Ron Ehrlich: Wild Horses July 12 - August 25, 2013

RonEhrlich WILD HORSES

Ron Ehrlich WILD HORSES JULY 12 - AUGUST 25 . 2013

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cover: Africa, oil & mixed media on panel, 48” x 48”

Combining the very American dynamic of action painting with the Japanese aesthetic of wood-fired Bizen ceramics, Ron Ehrlich’s surfaces explode with physical energy. He forges new strength into his art with figurations of wild horses in innuendo of their untamable brute force and graceful allure, reflecting the intense passion the artist is acclaimed for bringing to painting. Densely layered compositions radiate with splatters, floods and drips of rich hues—carmine reds, glacier blues, canary yellows, ochre, ivory, terracotta, and bone white—juxtaposing textures and colors into a perfect balance.

Bound: American Art on the Brink of the 21st Century, which presented the work of 100 American artists in an exhibition that traveled to major venues in China, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim. He was also invited to participate in an exhibition of Korean and American painting at the Art Museum of the Sejong Center for Performing Arts in Seoul, Korea.

To achieve these animated yet meditative surfaces—some glistening and others matte—Ehrlich mixes recipes of oil, wax, lacquer, shellac, porcelain dust, and marble dust. Scratching, layering and painting, he then turns a blowtorch on some areas to fuse the materials into a lustrous glazed finish. “Ehrlich’s paintings are distillations of thought, emotion, and sensation organized as a unifying quality that is never static and never fixed,” says art critic and Pratt Institute professor Dominique Nahas for the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art. Ehrlich received his BFA from Connecticut College in 1976. Several years later, he traveled to Japan where he lived in a monastery and studied classical pottery making for five years. On his return to the U.S., he studied at the Kansas City Art Institute for two years and then the Rhode Island School of Design for another two. He was selected for Outward

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Solar, oil & mixed media on panel, 24.25” x 23.75”

Sturdy, oil & mixed media on panel, 22” x 30”

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Stampede, oil & mixed media on panel, 40” x 50”

Mojo, oil & mixed media on panel, 96” x 96”

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Mambo, oil & mixed media on panel, 50” x 48”

Rabbi, oil & mixed media on panel, 78” x 54”

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Yellow Tail, oil & mixed media on panel, 48” x 36”

August II, oil & mixed media on panel, 48” x 48”

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Jamaica, oil & mixed media on panel, 71” x 71”

Hustler, oil & mixed media on panel, 36” x 36”

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Calypso II, oil & mixed media on panel, 71” x 71”

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A Turn of Fate, oil & mixed media on panel, 60” x 60”

A Sense of Place, oil & mixed media on canvas, 47.5� x 72�

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