Riki R. Nelson is a Contemporary American Oil Painter known for her realistic and surreal portraits of jazz musicians, bar patrons, and city street scenes. In a 2008 review, her work was described as, “realistic in the physical sense and raw in the spiritual sense, capturing the discordant element of self” (ref 2). Using traditional realism, which she compliments with contemporary colors & compositions, she expresses a uniquely creative vision rooted in the elegance of traditional realism, while utilizing subtle surrealism to capture what she perceives as ‘the undercurrent of...more
