The Reconstruction, 1992
Oil on Canvas, 48" x 34"
Ron English was born in Illinois in 1966 and received his B.A. from the University of Texas in 1986. He began his artistic career making large-scale surrealistic photographs. After finishing graduate school he moved to New York, where he worked as one of many painters at Kostabi World, where thousands of paintings were produced and marketed under Mark Kostabi’s signature. English is among the young generation of artists working in the tradition of the Pop artists of the 1960s such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jasper Johns. His paintings are often humorous, even cynical, social commentaries, and symbols of money and power are important parts of his imagery.
*Excerpted from Tools as Art: the Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.