Uploaded October 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
Recorded and edited from a program where artist Ron Gianola and curator of education Jason Dake discussed Gianola's background, process, and work.
Ron Gianola drew from an early age. Growing up in Detroit, he was immersed in the rich automotive styling and music culture of the time. After attending the Center for Creative Studies in auto design, he eventually moved on to study Fine Art painting and drawing.
After the automobile as concept art, and a long series of representational figures, Gianola's first passionate subject was our northern Michigan landscape, done in a colorful, poetic style. His art evolved from there to a unique series of abstracted interiors; Passages. These led to his current series of color and music based paintings, and now drawings, involving an improvisation based on an intended or discovered structure, much like jazz.
Gianola's paintings are the result of a fifty-plus year long experience with the Art Spirit, pursuing the possibilities of a personal transformative vision, engaging emotion, expression, and the poetry of visual music.
Music by Jason Dake.
Recorded and edited from a program where artist Ron Gianola and curator of education Jason Dake discussed Gianola's background, process, and work.
Ron Gianola drew from an early age. Growing up in Detroit, he was immersed in the rich automotive styling and music culture of the time. After attending the Center for Creative Studies in auto design, he eventually moved on to study Fine Art painting and drawing.
After the automobile as concept art, and a long series of representational figures, Gianola's first passionate subject was our northern Michigan landscape, done in a colorful, poetic style. His art evolved from there to a unique series of abstracted interiors; Passages. These led to his current series of color and music based paintings, and now drawings, involving an improvisation based on an intended or discovered structure, much like jazz.
Gianola's paintings are the result of a fifty-plus year long experience with the Art Spirit, pursuing the possibilities of a personal transformative vision, engaging emotion, expression, and the poetry of visual music.
Music by Jason Dake.
