, NY

2009  Sherry French Gallery, “Flowers in February”, New York, NY

2008  Sherry French Gallery, “Small Sizes, Precious Pieces”, New York, NY

2008  Sherry French Gallery, “ Mainly Maine, Landscape Paintings”, New York, NY

2008  The Baisden Gallery, Tampa FL

2008  Somerhill Gallery Durham, NC

2008  The William Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2008  Sherry French Gallery, Gallery and Invited Artists, New York, NY

2008  Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, “Going to the Dogs”, Providence, RI

2007  The William Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2006  Art League of Rhode Island Annual Members Show at The Newport Art Museum, Newport RI

2005  Art League of Rhode Island Annual Members Show at The Attleboro Museum of Art, Attleboro,MA

2004  The Cooley Gallery, Olg Lyme, CT

2004  Art League of Rhode Island Annual Members Show at A&C Fine Art Gallery, East Greenwich, RI

2003  A&C Fine Art Gallery, East Greenwich, RI

2002  The Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, CT

2002  Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI

2002  Robert Wilson Galleries, Nantucket, MA

2001  Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI

2001  Grand Central Gallery at The Boston Fine Arts Show, Boston, MA

2000  Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI

2000  Rhode Island Foundation, Providence, RI

1997  Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI

1997  Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1996  Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI

Juried Shows

2005  Arnot Art Museum 71st Regional Exhibition, Elmira, NY

2002  Third Annual National Exhibition, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA

2002  Allentown Art Museum 28th Juried Show, Allentown, PA

2000  Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Ar Club 104th Annual Exhibition, New York, NY

1996  Providence Art Club, Providence, RI

Awards

Finalist, The Artist’s Magazine 21st Annual Competition

Third Place, Third National Juried Exhibition, Shippensburg, PA

Publications

The Inspired Garden, Twenty Four Artists Share Their Vision, Judy Paolini and Nance Trueworthy

Downeast Press, 2009

Public Collections

Colby College Museum of Art

Selected Sculpture Solo Shows

1995  Mark Milliken Gallery, New York, NY

1993  Mark Milliken Gallery, New York, NY

1991  Mark Milliken Gallery, New York, NY

1990  Mark Milliken Gallery, New York, NY

1987  Incorporated Galleries, New York, NY

1983  Georgetown Fine Art, Washington, D.C.

1982  Eric Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1981  Eric Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1979  Art Latitude Gallery, NEw York, NY

1979  Frank Wood Gallery, Houston, TX

1979  Capricorn Galleries, Bethesda MD

1979  Cooper & French LTd., Newport, RI

1978  Incorporated Galleries, New York, NY

1977  Incorporated Galleries, New York, NY

Sculpture Group Shows

1995  Grand Central Gallery, Tampa, FL

1994  Edith Lambert, Santa Fe, NM

1989  The Somerhill Gallery, Durham, NC

1983  The Cadme Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1983  Georgetown Fine Art, Washington, D.C.

1981  Eric Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1980  Art Latitude, New York, NY

1979   Art Latitude, New York, NY

1979  Frank Wood Gallery, Houston, TX

1979  Capricorn Gallery, Bethesda, MD

1979  Gallery 700, Milwaukee, WI

1978  Frank Wood, Houston, TX

1977  Incorporated Galleries, New York, NY

1976  Incorporated Galleries, New York, NY

1974  Newport Art Association, Newport, RI

Sculpture in Public Collections

Merriam Webster CO., Springfield, MA

Marathon Companies, Providence, RI

National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, NY

Highlights Sports Museum, Portland, OR