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Artistic Practice
Ronald Mills-Pinyas
Paintings | Murals | Watercolors | Printmaking | Drawings | Performances & Installations
2025 YouTube video of Ron working in the Studio
Mills-Pinyas' artistic practice is divided between Oregon and Spain, with work currently being shown in Barcelona, Amsterdam, Mallorca and Bodrum, Türkiye by Villa del Arte galleries. He also exhibits his work in Oregon in various venues. He has painted numerous permanent murals in Costa Rica, Mexico, Spain and Oregon.
The best of what I do is to notice, to preserve and amplify...approaching, but seemingly never arriving at the beginning...or the end...entering into the fray, destination unknown.
From the gallery website: The textured metallic pigments in his current abstract studio paintings feature surfaces that shimmer as we move around them, creating inviting multi-layered veils that remind us of our deepest desires to explore without naming, to become poets of meaning, seers without reference to the already known.
News and Events | Galleries of VILLA DEL ARTE |. Video: 2024 Interview
Recent Practice:
Collaborating with OEOE Handbags as "#OEOECreator", with Spanish national award winning designer Anna Busquets, a Catalan-Spanish luxury designer of handbags.
Farsighted and Correfoc series 2024-25
Threshold Series (Villa del Arte in Barcelona, Amsterdam and Bodrum, Türkiye) 2023-24
Sala Oniírica (mural in Spain): murals in Casa Isabel, Arenys de Mar, Barcelona, Spain. (2023-24 Under construction)
Travel watercolors from the trails of the Camino de Santiago and Via Francigena, 2023-24
Tesserae Project, 2021
Watercolor: Quarantine Series, for Joel, 2020
Watercolor: Learning to count to one (again), 2020
Gauguin's Doubts, 2020,
Compostela series, Arenys de Mar, Barcelona, Spain,
2017-18 large-scale works.
Arenys de Mar, Spain 2017-18 Watercolors
Camino de Santiago de Compostela 2018 Watercolors
Crow's Shadow monotypes 2017
Qualia painting portfolio 2017
Proximity painting portfolio 2017
El Maresme paintings 2016-17
Along the Bracken Line series, 2016
Watercolors 2016-17
From the Road, travel watercolors
Crow's Shadow monotypes 2015-16
Costa Rican Exhibition
D i s s e m I n a t I o n:
CURRENT: ATTRAVERSIAMO, FARSIGHTED;Mills-Pinyas at Villa del Arte, June 12-July 14, Mandarin Oriental, Barcelona. Opening night will feature eight unique pieces created in collaboration with Anna Busquets of OEOE handbags in which I painted leather surfaces.
ALSO: Barcelona-Bodrum-Amsterdam-Mallorca: Multiple works from the series exhibited at Villa del Arte, Barcelona Mandarin Oriental and at Villa del Arte, Barcelona, as well as In Villa del Arte Amsterdam, Bodrum and Mallorca.
Portland, Oregon: Abstract Catalyst #9 exhibition at Gillia Gallery, Verum Ultimum, Portland, Oregon. Sept, 2024
Costa Rica: PUBLICATION of a major compendium of ethnographic research: Cosmovisión y Expresiones Estéticas de los Pueblos Originarios en la Actualidad Costarricense by the Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica. Fall 2024, co-authored with Jorge Luis Acevedo Vargas.
Türkiye: 19th CONTEMPORARY ISTANBUL international art fair. October 23-27th, 2024.
Barcelona: VILLA DEL ARTE GALLERIES & HOTEL MANDARIN ORIENTAL, 2024, in Barcelona, Spain and Bodrum, Turkey. Threshold Series, large scale canvases. Work installed in Grand Hotel Central, Barcelona and the restaurant at the five-star Hotel Mandarin Oriental. Interview
VILLA DEL ARTE & HOTEL MANDARIN ORIENTAL, 2025. Carrier de la Tapineria gallery at the municipal Cathedral and THE GRAND HOTEL CENTRAL, Barcelona scheduled May-June.
VILLA DEL ARTE AMSTERDAM, Netherlands. Summer 2024
VERUM ULTIMUM GALLERY, Portland, Oregon. "The Living Mark" exhibit. Summer 2024
GILLIA GALLERY, VERUM ULTIMUM Portland, Oregon. Featured artist, Abstract Sanctuary, 2024.
THE GEEZER GALLERY, Portland, Oregon, Oct. 2022
"Learning to Count to One" Opening Oct 1, 4-8 pm
TEN OAKS GALLERY, McMinnville, Oregon. Ongoing displays in various Willamette Valley wineries. Bjornson Vinyards, Patton Valley Wines, Ocelli Cellars, Durant Vineyards.
GILLIA GALLERY, VERUM ULTIMUM Portland, Oregon, 3014 NE Ainsworth, 8th Annual Abstract Sanctuary. Feb, 2021
LAURA VINCENT DESIGN & GALLERY, Portland, Oregon. TBA 2021.
LINFIELD UNIVERSITY GALLERY, Learning to Count to One,, Feb. 6-March 16th 2019. Tesserae | Dyads | (article)
LAURA VINCENT DESIGN & GALLERY, Plexus, Portland, Oregon. April, 2019, paintings and monotypes Sculpture by Scott Ross.
VILLA DE ARTES GALLERIES, Barcelona, Spain
Compostela series, Arenys de Mar, 2017-18 large-scale works.
VILLA DE ARTES GALLERIES, Barcelona-Amsterdam
MINTHORNE GALLERY, About Beauty, George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon. Nov. 6 — Dec. 5
GILLIA GALLERY, VERUM ULTIMUM, Portland, Oregon, 3014 NE Ainsworth, 97206 Interview with Jennifer Cutshalll. 4th Annual Living Mark exhibit (May 20th-June 2017
MURALS: Origins, School of the Integrated Arts, Costa Rica (2016)
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