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| Bannister
Gallery November 10-30 Artist Ron Ehrlich – a Rhode Island School of Design graduate – will display his works in Bannister Gallery from Nov. 10-30. Ehrlich’s paintings combine an American dynamic of action painting with the Japanese aesthetic of wood-fired Bizen ceramics of Japan, where he studied pottery making in a monastery for several years. Ehrlich won First Prize in the Newport Museum of Art Members Exhibition and received the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Fellowship’s Fritz Eichenberg Award. This year, he exhibited solo at the Stephen Haller Gallery in New York City. Ehrlich’s subject matter is elusive. Horses and figures emerge from a complex network of aggressive markings and delicate lines, then recede back into abstraction, defying the “reality” of the glimpsed image. The technical complexity of the painting, extrapolated from the intricacies of Japanese pottery making, is an intensification of conventional oil painting with the use of a blowtorch to fuse multiple layers of oil paint and sand into a fascinating and delightful surface. This exhibition is curated by Lisa Russell of the Rhode Island College art faculty in collaboration with Stephen Haller Gallery. Exhibits and events are free and all are invited to attend. |
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