Rick Seguso

Rick Seguso had been a full-time Floridian since 1989, living predominantly in Palm Beach County. After leaving West Palm Beach and, most recently, Tallahassee before settling in Tidewater in the late spring of 2021. Since moving to Tidewater just over three years ago Rick has maintained a studio/gallery space and exhibits at the D'art Center in downtown Norfolk. He has also had a solo exhibition at Gallery 21. He has shown at The Virginia Beach Art Center and The Beach Gallery in Virginia Beach. He has also shown in exhibitions at The Suffolk Cultural Center for the Arts, which included winning a Best in Show for the Walk on the Wild Side Exhibition, which focused on endangered species. He also has a couple paintings hanging at The Main in Norfolk. Rick is very excited to be exhibiting at the new 110 Gallery in the Pheobus section of Hampton. Artist, musician, actor, and singer/songwriter Rick Seguso was born in 1949 in Bronxville, New York, into a family of artists and athletes. Rick’s father, Arthur, was a semi-professional baseball player. His uncle Richard was an accomplished artist. His grandfather Armand, a musician-turned-painter, had a freelance career that spanned more than three decades as one of the premier poster artists of his day. During the Golden Age of Hollywood he worked for movie giants MGM, United Artists, and Paramount. Armand created iconic posters for many now classic films, including “Gone With The Wind,” The Philadelphia Story,” “Kismet,” and “For Whom The Bell Tolls," "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo", to name a few. Lions Roar, and MGM magazine said, "he was a conduit for bringing MGM movie posters international acclaim for their incisive content and resale value." After a youthful foray into the sports world, it’s not surprising that these seminal influences led Rick into the creative life of a poet, actor, musician and most importantly – painter. Armand’s early influence, Seguso’s own research and resourcefulness, and studies with internationally known artist Peter Olsen, helped Rick further his resolve as a painter. Rick’s work can be found in international collections and has been shown in leading galleries garnering critical recognition and rewards such as the Mary Hulitar Award from the Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach, Florida. Equine art, floral and figurative work are a big part of Rick’s work but at the heart of Rick’s eclectic subject matter are his moody and evocative portraits of musicians and magical and mystical scenic work. Placing special emphasis on each character’s distinct and individual nature, Rick captures these images and themes in bold, vibrant and realistic paintings. Inspired and influenced by the Old Masters and Post-Impressionists, Seguso’s technique is under-painting in grisaille, and most of his works include varying degrees of glazing, “a technique, often overlooked by modern-day artists but an invaluable tool in creating jewel-like depth and style that is impossible to achieve by just mixing paint.”Rick’s colorful past includes working for legendary rocker Bruce Springsteen as his Road Manager and confidant in the mid-1970s. He played a pivotal role in the musician’s rise to stardom. He is also a card-carrying member of the Screen Actors Guild since 1994 and has worked as a stage, film, and TV actor.A songwriter/poet for most of his life, Seguso has two CD’s of original songs entitled “Don’t Give Up” and “My Last Confession”. They were recorded in 2016 and 2020 respectively. It is both amazing and inspiring that despite surviving a serious bout of throat cancer in 2000 and cervical fusion in 2020, he is very grateful to be able to continue to perform publicly.