About

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Rick Bolton is an artist and writer who lives in Los Angeles. His work explores the experience of living in Los Angeles. He is particularly interested in the unscripted activities that occur in so-called “marginal” areas – things that are hiding in plain sight. His work addresses city planning, infrastructure, and human impacts.

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Rick’s exhibition history includes one-person shows at the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego CA, the California Museum of Photography in Riverside CA, Capp Street Project in San Francisco CA, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester NY, and the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge MA, among others. He has also created public art projects for Cambridge, MA and for the Public Art Fund in NYC. Over the last year, his work appeared in “Golden Hour,” LACMA’s traveling photography exhibition featuring work from its collection.

 

His publications include The Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography (MIT Press) and Culture Wars: Documents from the Recent Controversies in the Arts (New Press).

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Drop him a note at rick@floodedstudio.com or use the form on this page.

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