Duke Riley (artist)

The Acorn a replica of the Revolutionary War Turtle
A naumachia held in the Civic Arena of Milan in 1807

Duke Riley is an American artist. Riley earned a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a MFA in Sculpture from the Pratt Institute. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is noted for a body of work incorporating the seafarer's craft with nautical history, as well as the host of a series of illegal clambakes on the Brooklyn waterfront for the New York artistic community. Riley told the Village Voice that he has "always been interested in the space where water meets land in the urban landscape."[1]

  1. ^ Life of Riley Archived January 18, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, Silke Tudor, May 23, 2006, Village Voice