RTS is excited to host talks with artist in residence Richard Zimmerman and LA based artist Bessie Kunath on Tuesday, June 18th at 7pm!
Richard Zimmerman received his MFA in Studio Art from Cornell University and BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute. He was a recipient of the John Hartell Graduate Award, a Cornell Council for the Arts Grant, and a nomination for The Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture. He was recently awarded a Tulsa Artist Fellowship and is currently living in Tulsa, OK. Past exhibitions include ‘Fluid Means’ at Artlot, Brooklyn, ‘Touch Move’, Royal Nonesuch Gallery, Oakland (2017), ‘After Laughter’, Werk Gallery, Los Angeles, ‘Meditating America’, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle.
Bessie Kunath received her MFA from UC Santa Barbara in 2012. Previous solo exhibitions include ”Pearl” at Central Park Gallery, “Safety Dance” at Eastside International and “Free Normcore” at Autonomie Projects. Recent group exhibitions include “Baker’s Dozen” at the Torrance Art Museum, “The Garden” at TSA Los Angeles, “Lazy Susan” at Titanki gallerias in Finland and “UFOLOGY” at Outpost Projects curated by Kio Griffith, “I know Everything” curated by Iris Hu at Dave Gallery, “From Dust Returns” at Ichibeicho Gallery in Tokyo, Japan, “Demolition Women” curated by Young Chung at Chapman University and “If Memory Serves”, curated by Allyson Unzicker. Kunath is also a member of an artist/ curatorial project called Manual History Machines. In the Fall of 2019, Kunath will be engaging in the health field by starting a nursing program at Drexel University.