Honorable Mention at Concord Art Roddy 18th Annual Competition 2017
Juried by Ali Ringenburg, director of Sloan Merrill Gallery. Quote from the juror about the painting HAN’S BACK “A common scene, not commonly handled. Beautiful paint application, great depth and excellent color choices. An honest sincere painting.”
Honorable Mention for the painting GEORGE in the 17th Annual Frances N. Roddy Open Competition 2016 at Concord Art
Juried by Katherine French, Gallery Director for Catamount Arts. Quote from the juror: “Ron Krouk … built upon the painterly tradition of Fairfield Porter and others who worked during the figurative fifties”
Boston Globe Review by Sebastian Smee of Site Specific show
“… But of course, good painting need not involve polar bears or imported fancies. A marvelous painting here by Ron Krouk, for instance, is simply a still life. Bread, two vessels, and a yellow carton of some kind arranged on a table behind a flat, reflective rectangular shape that might be an iPad or the case of the “CD” that provides the painting’s title.
Painted thickly and with a cakey facture that suggests the pushing and pressing of a palette knife, the picture is riveting. The blue interior of one copper vessel chimes with the intense yellow carton (what is this package?), and together they animate colors and forms — shiny copper, warm bread — commonly associated with more conventional still lifes. The glossy surface of the iPad or CD case reflects darker shadows, hinting at frictionless digital visions — an antithesis to the slow, textured accumulations of Krouk’s paint.”
Sebastian Smee in the Boston Globe
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A chance meeting with a Boston Globe photographer in 2012. Click HERE.