Opening Reception on Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 6.30-8.30pm

Rosenbaum Contemporary is pleased to present Ron Ehrlich opening Thursday, April 2nd and continuing through April 30th, 2009. There will be a public reception held on Thursday, April 2nd from 6:30-8:30PM.

A brilliant colorist, Ehrlich approaches the canvas with exciting energy. He achieves extraordinarily rich surfaces and remarkable subtleties of tone by using various techniques like splashing, burning, tossing, scraping, and brushing. This is American action painting with an Asian difference. Ehrlich borrows techniques from Japanese Bizen pottery making.

Ehrlich spent over five years in Japan studying this disciplined Asian art and returned to the U.S. to incorporate the three dimensional techniques and glazing processes with the spontaneity and fluidity of two dimensional painting.

Ehrlich moves around his studio with an astonishing energy: employing many materials in his mixed media paintings on board. Paint, raw pigment, wax, marble dust is employed to add to the patina of his surfaces materials. Elegant curving lines of crayon, throwing huge brush-loads of paint in a sudden toss, and carefully blowtorching streams of paint, flames trailing his every gesture. Watching him paint is an exercise in energy!

In the catalogue essay to Ron Ehrlich’s 2008 exhibition at the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art in Missouri, Art Critic Dominique Nahas describes his work:

At the heart of Ehrlich’s work is its ferocious daemonic energy, which pulsates throughout the work. Energy pours, it seeps, it runs, it scrawls, it scours, it rasps, it peeks through every crack, every rivulet, every grain, every rupture, every streak, every blur, every spot, every scratch, every abrasion. And if obliteration and eradication and defiling, and the puncturing of the skin of his bodies of art take place so, too, is that same surface- skin caressed, smoothed, stroked, lathered, layered, enwrapped, muffled, balmed, and given over to every blandishment. The artist’s works are startling in their boldness and directness and surprising in their infinite subtleties, nuances and modulations of mark making and texture and color revealed slowly both from afar and up close.

For further information and images, please contact:

Jo Mett
Rosenbaum Contemporary & RC2
Gallery Center
608 Banyan Trail
Boca Raton, FL 33431

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