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Email PageRon Ehrlich 2006
February 25, 2006- April 4, 2006
Ron Ehrlich
Stephen Haller Gallery
542 W 26th St Ron Ehrlich Untitled (2005) |
A brilliant colorist, Ehrlich attacks his work with an energy that is exciting to behold - marking, gashing, splashing, burning, tossing, scraping, and brushing, he achieves extraordinarily rich surfaces and remarkable subtleties of tone. Yet, this is American action painting with a difference - utterly contemporary because it is informed with highly sophisticated techniques borrowed from the other side of the globe - Japanese Bizen pottery making.
Ehrlich spent over five years in Japan studying this disciplined Asian art and returned to the U.S. to meld the three dimensional techniques of vessel-making and glazing with the spontaneity and vitality of two dimensional painting.
Ehrlich moves around his studio with an astonishing vitality: enlisting paint, raw pigment, wax, marble dust etc. to add to the pastiche of his surface materials, reaching to add an elegant curving line of crayon, hurling an industrial size brush-load of paint in a sudden graceful arcing toss, and meticulously blowtorching a melting stream of paint, flames trailing his gesture. Watching him paint is an electrifying experience.
Ron Ehrlich inhabits his studio with a charged energy. With a rare level of skill and a complex methodology he tackles his paintings with a contrasting muscularity and deliberateness that results in an art both vigorous and contemplative.
The art of Ron Ehrlich is suffused with the vitality and power of nature, which seems to be his underlying narrative. His is the work of a contemporary American romantic, a fine example of the art world’s much-heralded return to an appreciation of beauty.
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