~ Biography ~
RichaR GobouT d/b/a RIKXECOM
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RIKXECOM (RichaR GobouT) is a North American contemporary visual artist whose practice spans over five decades, bridging analog photography, digital imaging, and AI-assisted processes. Born in 1959 and based in Palm Beach County, Florida, his work is grounded in a continuous exploration of light, perception, and the transformation of the image across evolving technological eras.
Formed through early training in les arts plastiques in Québec and later influenced by studies in electronics and signal systems, RIKXECOM developed a distinctive methodology rooted in RGB-based image construction. Foundational Visual Formation (Québec, Early Years)
This continuum extending from monochrome film and Kodachrome photography to digital and generative systems positions his work within a lineage of post-photographic and algorithmically mediated practices.
A defining element of his artistic formation emerged during prolonged medical immobilization in childhood following a diagnosis of Marfan Syndrome, where drawing became both a discipline and a means of perceptual inquiry.
This experience continues to inform a practice centered on resilience, material sensitivity, and the translation of physical and psychological states into visual form.
Since 2022, RIKXECOM has engaged with AI-driven image systems through a process of directed generation and curatorial selection, treating algorithmic output as raw material rather than authorship.
His work integrates tactile abstraction, layered surfaces, and multisensory considerations, including accessibility for visually impaired audiences.
His work has been exhibited internationally, including presentations during Miami Art Week, the London Art Biennale, Artexpo New York, and exhibitions in Paris and Florence. His works are held in institutional and private collections in the United States and Canada, including the University of Kansas Medical Center Archives.
Across all mediums, RIKXECOM’s practice is defined by a sustained investigation into the image as a dynamic field—where light, structure, and perception converge into evolving visual consciousness.
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POSTCARDS 1980's
RIKXECOM Photographic Heritage: The Analog Early Series
RIKXECOM’s Analog Early Series traces the artist’s pre-drone photographic heritage to the early 1980s, when he created aerial postcard imagery by helicopter over Southeast Florida’s Atlantic coastline.
Working from an open helicopter with no door or restraint, using a heavy brass camera and manual exposures on Kodachrome 64 positive slide film (35mm), he captured hotels, motels, and beachfront architecture for commercial postcard production.
Printed in Miami through Dynacolor Graphics Inc. and Great American Color Co., Inc. using chromolithographic processes, these 1982 postcards are now considered vintage works historic analog artifacts that mark the airborne beginnings of RIKXECOM’s visual practice.
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Rooted in curiosity, critical thinking, and the freedom to experiment, his approach pushes the limits of visual expression through attentive observation and analytical exploration. Moving fluidly between photography, abstraction, mixed media, and hybrid processes, he investigates the plasticity of the image, often blurring the line between what is seen and what is felt. His work questions the very nature of the image itself, probing how perception shapes emotion, memory, and meaning.
Constantly evolving, RIKXECOM expands his expressive vocabulary through innovative material combinations, layered processes, and the fusion of multiple artistic languages into cohesive visual experiences. These hybrid forms reflect his commitment to exploring new territories of visual communication, where physical substance and digital transformation coexist within the same conceptual field. Underlying this evolving practice is a core philosophy that runs throughout his work: the transformation of energy into image, and image into consciousness.
Digital art has opened transformative pathways in his practice. Emerging technologies, including virtual and augmented reality, along with new generative and image-based tools, have broadened his modes of representation and deepened his exploration of immersive and conceptual creation. Across all mediums, his work remains guided by a central understanding: the image is not fixed, but alive shaped by light, perception, and consciousness.
As a contemporary artist, RIKXECOM challenges established conventions and embraces the unknown. His artistic journey is as rich and diverse as the techniques he has cultivated through decades of practice in the visual arts. Each work becomes an extension of his personal expression a dialogue between material, technology, and the deeper layers of human experience.
RIKXECOM’s practice aligns with international conversations around post-photographic transformation, generative image systems, and artistic AI futurism.
