Rick Bach has proclaimed that he was born an artist and has been drawing for as long as he can remember.  He was influenced at an early age by his father who owned an auto body shop, just outside of Zelienople, which did custom paint work.  Rick graduated from Seneca Valley High School in 1979 and has made several guest speaking appearances with the school’s secondary art students over the past several years.

Bach is an artist who explores all media, including works on paper, metal fabrication, wood working, painting on aluminum, and filling hundreds of sketchbooks with experimental artistic engagements.  Rick is widely known in the Pittsburgh area, as his creations have found their way into tattoo studios, Jack’s Pub in the Southside, the Smiling Moose in Cranberry, and throughout the area’s Mad Mex locations. Bach’s motivation is to entertain and provoke while pushing the boundaries between conventional and absurd as well as exploring the functional and useless.  The artist currently resides in Washington, DC, while maintaining a studio in the Pittsburgh area