Richard Samuelson received his BA from New York University in 1969, and from 1969 to 1971 attended the Art Students League where he began a series of black-and-white paintings that he continues developing to this day.

In 2008 recent paintings from that series were exhibited in Millville at the Riverview Renaissance Arts Center and at a solo exhibition at the at the Carroll Villa Gallery in Cape May.  They were also on view at the Soma Gallery, which currently represents Mr. Samuelson's work. In May of this year as part of the Cape May Film Festival, he organized a program of films on contemporary artists and led a discussion group afterwards on how painters and other people in the creative arts can best present their work before an audience or on video.   

Over the years, Mr. Samuelson's work has been exhibited in group and solo shows around the country, including: the Arnot Museum, Elmira, New York; the galleries at PS One, New York City; the 10 Downtown exhibition, New York City; the Noyes Museum; The Painted Bride Arts Center, Philadelphia (solo exhibition ); and numerous commercial galleries.   His art book," The Long History of a Short Bridge," was purchased by the Museum of modern Art's library in New York.

His cartoons (done in collaboration with Kevin Quigley) can be seen in the weekly Cape May County Herald; have been published in the Saturday Evening Post, and Funny Times; and syndicated nationally and internationally on an individual basis in King features" The New Breed", cartoonstock.com, and uclick.com.   A book of their cartoons, To Whom It May Concern, was published by Max Jacobson Books in the year 2000.

Mr. Samuelson and his wife Mary live in Cape May, where he owned and operated Poor Richard’s Inn bed and breakfast for 25 years.

The opening reception for the event will be July 10th.