Yet remains distinct through its singular reliance on the artist’s own photographic authorship, long-term archive, and the process he defines as Plastic Photography a transformation of the image into a living field of abstraction, atmosphere, and visual consciousness.
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For RIKXECOM, digital refinement is not a secondary corrective step but an extension of tactile authorship the digital equivalent of layering, metal texturing, pigment modulation, and surface manipulation.
Through contrast, sharpness, tonal structure, color temperature, transparency, blending, and depth control, he translates physical sensibilities into electronically mediated form.
In this process, digital tools do not replace touch; they extend it, allowing surface, resistance, softness, tension, and visual depth to be articulated through a contemporary language of light, structure, and signal.
Permanent Exhibition National & International
2025 Permanent Exhibition in South Palm Beach, Florida City Hall "RIKXECOM Colors Swirl" gallery canvas
2023 Historical Collections at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Paul R. Harrington, MD, The Harrington Archives. "RIKXECOM Cypress" #3 of 13 collections gallery canvas
2024 Camp Papillon in Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez, Quebec, Canada "RIKXECOM Butterfly" 2 artworks both are butterfly on aluminum high gloss with aluminum frame.
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The Longest Landscape:
A Photo-Autobiography Through Selfies
My face has been my longest landscape.
For more than half a century, I have walked through light with a camera in my hand. Over time, I came to understand that the journey was not only outward, toward the world, but inward, toward myself.
The Longest Landscape is a continuing photo-autobiography through selfies an evolving body of self-portraiture in which my own face becomes a living archive of time, presence, memory, and change. These images are not casual self-recordings. They are moments of encounter: with age, with identity, with the visible and invisible traces of a life lived through photography.
Each selfie is a fragment of time suspended between intention and chance, between the hand that presses the shutter and the deeper currents that shape what the image reveals. In these works, I do not seek a fixed identity.
I seek the moving horizon of the self a self that continues to shift through light, shadow, and consciousness.
I have often thought of this search as the last photograph: the impossible image that might finally say everything. Yet the work remains unfinished. Each portrait opens onto another question, another layer of becoming.
These selfies are not mirrors. They are thresholds.
They trace the ongoing autobiography of an artist who uses his own face as both subject and mystery a life still being written through images.
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Artist Statement
My work explores the invisible architecture of reality: the movement of electrons, the flow of energy, and the translation of that energy into visual experience.
Life as we know it is nothing but a movement of electrons and so is my art.
Working across photography, digital abstraction, and generative systems, I approach the image as a field of energy rather than a static representation.
Light, color, and structure become the materials through which I investigate the relationship between technology, perception, and consciousness.
The works often emerge from a dialogue between human intuition and computational systems, where I guide generative processes through carefully constructed RicKART prompts and curatorial selection.
My practice is not about the machine producing images it is about the artist orchestrating possibility.
By directing multiple systems and evaluating thousands of outputs, I transform computational abundance into deliberate artistic form.
What is shown is only a small fraction of what is generated. Selection becomes the final brushstroke.
The visual language of my work frequently returns to fundamental digital structures such as the RGB color spectrum the numerical intensities that translate electronic signals into visible light.
These elemental systems mirror the underlying structures of nature itself patterns, movement, and transformation.
Throughout my career, my work has been exhibited internationally and presented across diverse platforms, reflecting an ongoing exploration of how contemporary art evolves alongside technological change.
Ultimately, my work asks a simple but profound question
If reality itself is an electrical phenomenon, then what is art if not the visible choreography of those electrons?
Through abstraction, technology, and intuition, I attempt to make that choreography visible.
Electrons become Light.
Light becomes Image.
Image becomes Consciousness.
Life is the movement of electrons and through abstraction, technology, and light, RIKXECOM makes that movement visible.
