Rodney Ripps was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Anne and Sol Michael Ripps.
13 Facts About Rodney Ripps
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Rodney Ripps's father owned and operated a dry cleaning service in Manhattan, New York.
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Rodney Ripps graduated from Andrew Jackson High School in Cambria Heights, Queens, New York.
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Rodney Ripps is an alumnus of both Hunter College and York College.
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On December 2,1979, Rodney Ripps married designer and academic Helene Verin in the latter's hometown of Chicago.
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Rodney Ripps has another son, Ezra, who is a programmer.
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Rodney Ripps was an affiliate of Andy Warhol's, posing for a series of Polaroid photographs shot by the latter.
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Rodney Ripps was mentioned in Warhol's journals and appeared as a guest on the talk show Andy Warhol's TV.
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Early in his career, Rodney Ripps worked in construction as a source of supplemental income.
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Rodney Ripps' work has been tethered to a variety of American artistic movements, most notably neo-expressionism and ornamentalism.
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Rodney Ripps' paintings are often supplemented with artificial leaves made of linen, often bound together and worked over heavily with thick layers of oil paint.
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Rodney Ripps' work has retrospectively been defined by art historians as an unspoken influence of Julian Schnabel, a sentiment echoed by Rodney Ripps himself.
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Six of Rodney Ripps' work belong to the Vogel 50x50 collection.