About the Artist

Rupert Deese was born in Upland, California, in 1952. He studied painting with Manny Farber at the University of California, San Diego, and ceramics with Sheldon Kaganoff at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

He lives and works in New York City.

Deese’s body of work includes painted shapes, plein-air works on paper, etchings, drypoints, woodcuts, and photographs. These works derive their format, line, shape, and color from observations made while wandering the rivers and mountains of the Sierra Nevada in California.

Deese’s work has been exhibited at Nancy Hoffman Gallery in New York since 1984.