User:Rictringali

Profile: Ric Tringali, Artist. August 10 1951- December 20 2013.

Ric Tringali was born in 1951 in Algonac, Michigan. Tringali grew up on the waterfront near Lake Saint Clair and studied art, illustration, and graphic design at the Kendall College of Art and Design in Grand Rapids, and at Thomas Jefferson College in Allendale, Michigan. He moved to the the San Francisco Bay Area in 1975 to study fine art at the San Francisco Art Institute where received his BFA and MFA. He returned to the Bay Area, where he taught briefly at the the San Francisco Art Institute and at the Art Institute of California – San Francisco. Ric Tringali has been a mentor to some of California’s notable artists and has studied with Hassel Smith, Sam Tchakalian, Bob Hudson, Roy Deforest, Robert Irwin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and more. Guided by his mentor Ursula Schneider, and Ivan Madrakoff he followed a belief that art and philosophy were deeply intertwined with the spiritual.

Philosophy: Tringali followed a path of Constructivism, Geometric abstraction and Minimal art embracing the principles of a precise visual language of sacred geometry of dimenson, shape, limited color, geometry, precise craftsmanship, coupled with the metaphysical practices of the I Ching and the Kabbalah.

Collections: Tringali's work is in many private and public collections, including the San Jose Museum of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; ARCO Center for Visual Art; the Centre Pompidu, Paris among others. [3]