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Artist Statement:
Asheville
portrait painter Ron Ogle also
paints North Carolina
landscapes. "What we admire
about the body is more than
just its beautiful shape: it
is the radiance of and inner
flame which illuminates the
body." [RODIN] [ my oil
portraits start at $1600. ]
ron.ogle@gmail.com ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
Asheville portrait artist
Ron Ogle now exhibits
sixtyfour oil paintings,
including 23
portraits, at
DOWNTOWN BOOKS AND NEWS,
67 N. Lexington Ave.
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Artist Galleries:
Ron Ogle landscapes are now on
exhibit in
BELLA'S
32 Battery Park Ave.
Asheville, N. C.
828-254-3333
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Artist Reviews:
[ Connie Bostic, April 18,
2007, Mountain Xpress,
Asheville, North Carolina ]:
Ron Ogle is an artist who has
long expressed his love for
our area and his concern for
the earth. For years, he
stapled and pasted
environmental information
around town. He created a
huge collage about global
warming and deforestation...
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Collections:
Oil portrait of Al Pacino as
Serpico,
collection of Al Pacino's
oldest sister,
Santa Cruz, California.
Oil Landscape of Mt. Pisgah,
collection of Laurie Anderson,
[ that PERFORMANCE ARTIST ]
whom I knew in high school.
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Galleries:
Ron Ogle landscapes are now on
exhibit in
BELLA'S
32 Battery Park Ave.
Asheville, N. C.
828-254-3333
...
Further Information
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Artist Reviews:
[ Connie Bostic, April 18,
2007, Mountain Xpress,
Asheville, North Carolina ]:
Ron Ogle is an artist who has
long expressed his love for
our area and his concern for
the earth. For years, he
stapled and pasted
environmental information
around town. He created a
huge collage about global
warming and deforestation...
Further Information
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Collections:
Oil portrait of Al Pacino as
Serpico,
collection of Al Pacino's
oldest sister,
Santa Cruz, California.
Oil Landscape of Mt. Pisgah,
collection of Laurie Anderson,
[ that PERFORMANCE ARTIST ]
whom I knew in high school.
...
Further Information
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Ron Ogle Biography:
Biographical information for Ron Ogle can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
Age
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60
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| Education |
Bachelor of Fine Arts |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
1. Balancing smooth river-tumbled stones on rocks in certain mountain creeks when the sun shines.
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Rembrandt
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| Favorite Work of Art |
the female body
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
VISUAL ARTISTS: Rembrandt; MILLET; HIRAM WILLIAMS; MATISSE; Frank Stella; Grace Hartigan; Hokusai; Saul Steinberg; Malvina Hoffman; HIROSHIGE; GIORGIONE; ROAULT; COROT; Modigliani; Fanny Hillsmith; Chardin; Andy Goldsworthy; WILLIAM GLACKENS; Terrence LaNoue; Delacroix; FILIPPO LIPPI; Eliot Porter; Gauguin; Van Gogh; Diebenkorn: MONET; Chagall; DEGAS' drawings; Signac; RODIN; ROBERT HENRI and his book THE ART SPIRIT; Pieter Bruegel the Elder; MORISOT; Margaret Ross Tolbert; Jawlenski: Albert Pinkham Ryder; Hokusai; Sargent; TURNER; SAM FRANCIS; Joseph Raphael;
