Ron Weil

I grew up in Detroit and now live in Albany, CA. I love to play and improvise and it is in the artistic realm that permission to do so is most freely granted.

All of my work is done with soft pastel. While the bulk of my work is abstract, usually focusing on creating organic shapes in an imaginary universe, I also do portraits, usually to help me get unstuck. I am currently working on a series that uses walls as a motif and which depicts somewhat realistic images in the service of expressing some of my thoughts about life.

I am self taught and have just returned to making art in the last couple of years. I currently have some pieces in a group show in a gallery in Berkeley, CA. I last drew in the early 1970s when I made political posters, one of which was selected by Mother Jones magazine as one of the best of the era.,