Flare Up II 2024

Ron Mills

Metal paintCanvasAcrylicPaint
170 ⨯ 170 ⨯ 4 cm
ConditionExcellent
Price on request

Villa del Arte Galleries

• About the artwork
  Ron Mills is a muralist, a painter and a printmaker living in Spain and the United States. His current series of large-scale pieces are gestures toward the unknowable, the infinitely intricate and immense dimensions of the universe, inner and outer that compose and surround us. The textured metallic pigments and paint surfaces shimmer as we move around them, creating inviting multi-layered veils that remind of our deepest desires to explore without naming. He achieves this effect by using acrylic paint over heavy gel that is branch-patted with metallic and other powdered pigments on the canvas. The eye is compelled to scan, to dwell in fascination, to embrace that which is greater than a single narrative or illusory image. He claims: “Beauty is to me found when the mind reaches its end point. When words fail. To engage this aspiration, as a painter, I court images that are not previously known or named, in passages that hint at luminous sources often behind ‘the thicket’ of confusion, unresolved flux and serendipity.”
• About the artist

  Ronald DeWitt Mills (later Mills-Pinyas) is a studio painter, printmaker and muralist.

  Ron currently lives with his wife Maria Isabel Pinyas-Mills in Arenys de Mar, Spain and in Amity, Oregon.

  Mills-Pinyas holds a BA in studio art and philosophy from the University of California, Santa Barbara en 1973 and and a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California in studio art and philosophy en 1976.

  As a professor, Mills-Pinyas developed curriculum and taught various courses in drawing, painting, printmaking, thesis, multi-media art forms, design and art theory.

  Ron Mills' paintings reveal what is weak in creation, fragile and delicate, in a powerful world that is alive with explosions of color and beautiful molecular sub-realities.

  In Mills' work we can experience the deconstruction of what is, and the threat to what we think is concrete and real. We do not know whether we are witnessing the beginning or the end, but we know that we are witnessing the essence of organic life through molecular metamorphosis in all its color, texture, and sometimes its terrible beauty.

  

   

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