Ron Mills de Pinyas
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Complete Curriculum Vitae
Two-page artist resume below.
Represented:
In Barcelona and Amsterdam by Villa del Arte Galerie
In Mallorca/Hamburg by Kunsthaus Burg Vossloch
NARRATIVE BIOGRAPHY: Born in Missouri in 1952, Ron lived the first two years of his life in Germany, later in New Mexico, Arizona, Louisiana, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas before leaving for California in 1970, finally settling in Oregon in 1979 where he has lived and worked ever since. Ron is a working painter and Professor of Visual Culture at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. He has lived and traveled extensively in Latin America and Spain, particularly Catalonia, Costa Rica and Mexico. Ron continues to do work related to the visual cultures of indigenous Central American groups started as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in 1986 and again in 1994 with his research colleague, Dr. Jorge Luis Acevedo. He routinely exhibit in the US, Latin America and Europe and have major murals in Costa Rica, Mexico and Oregon. Married to María Isabel Pinyas de Mills, they live in the Eola Hills in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Ron has three sons and three grandchildren.
For prices, or to discuss a commission, CONTACT ME.
Complete Curriculum Vitae
Two-page artist resume below.
Represented:
In Barcelona and Amsterdam by Villa del Arte Galerie
In Mallorca/Hamburg by Kunsthaus Burg Vossloch
NARRATIVE BIOGRAPHY: Born in Missouri in 1952, Ron lived the first two years of his life in Germany, later in New Mexico, Arizona, Louisiana, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas before leaving for California in 1970, finally settling in Oregon in 1979 where he has lived and worked ever since. Ron is a working painter and Professor of Visual Culture at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. He has lived and traveled extensively in Latin America and Spain, particularly Catalonia, Costa Rica and Mexico. Ron continues to do work related to the visual cultures of indigenous Central American groups started as a Senior Fulbright Scholar in 1986 and again in 1994 with his research colleague, Dr. Jorge Luis Acevedo. He routinely exhibit in the US, Latin America and Europe and have major murals in Costa Rica, Mexico and Oregon. Married to María Isabel Pinyas de Mills, they live in the Eola Hills in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. Ron has three sons and three grandchildren.
Watch your breathing for a while until you have cleared your mind. Look at the painting.
Do this for a long time.
~ John Gregory, September, 2011
Ron Mills de Pinyas paintings point to what in creation is, fragile, even possibly frail in a world of powerful simmering explosions of color and beautiful molecular sub realities. The delicate and sometimes daunting balance in nature we sense when we see Mills’ s best work has nothing to do with insubstantiality, but rather his work evokes what is truly essential, uncovering the fundamental nature of being beyond individual parts to show true essence. We see organic raw material mingled to become enigmatic organisms with self will. Are we viewing construction or deconstruction? The emerging or submerging in the primordial soup of life? Are we witnesses to active forces creating, evolving slowly from essence through individual definition of parts to the final becoming of an organism or are we viewing the reverse process?
The becoming is governed by the essence of what is trying to push to the foreground. It can feel threatening because it feels unstable to the observer and unveils what we have always feared deep inside, that the world is capricious and unpredictable. We are confronted with the dichotomy of creation, good and evil, but mostly the uneasy feeling of randomness in creation. The possibility, likelihood, of this wantonness in creation challenges our determinist view and the sense of order we labor to bring to our lives. We can experience the deconstruction of what is, threatening what we think as concrete and real. In Mills’ paintings we do not know if we are seeing the beginning or the end, but we know we are seeing the essence of organic life going through molecular metamorphosis with all its colorful, textural, and at times terrible beauty.
~ María Isabel Piñas Espigulé, March, 2010
PDF download of 2010 catalog and extended essay Painting to Be by art critic and historian Brian Winkenweder
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