jeff ribaudo

As an artist, Jeff Ribaudo has been exhibiting his work for the past fifteen years in and around Southern California. Ribaudo’s current body of work focuses mainly on the modern concept and utility of paper, an underappreciated medium, essential to everyday life. Ribaudo emphasizes that his work is “derived from the idea that paper, while fragile and temporary, is a substance regarded as almost useless in value, but vital to everyday life”. The work explores the central theme of repetition using paper as his chief medium. In his work, Ribaudo strives to “make beauty from the most mundane and unexpected” by “combining the ideas of the frailty of paper with our dependence on it, along with the unnecessary overproduction of mundane items”. Ribaudo’s mostly abstract work features bright geometric patterns with collage elements, and repetitive geometric work.

Lee Tusman

Curator

Riverside Art Museum

Solo Exhibitions

Dollars to Doughnuts – Riverside Art Museum – Riverside CA – June-August 2009

Duress – Undergrind Gallery – Riverside CA – April 2006

Freetime – Medium Gallery – Riverside, CA March 2005

Plug in/Tune Out – Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, CA – April, 2004

Escape – White Room Gallery, Claremont , CA  – January 2004

Group Exhibitions

REBOUND - Quanset Gallery Riverside, CA May 2009

RICOCHET –  Chip Projects,  London, England  May 30, 2009

Banner Project – Riverside City and Riverside Art Museum Riverside, CA April-August 2009

Riverside Views – Ensenada, Casa De La Cultura Ensanada, Mexico December 2008

Liason – RCC faculty Show Quad Gallery Riverside, CA September 2008

Monothon 14 – Riverside Art Museum  Riverside, CA  July 2007

CAAC- Dallas Fort Worth, TX  February 2007

Paintings Edge – Arrowhead Gallery, Arrowhead CA and The Riverside Art Museum, Riverside CA July-August 2007

Little Purple Sack – Market Gallery  Los Angeles CA June 2007

CAAC - Asian Fusion Gallery, Asian Cultural Center Manhattan, NY February 2007

RCC Faculty Show – Landis Art Center Gallery, Riverside CA September 2006

Monothon 12 – Riverside Art Museum Riverside , CA  July 2006

JAM – Market Gallery, Los Angeles, CA January 2006

Around the Sun – Market Gallery – Los Angeles, CA April 2005

Monothon 11 – Riverside Art Museum Riverside, CA July 2004

Supersonic – Art Center Wind Tunnel, Pasadena, CA June – August 2004

2 Fine Hams – White Room Gallery, Claremont, CA  – March 2004

Robots Have Feelings Too – Culture Cache Gallery, San Francisco, CA – November & December, 2003

Visions - Fender music and Art Museum – Corona, CA July – October 2003

Idols – Group Exhibition  – Division9 Gallery – Riverside, CA July 2002

Digress – Benefit Art Show  – Group Exhibition Riverside Community Art Gallery – Riverside, CA – July 2002

Abstraction 2002 – Group Exhibition Stage Gallery, New York, NY – March 2002

No Purchase Necessary – Group Exhibition Riverside Community Art Gallery – Riverside, CA – August 2001

Dia De Los Muertos – Museum of History and Art – Ontario, CA – September 2001

Beefcake/Cheesecake – Sex, Flesh, Money + Dreams – Juried Group Show – Santa Ana, CA – August 2001

Curatorial

Selections From the Permanent Collection – Riverside Art Museum Riverside CA November 2008

Earwax – Mike Watt and Raymond Pettibon, Live music and Painting, Riverside Art Museum Riverside CA January 2008

No Purchase Necessary – Group Exhibit  – Riverside Community Art Gallery – Riverside, CA August 2001

Snappin’ Loads – Solo Photo Exhibit of George Campos – The UCR Barn   Riverside, CA June 2001

Surrealisimo – Solo Painting Exhibit of Cosme’ Cordova  – The UCR Barn   Riverside, CA May 2001

Abstract Clarity – Group Exhibit – The UCR Barn   Riverside, CA April 2001

There Goes the Neighborhood – Group Exhibit  – The UCR Barn   Riverside, CA March 2001

Less Artsy, More Fartsy – The Riverside Community Art Gallery – Riverside, CA August 2000