Ron Ald Ownbey A 60 Year Retrospective 1953-2013: from Mind Thru Hand |
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Interviewed By:
| Burnes, Fatemeh Burnes, Fatemeh |
Commentaries by:
| Frank, Peter |
Prepared for Publication by:
| Art Works Fine Art Publishing, |
ISBN: | 978-0-615-85686-5 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2013 |
Publisher: | Ronald B Ownbey
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $39.95 |
Book Description:
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A look at the work of artist Ron Ownbey over a 60 year journey of creative activity starting at the age of 14. From his teens, through a tour of duty with the US Army in Europe, college years at Mt. San Antonio College and the Otis Art Institute, his 35 years of teaching art at Mt. SAC and his retirement in 2000, he has and continues to create a personal vision which springs from his mind, is tempered by his heart and travels through his hand onto the paper, plate or canvas. In...
More DescriptionA look at the work of artist Ron Ownbey over a 60 year journey of creative activity starting at the age of 14. From his teens, through a tour of duty with the US Army in Europe, college years at Mt. San Antonio College and the Otis Art Institute, his 35 years of teaching art at Mt. SAC and his retirement in 2000, he has and continues to create a personal vision which springs from his mind, is tempered by his heart and travels through his hand onto the paper, plate or canvas. In summary, Art critic Peter Frank states "You might call all of Ronald Ownbey's mature work an unfurling of avatars. The avatars are not imagistic, however, so much as they are purely pictorial. His pictures are invested not with meaning(s), but with presence(s), shapes whose references are as various and manifold as the artistic languages Ownbey speaks. The "graphic condition" Ownbey manifests time and again provides him a flexible vessel to navigate the possibilities of visual invention. In the American tradition--particularly the Pacific (and Asian-tinged) tradition of formalized imagination - Ownbey's oeuvre has provided a place for images to emerge lucidly while staying elusive."