Ron Gianola drew from an early age. Growing up in Detroit, he was
immersed in the rich automotive styling and music culture of the
time. After attending the Center for Creative Studies in auto
design, he eventually moved on to study Fine Art painting and
drawing. After the automobile as concept art, and a long series of
representational figures, Gianola's first passionate subject was
our northern Michigan landscape, done in a colorful, poetic style.
His art evolved from there to a unique series of abstracted
interiors; Passages. These led to his current series of color and
music based paintings, and now drawings, involving an
improvisation based on an intended or discovered structure, much
like jazz. Gianola's paintings are the result of a fifty-plus year
long experience with the Art Spirit, pursuing the possibilities of
a personal transformative vision, engaging emotion, expression,
and the poetry of visual music.
A short excerpt is on the museum site
permanently:
20 questions
interview with
Oliver Art Center Director Mercedes Michalowski.
Oliver Art Center Director Mercedes Michalowski.
Please
enjoy my interview on 9&10 news.
click for early close up of Passage #151
Please enjoy
my interview on TV7&4 news.
click for a northern Michigan studio visit...
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for a Hawaii studio visit...
click for early close up of Passage #151
