UPDATED 3/24/01

 

Artists Portfolio: Ron Pieniak

 "Luna"
Oil on linen jute 40"x50" 2000
"2-Faced Dog" Oil on canvas
22"x28" 2000 
"Blondie"
Oil on canvas 22"x28" 2000 
     
"Harlequin Dog" Oil on canvas
22"x28" 2000 
 "Girl in Purple jacket" Oil on canvas
22"x28" 2000
 "Nymph" Oil on canvas
48"x60" 2000
     
"Still Life w/ Skull" Oil on canvas
50"x40" 2001
"Objects 1" Oil on canvas
60"x36" 2001
"Flowers in a Striped Vase" Oil on canvas
18"x32" 2001
"Karen" Oil on canvas
22"x28" 2000
"Star & Moon" 46" x 60" oil/canvas 1999 Collection of Brett Verona "Woman with Flowers" 48" x 50" oil/canvas1999
"Ancient Fish" 23"x16" oil/canvas 1999 "New Girl with Dragonflies" 48" x 60" oil/canvas Private Collection, New York   "Mother & Daughter" oil/canvas 1994 Collection of Jim & Barbra Beeler

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Gallery: Baisden Gallery in Tampa

all images above are copyright Ron Pieniak

ALSO: See POWER PACKED a collaborative painting project with David Williams

SHOWS

GROUP & JURIED EXHIBITIONS1990: "New Visions" Annual Juried Members Exhibition, The Center for Contemporary Art, Tampa, Florida, Juror; Ann Holcomb1992: "Point of View," Pleides Gallery 10th Annual Juried Exhibition; Pleides Gallery, New York, New York. Juror; Dan Cameron (Art Critic & Curator)

1992: "Aesthetic Intoxication," Group Show Invitational; Brad Cooper Gallery, Ybor City, Florida

1992: "Flea Soap: Artists Against Hate,"Invitational Exhibition; Titanic Anatomy, Ybor City, Florida

1993: "Cuban Sandwich Show," Invitational Exhibition,; Still & Moving Gallery, Tampa, Florida1993: "4th Annual All-Florida Biennial," Juried Exhibition, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida Juror; Jan Avgikos

1993: "New Directions '93," National Juried Exhibition; Barret House Galleries, Poughkeepsie, New York; Juror; Adam Weinberg (Curator-Whitney Museum of American Art)

1994: "The 14th Juried Members Show," Juried Exhibition; Florida Center for Contemporary Art, Tampa, Florida, Juror; Robert Fichter

1995: "New Directions," Invitational Exhibition; Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, Florida

1995: "Seventh Annual All Florida Spring Juried Exhibition"; The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, Florida, Juror; Christoph Gerozissis (Curator of Exhibitions, Polk Museum of Art)

1995: "Fifteenth Annual Juried Exhibition" Florida Center for Contemporary Art, Tampa, Florida; Juror; Wallace Wilson

1996: "The Cuban Sandwich Show" Invitational Exhibition; Still& Moving Gallery, Tampa, Florida; Curator; David Audet

1996: " Eighth Annual All Florida Spring Juried Exhibition"; The Art Center, St. Petersburg, Florida; Juror; Neil Watson (Curator of Exhibitions & Contemporary Art)

1998:"Money" Invitational Exhibition; Gallery 145, St. Petersburg, FL; Curator, Tiffani Szilage

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1995:"Desperate Fun" The Central Library Gallery, Tampa, Florida

1995: "The End of The Avant- Garde" Laura Hall Gallery, Tampa, Florida

1998:"Replicas" Art & Java, Ybor City, Florida

PERSONAL

Ron Pieniak

1956 Born in Detroit, Michigan. 1970 Family moves to Dunedin, Florida.

1974-1975 Attended St. Petersburg Jr. College, has first solo exhibition at the student gallery. 1976 Traveled to Austria to attend a summer long painting seminar conducted by Professor Ernst Fuchs. 1978 Moved to New York City.

1979-1981 performed in the punk band "Testors" at Various N.Y.C. clubs including CBGB's & Maxs Kansas City.

Worked as an artist at Alva Museum Replicas. 1982 Moved back to Florida and began a career as a graphic artist. 1985 Moved to Tampa for a position in advertising as an Art Director. 1986-1988 Received multiple Addy Awards for several national consumer magazine ad campaigns. 1989 Returned to painting and began exhibiting regularly. 1990 to Present Works and lives in Tampa, divides his time between commercial art and painting.

CONTACT

11328 N. Rome Ave., Tampa, Florida, 33612

Telephone 813-930-2762, Fax 813-930-0523

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