See American artist’s work in the city
There’s still time to see work by American artist Ron Throop at two Lincoln venues.
Ron, who lives on the shore of Lake Ontario in New York state, has donated 50 paintings to the Mint Lane Wellbeing Hub in Lincoln to raise funds for its community work.
He makes art for free and considers it a privilege to be able to produce and give it to the public, but when he had no takers he threatened to burn his work each month.
Ron received a plea to save the paintings from Lincoln’s Donald Guy of the IncLLinc Gallery based at the hub and form the exhibition Just Another Break With the Warm and Normal
Some paintings will also be on display in the gallery windows at Decimal Place at 10 Burton Road throughout June.
Ron and Donald are both followers of Stuckism, a movement founded to promote figurative painting as opposed to concept art.
“I was in Lincoln recently and walked all about your beautiful city with Donald. The cathedral hill almost took my life,” said Ron, who also explained his exhibition’s title came from someone who had checked him out online and said he seemed ‘warm and normal.’
To Ron being ‘warm and normal’ is how he projects himself on the outside, but his paintings reveal deeper emotions: “Rage, anger, hurt, humour, sensitivity, joy, power, love, freedom, sadness, hope.
“I can’t hide from being a stark naked human inside, which is my inside-outside artistically, no matter how warm and normal I appear to be superficially.
“Practicing an art is a break with the warm and normal. Just don’t waste your opportunity for freedom by making ‘warm and normal’ art.”
https://incllinc.com/exhibitions/
