I hope this finds you well and enjoying spring time. I am pleased to announce my exhibition at Oliver Art Center. Please come out and enjoy 70 works; from landscape through the recent music based color abstractions, with some drawings, a recent development. This will be my first exhibition at the art center since 2012.

It opens Friday May 14th and runs through Friday June 18th.

 Due to covid there will not be a reception. Oliver Art Center is following all expected covid precautions. I will be there Friday afternoons from 3 pm to closing at 4:30 pm to chat. Those of you local and in Traverse City might be wish to visit my studio east of Honor on the way to Frankfort. Feel free to contact me.

 In addition, during the exhibition I will be teaching a painting class "Focus On Color" in oils or acrylics, June 8 & 9, as well as August 17 & 18. Details at the Oliver Art Center web site.

 The exhibition also features two other artists, Cara O’brien and Diane Zoellmer, both from Whitehall, MI.

 We hope to see you there!

Happy to say I have 10 paintings in the Dennos Museum shop for sale, value priced. Reflecting my recent painting on loan, they are my colorful abstracts based on our northern Michigan landscape, with strong music based influences. Sun - Th 11-4.

Created for the performance of the Marcus Belgrave Jazz Concert
in the Milliken Auditorium of the Dennos Museum on April 13, 1996.

Recently entered the Permanent Collection of the Dennos Museum.

At the invitation of jazz musician Jeff Haas I painted “You’ll Know When You Get There” in 1996 to compliment the jazz music of the Marcus Belgrave Quintet,

to be displayed above the band at Milliken Auditorium. The title is from Herbie Hancock.

Starting a fifteen foot piece with no preconceived intention, I reached down deep to create this, not knowing I would return to this source more than twenty years later.

Drawing from: my long time listening to, and playing, jazz and creative instrumental improvisational music, the Bitches Brew fusion esthetic of Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Weather Report,

and the ongoing rich musical legacy of Detroit, my home for 45 years, this musical color composition involves harmony, dissonance, rhythm, calm, tension, motion, rest, and balance,

using improvisation over an intended or discovered structure. This painting led to my current color harmony paintings based in part on the music on the 1100 albums of the European creative music label ECM.

Passage #171 14 x 16 oil

Passage #169 20 x 8 oil $600

Passage #100 48 x 16 oil 48" x 16" Sold

Passage #115 21 x 7 oil $400

Passage #168 20 x 8 oil $600

River Dune 20 x 20 oil $470

Oahu 11 x 14 acrylic $440

Kailua #10  11 x 14 acrylic Sold

Retreat #14 11 x 14 oil   Sold

Passage #73 10 x 10 oil Sold

Retreat #24 16 x 20 oil $800

            I will offer additional work for sale in the future. The site has a total of 250 paintings, a new longer biography, and is   viewed best on a larger screen. My work will be on other online sales sites in the future, so please check back.

My latest work continues to focus on color, featuring abstract compositions consisting of layers of improvisation over a visual structure, similar to some creative music, in particular the music beyond category of the ECM label.

Inside Out #35 20 x 16 oil $650

Passage #78 12 x 12 oil $460

559.2 6 1/2 x 10 Prismacolor on Canson Paper Sold

Retreat #25 12 x 16 oil $480

Retreat #41 10 x 10 oil $190

Retreat #24 24 x 10 oil Sold

Inside Out #3 10 x 10 oil $280

Inside Out #7 14 x 11 oil $320

Passage #66 34 x 40 oil Sold

Windows #5 14 x 11 oil $240

Retreat #33 16 x 16 oil Sold

Passage #172" 14 x 14 oil

Passage #170 14 16 oil

Passage #167 20 x 20 oil

Passage #166 28 32 oil

Passage #165 6 x 6 oil Sold

Passage #164 6 x 6 oil Sold

Passage #179 10 x 14 oil

Passage #177 11 x 14 oil

Passage #176 20 x 20 oil

Passage #175 6 x 8 oil

Passage #173 20 x 20 oil

Passage #180 11 x 14 oil

Passage #178 11 x 14 oil

6 x 6 1/4 Ink & Prismacolor Pencil on Canson Mi-tientes Paper

8 x 10 Charcoal

9 x 9 Charcoal

8 x 9 Charcoal

8 x 8 Ink & Prismacolor Pencil

8 x 9 Charcoal & Prismacolor Pencil

#566.2 8 8 Ink and Prismacolor

#568.9 9 x 12 Art Stix on Canson

#568.8 8.5 x 10 Ink and Prismacolor

#568.7 8.5 x 10 Ink and Prismacolor

#568.6 9 x 12 Art Stix on Canson

#568.5 8 x 8 Ink and Prismacolor

#568.4 8.5 x 10 Ink and Prismacolor

#568.3 8 x 10 Ink and Prismacolor

#568.2 8 x 8 Ink and Prismacolor

#568.1 8 x 8 Ink and Prismacolor

#561.3 8.5 x 10 Prismacolor on Canson

#565.2 8.5 x 10 Prismacolor on Canson

#565.1 10 x 8.5 Prismacolor on Canson

#563.3 8.5 x 10 Ink and Prismacolor

#561.1 8.5 x 10 Prismacolor on Canson

#563.2 8.5 x 10 Prismacolor

#563.1 8.5 x 10 Ink and Prismacolor "Autumn Leaves on the Platte River"

#566.1 8 x 8 Ink and Prismacolor

#562.10 8.5 x 10 Prismacolor on Canson

#562.9 8.5 x 10 Prismacolor on Canson

#562.8 5.5 x 5.5 Prismacolor on Canson

#562.7 5.25 x 5.75 Prismacolor on Canson

#562.6 4.25 x 3 Prismacolor on Canson

#562.5 8.5 x 10 Prismacolor on Canson

#562.4 8.5 x 10 Prismacolor on Canson

#562.3 8.5 x 10 Prismacolor on Canson

#562.2 8.5 x 10 Prismacolor on Canson

#561.2 8.5 x 10 Prismacolor on Canson

#561.5 8.5 9.88 Prismacolor on Canson

#561.4 8.5 x 10 Prismacolor on Canson

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"To see far is one thing, going there is another" Constantin Brancusi

Ron Gianola

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Ron was born in Detroit and attended The Art School of the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts, later Center for Creative Studies.  He has had many solo and juried group shows as well as commissions. His work is a unique artistic vision in a contemporary style, embodying the essential mystery and spiritual beauty of nature and the human psyche.
"Rather than depict the specific, I use veils of color in a personal, poetic manner using a harmony of forms from observed, created, and remembered sources.  I paint with enough content that the mind and imagination are pleased and with enough literal image that the eye is also satisfied. Hopefully, my art conveys a sense of art spirit, balance, and beauty."

Summer Serenade 3' X 6' oil Honorable Mention, 1996 Northwest Michigan Regional Juried Exhibition,Dennos Museum Center, Traverse City,MI Juror: Maryann Wilkinson, Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

Passage #15 36 x 12 oil

Passage #17 34 x 40 oil