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Vincent Hron exhibits ‘Recent Work’ at Gallery425

By ISAIAH BRITTON

Sun-Gazette Correspondent

For its April exhibition, Gallery 425 will be hosting award winning artist and professor of painting at Bloomsburg University, Vincent Hron. Featured will be Hron’s exhibit entitled “Recent Work.” The show’s opening will be 6-9 p.m. Friday.

Originally hailing from Nebraska, Hron’s talent for, and dedication to, art — painting in particular — has taken him all over the world to learn and teach his passion.

A multiple degree holder, Hron received a bachelor of fine arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, in addition to a master of fine arts from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Throughout his undergraduate and graduate studies, Hron was able to establish himself as an especially gifted artist, and upon completion of his master of fine arts, he was offered a Graduate Scholarship to study at Statliche Akademi der Bilden den Kunst in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Following a year studying in Germany, Hron returned home to Nebraska, where he opened a studio. During this period he further established his painting prowess, winning multiple awards and earning accolades, including multiple Individual Merit Fellowships from Nebraska Arts Council of Omaha, Nebraska, and Best of Show for his painting “Prairie Light Showcase 92,” which was purchased for permanent collection by the Museum of Nebraska Art, in Kearney, Nebraska. Hron was to eventually bring his talents and expertise to the Northeast, but before his life trajectory would intersect with Central Pennsylvania, he would go on to win a half-dozen more awards in the Midwest.

After holding posts as an adjunct faculty member in the Mid-Atlantic region, Hron landed a full professorship at Bloomsburg University in 1996. In the ensuing 20 years, his award winning pieces and regarded works continued to grow at a steady pace, earning him over a dozen individual awards. Just as notable are his several dozen pieces that have been chosen to be part of permanent collections by notable institutions including museums, universities and hospitals, to remain on display in perpetuity. Hron’s passion for painting has remained alight, and since 1996 he has shown over 50 solo exhibitions, reaching every region of the United States.

As a painter, Hron’s work encompasses many ideas and perspectives, both abstract and concrete. A central tenet to these ideas in the full body of his work is the concept of spirituality. He has shown to be particularly fond of rendering remarkable, brilliant skyscapes, as there is little in nature or civilization that invokes such visceral, spiritual reactions as a dramatic cloud formation reaching to the heavens. According to Hron’s artist statement, “Clouds are amazingly complex subjects to try to draw because of their fractal nature, and because they are molded by the currents of air in and around them. They are ephemeral.”

Clouds have both phenomenological and philosophical qualities according to Hron, and we might learn something about ourselves from them. According to him, clouds are “a metaphor of the self, shaped through the dynamic interaction of internal and external forces.”

In conceptualizing potential future works, Hron prefers to reverse engineer in a sense, beginning with a sketch and drawing inspiration from the patterns within. He says this is part of the beauty of clouds, that they can inspire such manners of thought and recognition.

“Drawing clouds becomes a formal challenge of finding the pattern in the turbulence.”06Hron

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