Experience

ArtLifting

• United States
• Retail Art Dealers
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Professional Artist

  • Nov 2021 - Present



Rick Ruark Paintings

• Pittsburgh, PA

• Professional Visual Artist

  • Feb 2009 - Present

  Acrylics painter and digital artist. Paintings and/or prints are available directly from: ArtLifting.com Exhibitions 1988-1990 Banyan Yacht & Dining Club, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, (sole artist for the club complex) 1989 Sun Bank lobby & teller stations, N. Miami and Kendall, FL, (one-man art display) 1989 Los Olas Art Fair, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 1989-1990 Lobby art for Storer Communications, Inc., N. Miami, FL 1990 Boca Raton Arts Festival, Boca Raton, FL 2011-2015 'Art All Night', Pittsburgh, PA 2012 'Spring Loaded: The Art of New Life', Extra Life Studio & Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA 2012-2015 Children’s Museum, Pittsburgh, PA 2015 ISAP International Show, Santa Cruz, CA 2015 Louisville Artists Association Fine Arts Show, Louisville, CO 2015-2017 Crooked Tree Art Center D’Art for Art 2015 Art Spectrum - Miami, FL, (Runner up) 2016 Fabric Designer – Shop Vida Designs 2016 ArtLore Gallery, Erie, PA 2015-2020 Permanent collection pieces (3), Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Hospital, Malvern, PA Show less



Mine Safety Appliances Company

• Cranberry Twp., PA

• Designer & 3D Animation Professional

  • Jan 1992 - Feb 2009

  After bringing the majority of agency work in-house, I concentrated my efforts in supporting marketing and engineering with 3D modeling and animation using Quark, Adobe Photoshop, 3D Studio Max and Macromedia Director After bringing the majority of agency work in-house, I concentrated my efforts in supporting marketing and engineering with 3D modeling and animation using Quark, Adobe Photoshop, 3D Studio Max and Macromedia Director



Storer Communications, Inc.

• Miami, FL

• Systems Programmer, IBM 4381

  • Sep 1984 - Sep 1990

  Originally hired to create and manage PC department as well as design and maintain PC-based databases. Eventually moved from PCs to mainframes as Systems Programmer and technical writer. Originally hired to create and manage PC department as well as design and maintain PC-based databases. Eventually moved from PCs to mainframes as Systems Programmer and technical writer.