Bio
RESUME
Honors
2012 Finalist, Art Renewal Center Salon
2012 Certificate of Excellence, Portrait Society of America
2011 Featured in Spectrum 18, the Best of Fantasy Illustration
Finalist, The Odd Nerdrum Beautiful Nude Competition
Finalist, The America China Oil Painters Organization Competition
Portrait Society of America, Members Only Competition, 4th Place, Commissioned portrait category
2012 Member of World Class Artists, Juried Facebook group
Museums
* San Diego Museum of Art - All California Juried Exhibition 2000
* Representing L.A. 2001-2002
o Frye Museum in Seattle
o Laguna Museum of Art
o Art Museum of South Texas
Galeries
* La Luz de Jesus 2010>/li>
* the Hive gallery Los Angeles - 2009
* La Luz De Jesus in Silver Lake - 2007
* John Pence Gallery in San Francisco - 2000
* Lizardi / Harp Gallery in Pasadena - 2000
* Ankrom Gallery in Los Angeles - 1987
Lance's work is in the collection of:
* Grady Harp, owner of Lizardi / Harp Gallery
* John Pence, owner of John Pence Gallery
* Victor Chaltiel, former CEO Baxter Industries
* Milton Schwartz, CEO Checker Cab
* Stanley Fishfader, former owner Coordinated Equipment
* Anthony Newley, entertainer
* Dom Deluise, entertainer
* Randol Schoenberg, Attorney
* Dean Martin Estate, entertainer
Publications
Lance will be featured in Spectrum 18
Lance is featured in an article in Blue Canvas magazine (April 2010)His work has been featured twice in Juxtapoz Magazine (May/June 2003 and March/April 2001)
2012 Catapult Artmag Issue #7
Lance was featured in American Artist, March 2008 and American Artist Drawing magazine March 2009
Educator/Instructor
Instructor Palos Verdes Art Center 2010, He has instructed at Artcenter College of Design, Otis Institute, Santa Monica College and the Associates in Art (recommendations available) Lance now instructs Online with Drawspace.com and gives classes in his own Atelier
2010 to present At Palos Verdes Art Center- Lance instructs Sculpture, Life Drawing and Oil painting
2012 Korpus School of Art, Los Angeles-- Sculpture
He has lectured at California Institute of the Arts.
He is the author of a book on portrait drawing which is now a best seller published by Walter Foster Books in 2008. This book has been #1 in the U.S. Canada and the U.K. for drawing instruction.
He was an instructor of perspective, anatomy, figure drawing and figure painting at the Laguna College of Art and Design where he taught from 1998-2007
Lance wrote comedy for VH1 and appeared on The Jimmy Kimmel Show. He was the figure and portrait sculptor, Mattel Toys 1999 to 2001
Lance Richlin has never spent a day in jail.