by Ron Fortier | Jul 23, 2024
2023/25 – NEWEST WORK About the New Work… These socially conscious expressionist explorations are emotional, declarative, and sometimes personal. They depict a psychoanalysis of individuals trapped by circumstances beyond their control. They are intended to...
by Ron Fortier | Sep 10, 2023
The GOR Series About the Galeria O Rastro Paintings The Galeria O Rastro or GOR Series was created for exhibition and representation while living in Portugal. I maintained a studio in Buarco, Figueira da Foz, from 2016 until I returned to the United States. I closed...
by Ron Fortier | Sep 10, 2023
The GER Series – Stolen in Chicago! About the Germany Paintings The Germany Paintings or GER Series were created for an exhibit in Kaiserslautern in September of 2016. The unsold pieces were later exhibited at the Uptown Gallery in Chicago, Illinois. Both...
by Ron Fortier | Aug 25, 2023
Small Abstract Work 2013 – 2019 About the Paintings Smaller abstract paintings – 16 x 20 inches. When creating these exercise paintings, the ultimate goal was to attempt to do the impossible and paint nothing. These works were approached as simply...
by Ron Fortier | Aug 25, 2023
2022/23 – NEW WORK – SINGLE PAINTINGS About the Paintings These are individual pieces – one-offs. This painting is of my father, Roland Fortier, whose mother died from tuberculosis when he was just shy of three years old. This first painting fuses...
