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Ralph Papa
Ralph Papa has been drawing and painting since his early childhood living in Manhattan on East 105th Street. In the 1960's after developing his own style, he studied art and architecture at Queens College City College of New York and painted under Henry Gasser at
the Art Students League. Papa worked mainly in New York City and exhibited and sold his paintings in Greenwich Village. Through the 1960's and 70's, his paintings were preimarily of larger than life faces conjuring a pensive mood with feelings of isolation and loneliness.
In the past 20 years, Papa has lightened up as seen in his studio paintings while in Iran in 1978. In the early 1990’s he shifted to plein-air painting on-location in the New York Hudson Valley, the Long Island Hamptons and Southeast Florida. Spanning over 40
years, Papa's paintings present an evolved style that reflects his admiration and respect for nature and individuality.
Papa is a member of the Garrison Art Center, the Delray Art League and is a Signature Member of the Art Guild at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. He resides and paints in New York and Boynton Beach and teaches drawing and outdoor painting at the Cultural Arts
Center in Delray Beach, Florida.
His paintings and drawings can be viewed at
www.papagallery.com
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