Artist Bio - Photographer, David Rickerd of Keller, Texas

David Rickerd - Contemporary Digital Fine Art Photographer

David Rickerd was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1954. Rickerd grew up in Michigan where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Eastern Michigan University. After earning a Masters in Photography at the prestigious Rochester Institute of Technology in 1980, Rickerd moved to New York City to work as a freelance photographer doing projects for major publications and advertising agencies.

After five years of freelancing, Rickerd branched out into the electronic art area where he worked as a Video Paintbox artist for WNBC-TV and ABC-TV Network News in New York. Rickerd then made the change back into pre-press and worked at Applied GRaphics Technologies for seven years working on advertising campaigns and publications.

In 1995 Rickerd founded the DGR Studio and provided photo composition and retouching for Color Wheel in New York City. In the past few years no fewer than six separate articles have been written about Rickerd and his imagery in graphic art and design publications including Step by Step Graphics, September 1988, Canada's Studio Magazine and Computer Artist.

Rickerd refers to his personal work as "Surreal Collage" and says that he finds the electronic media enables him to integrate his photography and illustration-design seamlessly so that the final product looks natural. Rickerd's surreal collages capture the feeling of open spaces and the elements of life. They are visual memories of a time that may never have existed except in the imagination. Rickerd seems to tap into shared subconscious, a sort of universal dream state where everyone can wander free.

Today Rickerd is an accomplished underwater photographer collecting his imagery from far away places including: The Red Sea, the South Pacific (Micronesia Islands), Galapagos Islands, the Caribbean, Central America (Belize & Honduras) and Mexico.

Rickerd has a personal concern for the safety of the world's underwater environment and is attempting to document as much of it as possible before it's extinction.

David Rickerd currently has been working on his Winged Beauties Collection. This collection of surreal images are a mixture of above and below photographic elements. The main focus is on the winged beauties (butterflies) put together in an abstract, painterly, photographic surreal image. Today I am pursuing a more fine art photographic image product.