A passing glimpse of my painting through the gallery’s doors using my iPhone XS Max.
10-18-18. It’s Almost Over.
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9-29-18. Yusei Abe at Giant Robot.
Congratulations to my former illustration student! It’s his solo show at Eric Nakamura’s Giant Robot 2 gallery in Los Angeles featuring Yusei’s intricate pen and ink works with a fantasy theme. Pretty good!
Center: Yusei Abe, Right: Eric Nakamura/Giant Robot
9-15-18. Long Beach Zine Fest.
What’s a zine? A zine is a self-produced booklet that contains photocopied images and text. It’s likely to be inexpensive to make and produced in limited printed editions. Good ones are real gems and are sought by collectors. It’s gaining in popularity especially in creative fields because they can serve as practical self-promotion items due to its inexpensive up-front costs to make. This year, there were new faces to the zine world and they included a few of my advanced illustration students from Pasadena City College and they had a great booth with their works. Eric Nakamura from the classic Giant Robot store and gallery in West Los Angeles was there too. Good job all around!
8-25-18. Art and Coffee.
This is the site and these are early installation snapshots of an art program called Our Living Room Project. The exhibit is titled Thoughts, Words, Things, and Images. It’s thoughtfully organized by the artist Fiona Chang. Fiona and Ching Ching Cheng, Willis Stork and myself have works on display right now! There will be a reception on Friday, October 12, 2018 during Pasadena’s Art Night and the exhibit runs through October 19, 2018. The coffee is great too so drop by!
Ambrose Café, 509 E. Walnut Street, Pasadena, CA.
Reception: Friday, October 12, 2018 from 6PM to 9PM
Regular hours: Mondays to Fridays from 7AM to 5PM and Saturdays from 8AM to 3PM
8-31-18. Japan Happens in L.A.
Pictures from a special Friday afternoon adventure. Kazuo Kadonaga’s works are on display in the beautiful Nonaka-Hill Gallery through September 8. Go see!
2-24-17 to 2-26-17. Future
This will be good. Always is.
12-14-16. Deep inside the studio
Happy Holidays all!
12-29-14
#105, 2:02 PM. Flash! Check out #rickosaka, #snapshots, #art, #drawing, #pattern, #design, #iPadart, #painting etc. on Instagram for more moments of a perfect world.
1-1-15
This is one of my paintings from a series of hyper-stylized portraits. It was featured in the January 2015 issue of Chronogram Magazine. Thanks to David Perry of Chronogram and Tom Christopher from the Lift Trucks Project in Croton Falls, NY.
http://issuu.com/chronogram/docs/chronogram_0115/59?e=1064148/10740922
Opening, 3-8-14
Artists: Tom Decker, Sandra Gallegos, Ann Isolde and Richard Osaka. Curated by: Quinton Bemiller. Exhibit Coordinated by: Michele Cairella Fillmore.