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 | 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...
by Ron Fortier | Aug 23, 2023
New Bedford Arctic Whaling Disaster of 1871 About the Series The and Charity Ann: Gone! series marked the shift from being a decorative painter to a declarative one. It continued with America’s Guernica: Greenwood. The New Bedford Arctic Whaling Disaster of...
by ronfortier | Jun 23, 2022
AMERICA’S GUERNICA: Greenwood About the Series The ten-painting America’s Guernica: Greenwood series commemorates the atrocity of the incident known by several names, the Tulsa Massacre, AKA, the Black Wall Street Massacre. The series was created on the...
by ronfortier | Jun 23, 2022
CHARITY ANN: Gone! About the Series The Charity Ann Series revisits the story passed down from generation to generation of the enslaved third great-grandmother of the artist’s wife. Her two daughters were sold away from her to Reverand Isaiah Parker of Harris...