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Marfanite ™ ® "As a Marfanite artist, I draw strength from my diagnosis, channeling resilience into art that celebrates the beauty of difference and human triumph"
Art is Life
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Six soft cover publications done of RIKXECOM
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2026
1. Legal Identity
RichaR GobouT d/b/a Registration Number G23000064727
Professional / Artist Name: RIKXECOM Floria Registered Document Number L22000077006
Primary Income Source: Sale of original artworks, commissions, exhibitions, and digital art licensing
Full Name: RichaR GobouT d/b/a (doing business as)
Legal Birth Year: 1959 [NOTARIZED]
RIKXECOM Registered artist name in Florida
Florida Document Number: L22000077006
Nationality: Canadian‑American
Residency: Boynton Beach, Florida, USA
Occupation: Contemporary Artist Career Span: 57 years (visual arts, 1968–2025) / 43 years (professional studio practice, 1982–2025)
2. Professional Background
Contemporary artist with a long‑standing career spanning traditional, digital, and AI‑assisted mediums.
Known for multisensory, tactile abstract works designed for both sighted and visually impaired audiences.
Exhibited internationally across North America and Europe, with features in galleries, publications, and broadcast media.
Operates independently as a sole artistic practice; no complex business structures, subsidiaries, or beneficial‑ownership layers.
Maintains transparent, art‑based revenue streams consistent with the profile of a long‑established working artist.
Contemporary artist with 57 years of visual arts practice (1968–2025) and 43 years of professional studio-based career (1982–2025).
Self-taught monochrome photography (age 9); early professional earnings in ground/aerial photography (1976–1982); professional studio established (1982); acrylic-spray abstraction (2022–2025); AI-assisted curation (March–June 2023).
Spans traditional film, digital, and AI-assisted mediums.
3. Source of Wealth (SoW)
Lifetime career as a professional artist, including,
Sales of physical artworks,
Digital and AI‑assisted works,
Exhibition participation,
Licensing and publication features,
Additional background in sign‑making and visual communication early in career,
4. Geographic Footprint
Primary residence and studio in Florida, USA.
Artistic activity across, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe (various exhibitions and publications
5. Public Exposure
Public figure only in the context of the arts.
Not a Politically Exposed Person (PEP).
No known sanctions, adverse media, litigation, or regulatory concerns.
Public visibility stems from exhibitions, advocacy for accessibility in the arts, and media features.
I confirm that OFAC are not applicable to me.
6. Business Purpose for Platforms / Institutions
To sell, authenticate, or distribute artworks (physical or digital).
To receive payments for art sales, commissions, and licensing.
To participate in global art marketplaces, NFT platforms, and gallery networks.
To maintain transparent, compliant financial relationships aligned with artistic activity.
7. Risk‑Relevant Notes
Low‑risk profile under standard KYC/AML frameworks, Clear, legitimate source of wealth, Long, documented career
No complex corporate structures, No high‑risk jurisdictions, Artistic practice includes digital and AI‑assisted work, but all outputs are artist‑directed and intentionally curated.,
Verisart Verified RIKXECOM RichaR GobouT d/b/a
8. Summary Statement
RichaR GobouT d/b/a, (RIKXECOM) is a Canadian‑American contemporary artist based in Florida with a 50‑year career in traditional, digital, and multisensory art. His income derives exclusively from the creation and sale of artworks, exhibitions, and licensing. He has no political exposure, no adverse media, and no involvement in high‑risk industries. His professional activities are transparent, art‑focused, and conducted across North America and Europe.
Early Technical Foundations (Sheridan & Coconut Creek, 1977)
In 1977, RIK’s technical foundations were shaped through vocational electronics training in both Hollywood and Coconut Creek, Florida. At Sheridan Vocational‑Technical Center, and through additional technical coursework in Coconut Creek, he received hands‑on instruction in radio and television electronic repair, signal flow, and component‑level diagnostics.
Working directly with CRT systems and analog display circuitry, he learned the fundamentals of RGB color behavior, chroma/luma separation, and the internal logic of image formation knowledge that would later echo through his tactile and multisensory artistic practice.
During this period, Sheridan’s electronics program also received a surplus MODCOMP minicomputer previously used in NASA’s real‑time aerospace environments.
RIK was among the students who trained on this modular system, learning to troubleshoot backplanes, logic boards, and early digital architectures at a time when computer repair was not yet a formal discipline.
