The B Family
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Title
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The B Family
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Creator
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Ron Hinson
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Artist ID
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177
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Date of Work
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1988
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Description
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Three abstract figures made of shapes. Two wear dresses and one wears jeans.
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Category of Media
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Sculpture, relief
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Media
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acrylic on masonite and wood
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Accession Number
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2012.001
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Location
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display: Library Building, 2nd floor, library proper, base of stairs
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Date Acquired
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2012
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Acquisition Method
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Donation, unrestricted
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Dimensions of Work
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73" x 96" x 12"
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Donor or Seller
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Ron Hinson
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Donor ID
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177
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Artist Bio
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Olympia, Washington-based artist and teacher Ron Hinson (1934-2019) created abstract, three-dimensional, painted constructions. He explains that "it is a painting because colors, shapes and drawing with the brush are of greater importance than is the three-dimensional component."
Born and raised in Ohio, Hinson graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He worked in advertising in New York City before moving to the Pacific Northwest. He taught at South Puget Sound Community College and The Evergreen State College, both in Olympia, Western Washington.
Source: https://www.arts.wa.gov/artist-collection/?request=record;id=2006;type=701
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Abstract
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Hinson builds complicated abstract or non-objective structures that hang on the wall. They are painted constructions made mostly of Masonite with densely encrusted textures built up with plaster. Although they are three-dimensional he thinks of them as paintings and not as sculpture.
He first began working on the oddly shaped constructions in about 1984 or ’85 and started consistently working on them in ’86 when he did an artist-in-residency program for the Bemis Foundation in Omaha. His proposal for the residency program was to work on paintings broken out of the traditional rectangular format, influenced by cut and shaped paintings by Frank Stella and by the writings of the critic Clement Greenberg, who claimed that all painting should be true to the flat, rectangular surface of the canvas, meaning no illusory space. Hinson said he wanted to make paintings that could not be seen as a window on the world.
Source: https://www.thurstontalk.com/2012/01/25/ron-hinson-painting-outside-the-box/
