Curtis Ripley Digital Catalog Out Now

William Turner Gallery is pleased to present the digital catalog for High Fidelity, an exhibition of recent works by Los Angeles painter Curtis Ripley. The title High Fidelity speaks to Ripley's commitment to close observation — paintings that reward sustained attention with layers of detail and quiet emotional resonance. Rendered in his signature palette of warm ochres and deep shadows, the works in High Fidelity capture the particular beauty of Los Angeles at its most still and unhurried.

Ripley’s practice occupies a space between the gestural immediacy of Abstract Expressionism and the immersive chromatic sensibility of Color Field painting. His work synthesizes these traditions into a contemporary language grounded in process, layering, and revision. While resonant with historical explorations of light and atmosphere, his paintings remain distinctly present—open-ended, responsive, and experiential.

Blues of Evening, 2026, Oil on canvas, 60” x 72”

Presented concurrently with Unrepentant Beauty by Roland Reiss, High Fidelity offers a complementary approach to perception—one grounded not in constructed illusion, but in painterly sensation and temporal experience.

Throughout a career spanning more than four decades, Curtis Ripley has exhibited nationally and internationally, with an extensive record of solo exhibitions. Born in Lubbock, Texas in 1949, he received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1975.