New Year, New Show in the Oswego Public Library Art Gallery

by Contributor | January 5, 2018 8:18 am

OSWEGO – Ron Throop joins the list of wonderful artists we have enjoyed sharing with the community.

The Painter Runs For Congress—Recent Work by Ron Throop arrives today (January 5) and will be with us until the start of March.

There will be an artist’s reception from 5-7 p.m. January 11.

Throop is a professional painter and writer living in the city of Oswego.

He graduated from SUNY Oswego in 1990.

Throop shows locally, statewide, nationwide and internationally including Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia, and Liverpool and London, England.

He paints every day and subscribes to the Stuckism philosophy of art.

His paintings are colorful, lively, and of the moment.

Ron Throop Biography

I am a relatively useful father and husband who relies on connections with others to make my living. This has been my main vocation for 25 years, although I made ends meet at an earlier time employed as a line cook in several restaurants in the 24th Congressional District of New York State. I believe the demands of the professional kitchen trained me to become the successful homemaker I am today.
As a young father recently graduated from college I read to my daughter the The Bunny Book by Patsy and Richard Scarry, and I believe, subconsciously, acquired a philosophy for living the good life.
In it the authors espouse, probably for the first time ever in written history, the virtue of fatherhood as a vocation.
As stay at home dad, I nurtured hobbies such as painting and self-liberation writing, with hopes that either would stimulate an income at a future point, in order to free my wife from the repetitive grind of nine to five.
They have not.
And my oldest daughter is a junior in high school and ready to establish her own life philosophy. So I’ll need something to do.
Why not run for Congress?
Recently I have become an internationally known painter, showing work in Moscow and St. Petersburg Russia, and Liverpool and London England. I am a practitioner of the modern art movement called Stuckism. My paintings are colorful, lively, of the moment, and affordable. I could even make them more affordable if you like me.
I cannot get enough of paint. I am the art crazy old man at late mid-life.

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