21 Facts About Ronnie Landfield

Ronnie Landfield was born on January 9,1947 and is an American abstract painter.

Ronnie Landfield continued his study of painting by visiting major museum and gallery exhibitions in New York during the early sixties and by taking painting and drawing classes at the Art Students League of New York and in Woodstock, New York.

Ronnie Landfield graduated from the High School of Art and Design in June 1963.

Ronnie Landfield briefly attending the Kansas City Art Institute before returning to New York in November 1963.

At sixteen Ronnie Landfield rented his first loft at 6 Bleecker Street near The Bowery, during a period when his abstract expressionist oil paintings took on hard-edged and large painterly shapes.

In February 1964, Ronnie Landfield traveled to Los Angeles; and in March he began living in Berkeley where he began painting Hard-edge abstractions primarily painted with acrylic.

Ronnie Landfield briefly attended the University of California, Berkeley and the San Francisco Art Institute before returning to New York in July 1965.

Ronnie Landfield moved into his loft at 94 Bowery in July 1967; there, he continued to experiment with rollers, staining, hard-edge borders, and painted unstretched canvases on the floor for the first time.

Ronnie Landfield was part of a large circle of young artists who had come to Manhattan during the 1960s.

Ronnie Landfield's painting Any Day Now, 1969,108 x 93 inches was acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Ronnie Landfield joined the Andre Emmerich Gallery in April 1972 one month after the David Whitney Gallery closed in March 1972.

Ronnie Landfield traveled throughout the southwest in 1973 and again in 1975.

Ronnie Landfield taught Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts from 1975 until 1989.

Ronnie Landfield had solo exhibitions or was included in group exhibitions in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, Paris, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC and Zurich, to name a few places.

Ronnie Landfield began extensive writing and lecturing about abstract painting from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s.

In 1994 Ronnie Landfield presided over two public panel discussions at the New York Studio School and the Tenri Institute both in Manhattan called Cool and Collected or Too Hot to Handle.

In 1996 Ronnie Landfield had a solo exhibition in Sapporo, Japan and lectured there on American art.

Ronnie Landfield has exhibited his work in important institutions and galleries for nearly five decades.

Ronnie Landfield currently is represented by the Findlay Galleries in New York and Florida.

Ronnie Landfield is, pure and simple, one of the best painters in America.

Ronnie Landfield's show Where it All Began was the debut exhibition at the gallery space of the High School of Art and Design in the fall of 2012.