Event
Visiting Artist Rick Dailey
Apr 17 - Apr 24, 2026
Rick Dailey’s sculptures, installations, and photography investigate the historical traces of his enculturation. Starting from a realization of his own complicity and vulnerability in systems of power, Rick uses uncanny recontextualizations and defamiliarization to disrupt his deep-rooted frameworks of perception and experience. Using various media and staged environments, Rick uncovers and destabilizes his associations with seemingly banal objects and everyday realities through disarming use of humor, absurdity, symbolic gesture, and artifice. These encounters allow him to activate new meanings and forms of relationality, in order to heal and transform his experience with material culture, social structures, nature, memory, place, and time.
Rick Dailey (b. 1975) is an artist based in Fort Collins, Colorado. Rick received an MFA from the University of South Florida in Tampa in 2013 and a BA from Central Washington University in 2009. Rick served as the Studio Coordinator of Photography and New Media at Anderson Ranch Arts Center from 2014 to 2016 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design.
Apr 17 - Apr 24, 2026
While You're On Campus
Shop
ArtWorks Store
Art supplies, fine crafts, and gifts.
Store Hours
June-September: Monday – Friday, 9AM-3PM
October-May: Monday – Friday, 1-5PM (except major holidays.)
Explore
Patton-Malott Gallery
This gallery space on the Anderson Ranch campus is home to contemporary and rustic ranch architectural elements and provides the backdrop for rotating exhibitions throughout the year.
Gallery Hours
June-September: Monday – Friday, 9AM-3PM
October-May: Monday – Friday, 1-5PM (except major holidays.)
Eat
The Ranch Café
The Café is available to Ranch students, faculty, and staff only from October through May.
The Café is a social hub where students and visitors gather to discuss ideas, plan for new creative experiences, and reflect on shared teachings. Join us for a beautiful buffet lunch offering fresh salads and rotating hot items.