and Will Rodgers; Glenis Redmond; Kurt Vonnegut; Richard Feynman; Ella Fitzgerald; Clare Hanrahan; Ursula LeGuin; Natalie Merchant; Annie Dillard; RUMI; LINCOLN; Annie Lalley; Opal Whitely; Greg Brown; IRIS DEMENT; YOGANANDA; Sinead O'Connor; Samuel Clemons; Charles Frazier's novel COLD MOUNTAIN; Alison Krauss; THE FINDHORN GARDEN; Steinbech's LOGBOOK OF THE SEA OF CORTEZ; Cyd Charisse; Li Po; Robinson Jeffers; EMMYLOU HARRIS; Terence McKenna; Mary Travers; Samuel Mockbee; PAUL ROBESON; Patty Larkin [ TOO BAD ]; Toshiro Mifune; RILKE'S book LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET; twyla tharp; Frank Muller reading [BOOKS-ON-TAPE] Pat Conroy's THE PRINCE OF TIDES; Mark Knopfler; Defoe's ROBINSON CRUSOE; Jennifer Warnes; DICKENS' A Tale of Two Cities; Chrissie Hynde; Christine Lassiter; John Lilly; Margaret Atwood; CHARLIE CHAPLIN; Akira Kurosawa; Sara McLachlan; Wilber and Orville Wright; Cyd Charisse; Woody Guthrie; THOR HEYERDAHL; String Quartet number 2 in D by BORODIN; Jennifer Warnes; Jackie Robinson; Donald Sutherland; WHITMAN's introduction to his book LEAVES OF GRASS, which is only in the first edition; YES; Alan Watts; ANN DUNN; Nat King Cole; W. B. Yeats; PETER GABRIEL; Glenn Gould's recording of J.S.Bach's GOLDBERG VARIATIONS; Ram Dass; Jo Stafford; Jimi Hendrix; Edward Abbey; Rodgers and Hammerstein's CAROUSEL; THE CHICAGO ART INSTITUTE; GARY SNYDER'S journals; Barbara Cook; Kahil Gibran's THE PROPHET; Gene Kelly; Streisand; NOAM CHOMSKY; Tom Waits; Gershwin's PORGY AND BESS; Cate Blanchett; J.S. Bach's THE ART OF THE FUGUE; Cuba Gooding; ANI DIFRANCO!; the 1958 33 rpm record CHRISTMAS WITH THE TRAPP FAMILY SINGERS; Kevin Spacey; GREENPEACE; Merle Haggard; Hemingway's FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS; Jean Cocteau's 1946 movie BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, and the movies WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, THE ENDURANCE, METROPOLIS, CHAPLIN, IPHIGENEIA, KISMET, ELIZABETH, AMADEUS, XANADU, ORLANDO, the 1935 MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM, Cast Away, THE JERK, THE CORPORATION, GROUNDHOG DAY, and CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON; Fred Astaire; Joni Mitchell; sTEVE mARTIN; J.KRISHNAMURTI; Leon Russell; Johnathan Swift; Irving Berlin's EASTER PARADE; Steve McQueen as PAPILLION; The Byrds; Buddy Holly; Mahavishnu Orchestra's BIRDS OF FIRE; Robert A. Johnson; robin williams; swimming underwater; Rimski-Korsakov's SCHEHEREZADE; the Electric Light Orchestra; Michner's TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC; neil young/weld: CORTEZ; sleeping; Joni Summers; Schubert's AVE MARIA; dreams; Meryl Streep; THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART; ANNIE LENNOX; smooth stones; BEETHOVEN; Irish clover; TORI AMOS; dragonflies; CARL SANDBURG; Bonnie Raitt; birdsong
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
Why ? Rembrandt, Millet, Corot, Van Gogh, Modigliani,Arthur Rackham, marbles, sunlight, hand painted Japanese kites, Japanese paper decorations hanging sunlit in the wind,
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| Your Personal Biography |
My teachers : at Ferguson High School, Newport News, Virginia, MARY ELLEN TABACK - Geometry; George Chavatel - Art.
at the University of Florida: Hiram Williams - PAINTING. [ HIRAM WILLIAMS is appreciated as a gifted and perceptive teacher with a firm and fluent knowledge of the history of Western Art - a knowledge which he could communicate. He was an innovative and masterful draftsman and painter and a warm and engaging person ]; John Ward - Italian Renaissance Art History; Jerry Uelsmann - photography; DRAWING: Stuart Purser and Nate Shiner [Nathan Ruiz].
I am U.S. Navy Vietnam era veteran [Jan.1968- Nov.1971]. I was on AIRCRAFT CARRIERS.
I have been living in the towns and mountains of western North Carolina since 1988. I received my Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, where I studied architecture in 1965-67, and fine arts in 1972-75.
I worked as a volunteer for the SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BIODIVERSITY PROJECT.
I began painting in oils 35 YEARS ago. I have lived without a television since 1965. |
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| Artist Statement |
Asheville portrait painter Ron Ogle also paints North Carolina landscapes. "What we admire about the body is more than just its beautiful shape: it is the radiance of and inner flame which illuminates the body." [RODIN] [ my oil portraits start at $1600. ] ron.ogle@gmail.com |
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