by Ron Fortier | Jul 23, 2024
2023/24 – NEWEST WORK About the New Work… I continue seeking new compositions through my abstract expressionist work and my socially conscious expressionist explorations. My abstract expressionist works are compositional studies and experiments. The socially...
by Ron Fortier | Aug 25, 2023
2022/23 – NEW WORK – SINGLE PAINTINGS About the Paintings These are individual pieces. Although I generally paint in series, I do paint one-offs. This painting is of my father Roland whose mother died from tuberculosis when he was just shy of three years...
by Ron Fortier | Aug 23, 2023
New Bedford Arctic Whaling Disaster of 1871 About the Series This series marked my return to the figurative narrative. My evolution from being a decorative painter to a declarative one continued with my America’s Guernica: Greenwood and Charity Ann: Gone! with...
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 and. the Black Wall Street Massacre to name just two. The paintings...
by ronfortier | Jun 23, 2022
CHARITY ANN: Gone! About the Series The Charity Ann Series revisits my wife’s enslaved third great-grandmother’s heartbreaking day when her two daughters were sold away from her. We do not know the third great-grandmother’s name or one of the...
