Gay Summer Rick: Interventional Itinerary (Proof Edition)

An exhibition catalog of the seventh solo exhibition of painter, Gay Summer Rick. Originally slated for 2020’s and postponed due to the pandemic, Rick had conceived of a wholly different body of work to show. Envisioning aerial landscapes suffused with the light and atmosphere, Rick undertook preparation for the exhibition by traveling, a very “intentional itinerary” between Los Angeles and New York. At the onset of the pandemic Rick began to recognize a common thread, the ardent desire to be somewhere else. She began to ask friends, “If you could be anywhere right now, where would you be?” Based on the responses, Rick’s “intentional itinerary” was transmuted into an “interventional itinerary”. Rick’s newest paintings are meant as a means to help viewers emerge from their collective lockdowns and to carry them to inspirational places where her audience is “enveloped in a quiet calm, holding onto big dreams, and embracing hope for the brightest days ahead.”