Arick

Arick was born in Los Angeles and has lived all over the world. At six his family made Aliyah to Israel. He came of age in the California desert and studied at UC San Diego, double majoring in visual arts and art history.

During the pandemic he painted a painting a day for over 550 days. Working under the name Moriartsy, in meticulous photorealistic detail, he opened a gallery show on Crosby Street in SoHo and won three awards at Art Basel. Then a stranger showed him AI images trained on his own paintings, and everything changed.

He pivoted to work no machine can duplicate. The Emotional Brush series is abstract, exaggerated and multi material, where the paint and the brushstrokes are the point. Less pre-planned, more discovered in the moment. In his words, anybody can make an image, and his goal is to make it feel like it came from a human hand and a human soul.

Seventeen paintings on canvas, all 2023. Each is an original, one of a kind, and the full sale price is paid to the artist. A $50 print of every work is available in the print shop.