Artist News Update Current Exhibitions: 15 February - 20 March Small Narrative Paintings Rosenberg Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MA Intimately small in scale, exquisitely rendered in oil, the paintings are composed as similar but contrasting diptychs. Or, in a single frame, a smaller image is inserted in a larger background image-a painting within a painting. In both formats, the effect is the same: Rivera almost surreally shifts the context of time and place and thereby reveals multiple aspects to what we are looking at, changing what we see. Dreamlike, muted coloration enhances this ambiguity. Education 1967 MFA, University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts 1962 BFA, Yale School of Art 1961 Cleveland Institute of Art Solo Exhibitions 2008 New York, NY; Luise Ross Gallery 1997 Hightstown, NJ; Mariboe Gallery, Swig Art Center 1989 Princeton, NJ; Considine Gallery Selected Group Exhibitions 2009 New York, NY; Luise Ross Gallery, Pretty, Strange 2007 New York, NY; Luise Ross Gallery, RARE BIRDS 2005 Paris, France; Salon d’Automne de Paris Paris, France; Festival International d’Art Contemporain (FIAC) 2000 Trenton, NJ; Gallery at Mercer College 1999 Trenton, NJ; New Jersey State Museum, Fine Arts Annual Newark, NJ; City without Walls, Traps 1995 Hightstown, NJ; Mariboe Gallery, Swig Art Center, Games & Secrets 1993 Trenton, NJ; Gallery at Mercer College 1987 Abington, PA; Abington Art Center 1984 Trenton, NJ; Ellarslie Museum invitational 1980 Trenton, NJ; Gallery at Mercer College 1975 New York, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, Biennial of American Art 1974 New York, NY; Susan Caldwell Gallery Awards and Grants 1998 Siggraph Award, 15th annual conference at Atlanta, GA 1994 Academic sabbatical leave for travel and study in France 1984 Penn-Lilly Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania 1973 National Endowment for the Humanities; stipend for travel and study in France