This placed him at the intersection of analog electronics, early computing, and visual signal systems years before personal computers became common.
By the time he graduated well before 1980 RIK had already developed a rare combination of skills: radio and television repair, RGB system understanding, digital logic, and hands‑on experience with NASA‑retired computing hardware.
These early technical experiences formed a deep internal framework that continues to inform his artistic approach, shaping his sensitivity to structure, perception, multisensory engagement, and the hidden systems that connect technology and human experience.
RIKXECOM Marfanite Bright Star
RIK CREATION #1925 Wednesday March 13th, 2023, 2:34:47 PM
Properties:
Dimensions 512 x 512
Width 512 Pixels
Height 512 Pixels
Horizontal resolution 96 dpi
Vertical resolution 96 dpi
Bit depth 24
RIKXECOM Official Logo since 2023
Certified on the Blockchain
RIKXECOM Marfanite Bright Star
The piece features:
Multi-dimensional chromatic sun a 3D-shaded solar core with live plasma filaments, 27 dynamic spike rays, and layered glow
Chrome geometry 20 orbiting faceted shards with reflective chrome gradients and inner specular facets
Orbital ring systems tilted elliptical rings scattered with glowing chrome beads
Zero-gravity particle field 180 depth-sorted particles in sphere drifting through 3D space
Warped grid overlay sinusoidal grid distortion in shifting spectrum hues
High-density color every hue cycles continuously through the full spectrum
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THE MARFANITE PERSPECTIVE
Diagnosed with Marfan's Syndrome in his pre-teens, RIKXECOM transformed a lifelong physical challenge into artistic resilience. His work celebrates the beauty of imperfection and human triumph, embodying a philosophy he terms "Marfanite visionary art" a practice informed by lived experience and indomitable creative spirit.
Coined "Marfanite" to describe his artistic identity as a creator shaped by Marfan's Syndrome. Rather than viewing the diagnosis as limitation, RIKXECOM has channeled it into a creative practice that celebrates resilience, difference, and the redemptive power of imagination.
Each "Marfanite" work carries within it the triumph of human spirit over physical adversity a signature philosophy distinguishing his abstract practice from contemporary peers.
RIKXECOM Artwork RIK CREATION "Crystal" is a set of 8 curating testing process done in March 2023
8 Different digital file versions:
1 RIK CREATION #473 1E GIF 123KB
2 RIK CREATION #473 TEST 1A.bmp 33KB
3 RIK CREATION #473 TEST 1B 16 COLOR.bmp 129KB
4 RIK CREATION #473 TEST 1C 256 COLOR.bmp 258KB
5 RIK CREATION #473 TEST 1G PNG.png 507KB
6 RIK CREATION #473 TEST 1F TIF.tif 561KB
7 RIK CREATION #473 TEST 1H HEIC.png 507KB
8 RIK CREATION #473 TEST 1D 24 BIT.bmp 769KB
Original RIK CREATION #473 Wednesday March 13, 2023, 9:41:47 AM never exposed currently in archive.
Crystal's Properties:
Dimensions 512 x 512
Width 512 Pixels
Height 512 Pixels
Horizontal resolution 96 dpi
Vertical resolution 96 dpi
Bit depth 24
RIKXECOM
Electrons become Light.
Light becomes Image.
Image becomes Consciousness.
E → L → A
Electrons → Light → Art
Rather than accepting algorithmic outputs, I curated many works from thousands+ possibilities selecting according to the same RGB continuum methodology that had informed five decades of traditional practice.
In 2022, I extended this methodology into physical media. Computer-assisted design software now mapped RGB color-space decisions onto precision acrylic-spray patterns the same curatorial framework that had guided 50 years of photographic practice.
My artist-directed spray sequences recorded on digital files replaced older algorithmic application; I adapted intentionality transcending mediums making deliberate choices within systems (film, digital sensors, color models).
RIKXECOM's very own, RicKART Proprietary Prompt Formulas
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