(Wilkes-Barre)   The Sordoni Art Gallery will open the exhibition, A New Paradigm: Recent Work by Ron Ehrlich on Friday, October 17, with an opening reception on Friday, October 17, from 5-8 p.m. in conjunction with Wilkes-Barre’s Third Friday Celebration.  The exhibition will be on view through Friday, December 12, 2008. 

 

This exhibition features paintings by American painter Ron Ehrlich. Ron Ehrlich is known for achieving rich surfaces and subtleties of tone melding the techniques of vessel-making with the spontaneity and vitality of action painting. Working on panel, wielding a blowtorch as well as a brush, the brilliant colorist creates an art both vigorous and contemplative.

 

Born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1954, Ron Ehrlich received his BFA from Connecticut College in 1976. In 1979, he traveled to Japan to the Joji Yamasita monastery to study the art of Bizen pottery making. Intending to stay for five weeks, he stayed for five years. He returned to the US and studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Rhode Island School of Design. Ehrlich applied expertise in the techniques of three-dimensional work to two-dimensional painting resulting in a remarkable and unique body of work.

 

The Gallery is open daily, from 12 noon to 4:30 p.m. Admission is free. For more information, call 570-408-4325.