Ron Krouk

Education

Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts/ Medford,MA /  M.F.A in painting and printmaking

Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture/ Skowhegan, ME / Summer Resident Tuition Scholarship

Brandeis University, Waltham, MA / B.A in Psychology and Art (Magna Cum Laude)

Teaching Experience

Concord Art Association, Concord, MA

DanforthArt School, Framingham, MA

Rocky Neck Art Colony, Gloucester, MA

Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA

NewArt, Newton, MA

Massachusetts College of Art, Continuing Education Program, Boston, MA / Instructor in Etching

School of the Museum of Fine Arts Evening Division, Boston, MA / Instructor in Drawing

Tufts University, Graduate Assistant / Teaching Assistant, Introduction to the History of Art

Massachusetts Art Teacher Certification #0186963 11/14/1974

Exhibits

2023: Members Juried 1: Painting and Sculpture| Concord Art, Concord, MA| Juror: John Colan, Professor at Montserrat College of Art

2021 Out of the Blue (group show) |  Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA

2019 20th Annual Roddy Open Competition | Concord Art, Concord, MA |Juror: Josephine Halvorson, Professor of Art, and the Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting at Boston University

2019: Members Juried 1: Painting and Sculpture| Concord Art Association, Concord, MA | Jurors: Gail Boyajian and Gerry Bergstein

2018 19th Annual Roddy Open Competition | Concord Art, Concord, MA | Juror: Julie Bernson (for Sarah Montross), deCordova Museum

2018: Members Juried 1: Painting and Sculpture| Concord Art Association, Concord, MA | Juror: Debbie Disston, director of SNHU’s McIninch Art Gallery

2017: 18th Annual Roddy Open Competition | Concord Art, Concord, MA Juror: Ali Ringenburg, director of Sloan Merrill Gallery. Honorable Mention Prize for Hans’ Back, “A common scene, not commonly han-dled. Beautiful paint application, great depth and excellent color choices. An honest sincere painting.”

2017: Members Juried 1: Painting and Sculpture| Concord Art Association, Concord, MA | Juror: Joanna Fink, Alpha Gallery, Boston

2016: 17th Annual Roddy Open Competition | Concord Art, Concord, MA | Juror: Katherine French, Gallery Director for Catamount Arts. Honorable Mention Prize for George “Ron Krouk…built upon the painterly tradition of Fairfield Porter and others who worked during the “figurative fifties”

2016: Members Juried 1: Painting and Sculpture | Concord Art Association, Concord, MA | Jurors: Ellen Wineberg and Kathleen Daley co-owners of Room 83 Spring

2016: Finding Color: 4 person Group Show | Concord Art Association, Concord, MA

2015: 16th Annual Roddy Open Competition | Concord Art Association, Concord, MA | Juror: Jennifer Gross, Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs, de Cordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA

2015: Members Juried 1: Painting and Sculpture | Concord Art Association, Concord, MA | Juror: Mary Tinti, Curator Fitchburg Art Museum

2014: 15th Annual Roddy Open Competition | Concord Art Association, Concord, MA | Juror: Meg White, Director of Gallery NAGA, Boston

2014: Sight Specific – a selection of American Perceptual Paintings | Group Exhibition | Concord Art Association, Concord, MA

Perceptual Paintings,curated by George Nick, is one of the most significant undertakings to date for the Concord Art Association. For this show, Nick selects a range of artists from legendary to mid-career painters, assembling 70 paintings from more than 50 artists.

George Nick comments: “The goal of the show is to celebrate the tradition of careful observation as the basis for an important aspect of American painting and to emphasize the remarkable variety of imagery it has generated.”

Other Work Experience

IBM, Cambridge, MA

Global Constituency Program Manager: PwD,  Cross-Generational 2008 – 2010
 Diversity Business Unit Partner for Software Group and Global Business Services 2001 – 2008

Lotus Development Corporation, Cambridge, MA

Manager of Change Management and Diversity 1996 – 1999
STATEMENT
I have been fascinated by looking at drawings and paintings from my teenage years.  Since I started drawing myself I have been intrigued by the mystery of representing the three dimensional world in two dimensions. And since I started painting I have been seduced by the wonder of the process of seeing itself.  I hope this comes through in my work but I wouldn’t  claim that I make any attempt to put it there.    For me, the process of painting is a way to find something beyond the initial attraction of something I see and choose.  Most of what turns out to be worthwhile is elusively beyond my conscious control so I just try to keep painting, to get used to the idea that painting is continuous learning, and to accept that my work “is what it is”.