Ron Ewert
Ewert’s paintings use a variety of indexical makeshift printing processes that fix objects and actions into a graphic visual language, opening up and confusing the pathology of painting. Like Dylan’s lyrical folk-Dada mashup, these works speak to an accelerated pace of physical and psychic change, finding emptiness in a surplus of cultural noise.
Items of a certain color go into one pile, and the interest of the day leads me to make a separate pile over here, then I find a collection of light-bursts that I think should stay together so I do my best to make that happen, a separate group could be made based on their movement, or perhaps by who’s in the frame, or where I remember being when the images were generated. But no matter what the logic is, it always ends up broken. There are always outliers to any group or pile and others just float around aimlessly. There are always images that actually belong in another group but never seem to get there. They are lost sheep that have strayed from the herd and lack a caring shepherd to guide them home. To some degree I actually enjoy scattering them around. It provides new possibilities within what one feels they already know.
- Excerpt from Ewert's Thesis
EDUCATION
2012 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2012 OxBow School of Art, Saugatuck Michigan 2004 BFA, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design 2002 Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland
SOLO EXHIBITION
2025 I’ll keep it with mine, Good Weather, Little Rock, AR 2021 I was not aware of that, Good Weather, Chicago, IL 2018 I’m getting too old for this shirt, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta GA 2016 I need a new hot water heater, Mild Climate, Nashville TN 2015 I wish lunch could last forever, S1, Portland OR 2014 I would like to see what happens, Good Weather, North Little Rock, AR
TWO AND THREE-PERSON EXHIBITION
2023 eA2Mc0rE2gW3, Ei Arakawa, Mike Cloud, Ron Ewert, Good Weather 2020 Do u dig w/ Hubert Posey @ Circle Contemporary @ Arts of Life, Chicago, IL 2016 Hand of Mouth w/ Erin Washington, Roots and Culture, Chicago IL 2015 Aberrant Systems (with Tim Bergstrom and Richard Keely), Left Field, San Luis Obispo CA Time Flies Like A Banana (with Greg Ito and Josh Reames), Johannes Vogt, NY 2012 Downtown Bologna (with Leonardo Kaplan and Michael Kloss), New Capital, Chicago IL Conventional Wisdom (with Josh Reames), Autumn Space, Chicago IL SAIC MFA Exhibition (with Josh Reames and Caleb Sheridan), Sullivan Galleries, Chicago IL 2011 Abeaiaa Sligrsr Vrgiimn (with Michael Kloss and Dustin Ruegger), American Fantasy Classics, Milwaukee WI 2010 Lumpy Trouser Demons Etc…(with Michael Kloss and Dustin Ruegger), Northern Exposure, Chicago IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2024 Group Shop, Bridget Donahue, New York NY Yin Yang, Curated by Joshua Bennett, Tinney Contemporary, Nashville TN 2022 I feel like a bootlegger’s wife. Look!, Apparatus Projects, Chicago IL Loud, Lord, curated by Haynes Riley, Good Weather, Chicago IL 2019 Desolation Row, Good Weather, Chicago IL Summer Soup, 3434, Greenpoint NY 2018 Reunion Tour, Organized by Josh Reames, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago IL Zebra, Organized by Kate Levant and Jacques Vidal, Kaje Place, Brooklyn NY 2017 Vatic Utterance, curated by Sam Jablon, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn NY 2016 Shades, Bedfellows Club, curated by Jess Hirsch and Haynes Riley, Little Rock AR How High, curated by Travis Fish and Ryan Travis Christian, Left Field, SLO, CA
