Local Artist: Ron Baers

Montage:  “ The technique of producing a new composite whole from fragments of pictures, text or music”

A picture becomes a composite by combining several distinct images , or fragments of images, so they blend with or into one another.

An assembly of small details

A reviewer of my work wrote: “his work is intellectually creative.  Images of what you saw are reassembled creating an image of its own in an altered perspective.  The sky is blue but many blues, one bridge is two bridges, buildings are stretched and reshaped.

It teases the eye;  the rearrangements are dynamic, seem to move across the canvas, almost pulsate.

It crunches the mind:  what is real in the assembled images are seen as not real, but a recreation of what you saw, or didn’t see.”

My assemblages combine fragments of photos combined with paint and borrowed pieces from here and there.  I am interested in capturing a point of view which is expanded beyond what the eye sees.  I think what we see is at first whole, but then, as the eye wanders,  is fragmented into an infinite number of small pieces.  That’s what I enjoy, assembling small pieces into an unforeseen whole.

Ron Baers is an architect, urban designer and imaginer.  Born in Honolulu, Hawaii during World War II, he has travelled the globe for 80 years, for work, adventure and to discover art.  From big city to country village, he searches for surprise in all places big and small, and seeks to understand and capture in montage the unique human qualities that abound.