Glen Etzkorn

1949 Tiffin, Ohio

Apprentice to the father of colored Op Art - S.H.Rogoff who presented the double or reverse after-image in 1952 and corrected the errors associated to Simultaneous Contrast touted by Albers to redefine the issue with Simultaneous Presence.

One of the nicer honors given by his congressional representive was the comment that when they reorganized the color ordering of the Street and highway signs back in the early fifties was 'We will have saved a lot a lives'. I like reminding Hal by now the 'Lot of Lives' is much more like sn 'Enormous amount of Lives'.


Being trained under the artist who wrote the governing rules of the new american (Mid West) art form to be - op art - with his thesis 'Optical Illusion and Vibrational theory" Yale 1952, I was fully aware of the total failure to get a grip on the oddest of all colors Brown. I was also tasked to find a way to place in some proportional fashion more than two of the vibrational and illusional colors at a time. Knowing full well that the advance in color knowledge was a looking upon Native American color usage I chose to explore while at my task a recent archeological design dug up in the South American region. Hilariously the Archeologists to ...

Forever College senior never wanting to graduate to avoid paying double for graduate classes. Besides my favorite class is titled Advanced Painting and endlessly repeating such a class is highly advisable. I have had art shows in universities and often hear repeatedly illegal comments of you can't do this because this is a lutheran or baptist state university community. Threats of Natioal lawyers offering settlements of million or hundred millions normally allows my proceeding with the shows.,