Artwork copyright Ron Hinson. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Untitled, 1997

Ron Hinson
(American, born 1934, died 2019)

Location: Edison Elementary School, Tacoma

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

This piece is an example of the late artist Ron Hinson's three-dimensional paintings. These artworks explore color relationships, texture, surface, and form. He termed this style "nonobjective." The composition highlights a harmony and a sense of movement without depicting specific images. Hinson notes "look for the movement that relates each shape and color to each other in a bouncing sort of pattern... One might respond to it as to music without lyrics, 'listening' with one's eyes."

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Tacoma School District.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

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.