RON HICKS
“Recent Paintings”
Also Available Ron Hicks’ depictions of the ethereal figures paintings can be found somewhere between abstract painting. The images create a between revealing too much and too little. mean I see things more in terms of shape about shape, medium shape vs. large shape, His paintings have an emotional and moody palette and more recently, the
Available figures that inhabit his deeply emotional between the worlds of representational and dance that presents a delicate balance little. “I’m a shape guy,” he says.“By that I shape rather than the people. Everything is shape, lighter shape vs. darker shape.” moody tone, which he achieves through his tactile qualities of his works.
“I found that I was using representational art as a pretext to keep my work a certain way, That’s what I was hiding behind. And to get out, I had to move toward my own truth and do it in a creative way that wasn’t dictated by rules and discipline. There is this notion that, ‘This is what art is.’ And it doesn’t have to be.”
“Figures have always been in my work, but now I’m starting to think of them abstractly, in some of these new pieces I could have gone in and rendered them completely, but I have new ideas that I’m still working through. They are in all aspects of my work: shape, value, color and tone. want to look at everything differently.”
