Price range: $3000-$70,000
1925 - 2009
Ronald Bloore
, CM, MA, LLD, DLitt
“White paintings represent freedom for the viewer.”
“Abstract art takes; non-representational art gives.”
“To me, as a painter, what is important is the service to which the art is put.”
“They’re all untitled. Why restrict your imagination?”
“I’m just a simple painter. I don’t make prints.”
“Photos don’t lie…but they don’t tell the truth either.”
“I am not aware of any intention while painting with the exception of making a preconceived image function formally as a painting.”
Available Works
Untitled 4, 1981
Untitled (Starry Night), 1980
Untitled, August 25, 1976, Byzantine Lights Series (760500825)
Untitled, March 2, 1980 (800302)
Painting, 1965 (650210022)
Untitled, Dec 18-24, 1991
Untitled, June-July 4, 1969
Untitled, 1960 (600140011)
Untitled 6, 1981
Untitled (803340606), 1981
Untitled 7, 1981 (SOLD)
Untitled 5, 1981
Untitled 2, 1981
Untitled, July 1983 (The Salerno Cathedral Ivory One)
Untitled, March 14, 1976 Byzantine Lights Series XII
Untitled, (Cris-Cross), 1981
Untitled, 19 (July 1-23), 1992
Untitled, July 1981 (810721)
Mont Blanc #2 ((19/4/94), 1994
Untitled (#940418), ca 1994
Catalogs
Clem Said Group Exhibition e-Catalog 2017
“ClemSaid” Group Exhibition:
Works by: Ronald Bloore, Ted Godwin, Dorothy Knowles, Kenneth Lochhead, and Harold Town
October 11 – 26, 2017
“ClemSaid” explores the relationships -from positive to negative- that this renowned critic had on 5 artists currently represented by Wallace Galleries.
Exhibition e-Catalog available HERE
The five artists; Ronald Bloore, Ted Godwin, Dorothy Knowles, Kenneth Lochhead, and Harold Town each had their own experiences and opinions on Greenberg and his views on [Modern] art.
As an influential art mind, Greenberg impacted the Canadian art scene with his visits, and his brief or lifelong connection with each artist exhibited had an impact on their art career in one way or another.
We invite you to enjoy the works and walk through a bit of history with each of these great artists… let your mind go & explore another world.
Ronald Bloore: “Untitled” Solo Exhibition e-Catalog 2016
Ronald Bloore: “Untitled”
October 20 – November 9, 2016
Preferring to leave his work untitled, Ron refuses to discuss the meaning or content of his art. He strongly believes this engages the viewer with the piece in an unrestricted way creating experience, feeling and meaning through personal perception.
To view the exhibition e-Catalog click HERE
Lochhead & Bloore Exhibition e-catalog 2021
Lochhead & Bloore Exhibition 2021
Lochhead and Bloore were both professors at the University of Regina in the 1950s-60s. Lochhead was head of the art department and Bloore was curator at the Mackenzie
Art Gallery. Both were instrumental in the action expression art movement in the 60s. Both with very different approaches to art but with a shared passion for creating and making art that brought them together. With McKay, Morton and Godwin, they became known as the Regina Five.
Their work more diverse and expansive throughout their careers then perhaps commonly known, this exhibition high lights the diversity, intellect, and devotion both
To view the exhibition e-Catalog, click HERE
Biography
Abstract painter Ronald Bloore is perhaps best known as a founding member of the Regina Five. Appointed Director of the Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery in 1958, Bloore created many exhibitions with a focus on contemporary Canadian painters.
In 1962, Bloore received a Canada Council Senior Arts Fellowship Grant, allowing him to live and work abroad for a year. During his travels to Greece, Turkey, and Egypt, Bloore became inspired by the symbolism and archaeological quality of the remaining architecture of these early civilizations. Upon his return to Canada the following year, Bloore destroyed all his previous work and renounced the use of colour, hoping to achieve the same transcendental quality he felt while looking at ancient architecture. He painted low-relief works in variations of white or black, often using a strong, graphic shape for his canvas (Painting, 1959). Eventually, he would make 3-dimensional Marquette of his pieces before constructing the full-sized versions, directly relating his work to monumental architecture. As the years progressed, Bloore reached even further back into history, including hieroglyphic, pictographic forms within his paintings, searching to communicate essential truths of the human condition.
Ronald Bloore studied Art and Archaeology from the University of Toronto (1949), and at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (1949-1951); at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (1953); at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London (1955-1957) and received honorary doctorates from York University and the University of Regina. Bloore taught art at many Canadian universities, and had many public commissions including a mural for Dorval International Airport (1968). He is a member of the Order of Canada (1993).