

STUDIO CHANNEL ISLANDS PRESS RELEASE: We are proud to announce that Studio Channel Islands Art Center in Camarillo has recently 'added' a new sculpture to the Roxie Ray Sculpture Garden. Local acclaimed photographer and sculptor, David Rivas, has graciously loaned SCIART his kinetic sculpture, "Source."
********************************************************* CURRENT SHOWS updated December 14 2009
The Ventura County Medical Center will be exhibiting 15 of my photographs until July 2009. They are in the new wing which looks like a 5 star hotel lobby. 3291 Loma Vista Road Ventura CA
The Red Brick Gallery in a new location 315 Main Street Ventura Currently on exhibit New prints mounted on metal..Very Cool!!!! I also have several titanium sculptures in this show.
The Laurel Gallery Ventura new show ...THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING I'm showing one print and one titanium sculpture 255 S Laurel St. Ventura CA
Brooks Restaurant has 6 of my photographs on display in the dining area for an ongoing exhibit. 545 East Thompson Blv Ventura, CA 93001
The City of Ventura continues to use my Art Banners throughout the city, along the beach and at Ventura Harbor.
Studio Channel Islands, on the campus of Cal State University Channel Islands, has one of my titanium sculptures in the Roxie Ray Sculpture Garden.
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Watch for the opening of .....UP THE AVENUE STUDIO
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VENTURA LIFE MAGAZINE Featured Artist see page 38
Follow the above link to the website to read the full article.
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 Old Town Studio Gallery 2165 Ventura Blvd. Camarillo, California
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Tempest This titanium and Belgian marble sculpture is one of the 40 pieces of art selected by the Ventura Music Festival to be auctioned for their 2008 fund raiser.
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Post Mortem In the permanent collection Museum For Fine Art Photography Fort Collens, Colorado
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First Place 2007 Kinetic Sculpture Competition Sponsored by the Turning Point Foundation and the Buenaventura Art Association
Parallax

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IMAGINE THAT exhibit of 20 photographs till March 14
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I was the FEATURED ARTIST for the 2007 Harvest ArtWalk and Photo Ventura.

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Check out this Fine Art Photography magazine that used one of my images ORACLE for the front cover.
Their website http://www.emulsionmagazine.org
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Los Angeles' PBS station KCET program "Life and Times" aired a short documentary about me titled BOILERMAN. Here is a link to a YouTube copy of the show.
"BOILERMAN LIFE AND TIMES"
BROOKS RESTAURANT Four photographs in an ongoing installation 545 East Thompson Blvd. Ventura, CA
CITY OF VENTURA CALIFORNIA Solo artist public art commission with three deferent images made into 48 Art Banners hanging throughout the city through 2009
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KCET LOS ANGELES PUBLIC TELEVISION STATION Val Zavala's program LIFE AND TIMES will be showing the short documentary about David Rivas titled BOILERMAN created by Ryan Kohler and Josh Harmon. first showing in August 2007 and last showing in early October
Hammer Crew This photograph won First Place in Top Photog 07 for PhotoJournalism
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Downtown Ventura Art Banner with my photograph. There are twenty of these banners on the street.
TRANSFORMATION New image
The City of Ventura Public Art Commission selected three of my photographs for a public art project. There will be 48 banners throughout the city featuring my work for the next two years. The banners will range in size from 20 inch x 53 inch to 3 foot by 5 foot and will be on every other light standard downtown, at the beach and in the harbor.
STORM was selected for the Downtown banner.
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CRYPTO G was selected for the beach banner.
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BLUE was selected for the harbor banner.
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My photograph titled JOURNEY has been selected for the cover of ART/LIFE 25TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE. Thank you Joe Cardella.
ART/LIFE... WHAT IS IT?
In the 20 years since Editor and Publisher Joe Cardella wrote ART/LIFE's opening statement, it has become an extraordinary publication in which nearly every page is an original work of art. Each month's issue presents a diverse array of media, including collages, original prints and photos, dimensional objects, poetry and prose. Although ART/LIFE limits its circulation to only 100 copies, its impact is notable. It is collected by such major institutions as New York's Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Getty Trust in Santa Monica. It is also in many private collections, archives and museums throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. Today, ART/LIFE is the best selling periodical at the Guggenheim Museum bookstore in Soho, New York
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Some recognition. Thank You Image Source.
ORMOND
This an infrared image.
In the Jackson Wheeler Collection, as of November 2007 part of the Carnegie Art Museum Oxnard permanent collection
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UNKNOWN ..........infrared image
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Untitled 01-07

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A chromogenic print (from the Greek meaning color-forming) refers to a broad range of color processes. The print is made from a color transparency (a slide) or a color negative. The print contains three emulsion layers, each sensitized to one primary color: blue, yellow, and red. Each layer remembers a different color of the original image. Chromogenic prints are made using traditional darkroom techniques.
CONTACT
E-MAIL David@RivasArt.com
TELEPHONE (805) 701-2466
DAVID RIVAS IS A FINE-ART PHOTOGRAPHER LIVING IN VENTURA CALIFORNIA.
The subjects for his photographs are captured on film with the lens of his Nikon camera. They are enlarged from the negatives using traditional darkroom techniques making chromogenic or Type-C prints.
ORACLE
The resulting prints are anything but traditional. The bold and colorful abstract images allow the viewer to engage with the art on their own terms, bringing their own personal experience to it and suggesting their own interpretation.



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