I'm an artist from Dayton/Kettering, making gestural abstract paintings that stress color, movement and lively action.
Ron Rollins is a writer, editor, poet and artist who lives in Kettering.
He’s worked at the Dayton Daily News and Cox Media Group Ohio since 1986. He’s served on the boards of several local arts, cultural and social-service organizations, including Dayton History, FilmDayton, House of Bread and the Antioch Writers Workshop.
His artwork is usually acrylic and/or pastel on canvas, influenced by the work of his mother, Barbara, a watercolor artist, and by the Abstract Expressionists of the mid-20th century, such as Hans Hofmann, Jackson Pollack, Franz Kline and Joan Mitchell.
He’s shown his work at the Dayton Circus Sideshow; at the Miamisburg Summer Arts Series Gallery; the Centerville Police Station gallery; Visceral Gallery in Middletown, Ohio; the Firelands Association for the Visual Arts in Oberlin, Ohio; the Kettering Christ Church Little Gallery; at Antioch University Midwest; in members shows of the Dayton Visual Arts Center, the Springfield Museum of Art and the Dayton Society of Artists; and at numerous Dayton-area businesses.
He was one of five featured Dayton-area artists whose work was featured in a traveling exhibition of nature-themed work to mark the 50th anniversary of the Five Rivers MetroParks. His work has been part of ThinkTV’s “The Art Show” and on the cover of Mock Turtle Zine, a Dayton arts journal.
He has a studio in Kettering, where he and his art partner, Terry Welker, also exhibit work by other local artists. Ron and his wife, Amy, have two grown children and two grandchildren.
