Ron Mills-Pinyas

USA

“Beauty is to me found when the mind reaches its end point. To engage this aspiration, as a painter, I seek to create images that are not previously known or named, in passages that hint at luminous sources often behind conjecture, unresolved flux and serendipity”

My work has a painter is informed and inspired by patterns observed in the natural world, be they energetic, sub-molecular, biologic or cosmic, even extending to theoretical notions of what we are made of.  My imagination soars in the face of that which remains elusive to consciousness and our sense of scale and time, about what composes us and all that we think we know. I find humanity is in a fascinating and challenging position, working in the arts and sciences toward meaning and significance in a field that constantly eludes our deepest desire for certainty.  Painting is for me, in this sense, active meditation.

Physically, my work as a painter involves in a process that combines mineral and metallic pigments, including brass, copper, mica and iron, often as tarnished surfaces.   Branches of various kinds—ones that carry literary or colloquial connotations—including olive, yew, laurel, and other branches are used as essentially large brushes that register prints I the textures that I later articulate in paint with conventional brushes.  The textured metallic pigments and painted surfaces shimmer as we move around them, creating multi-layered veils that remind of our deepest desires to explore without naming, to become poets of meaning, seers without reference to the already known. The eye is compelled to scan, to dwell in fascination, to embrace that which is greater than a single narrative or illusory image.  What does it mean that the work was spanked or caressed with olive branches? With Laurel, with Yew?

Mills-Pinyas is a muralist, a painter and a printmaker living in Spain and the United States.

“Para mí, la belleza se encuentra cuando la mente llega a su punto final. Para implicarme con esta aspiración, como pintor, busco crear imágenes que no sean previamente conocidas ni nombradas, en pasajes que insinúan fuentes luminosas situadas a menudo tras la conjetura, el flujo no resuelto y la serendipia.”

Mi trabajo como pintor está informado e inspirado por los patrones observados en el mundo natural, ya sean energéticos, sub-moleculares, biológicos o cósmicos, e incluso se extiende a nociones teóricas sobre de qué estamos hechos. Mi imaginación se eleva ante aquello que permanece esquivo a la conciencia y a nuestra percepción de la escala y del tiempo, sobre lo que nos compone y todo lo que creemos conocer. Encuentro que la humanidad ocupa una posición fascinante y desafiante, trabajando en las artes y las ciencias en busca de significado y trascendencia dentro de un campo que constantemente elude nuestro deseo más profundo de certeza. La pintura es, en este sentido, una meditación activa para mí.

Físicamente, mi trabajo como pintor implica un proceso que combina pigmentos minerales y metálicos —incluidos latón, cobre, mica y hierro—, a menudo en superficies oxidadas. Utilizo ramas de diversos tipos —cargadas de connotaciones literarias o coloquiales—, como olivo, tejo, laurel y otras, empleándolas como grandes pinceles que imprimen huellas en texturas que luego articulo con pinceles convencionales. Los pigmentos metálicos texturizados y las superficies pintadas brillan al movernos frente a ellas, creando velos de múltiples capas que remiten a nuestro deseo más profundo de explorar sin nombrar, de convertirnos en poetas del significado, videntes sin referencia a lo ya conocido. El ojo se ve impulsado a escanear, a permanecer fascinado, a abrazar aquello que es más grande que una narrativa única o una imagen ilusoria. ¿Qué significa que la obra haya sido golpeada o acariciada con ramas de olivo? ¿Con laurel, con tejo?

Mills-Pinyas es muralista, pintor y grabador, y reside entre España y Estados Unidos.

Selected Artworks

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Ron Mills-Pinyas

Stasis

2024
92.5 x 152 x 3.5 cm

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Ron Mills-Pinyas

Vigilancia

2024
92.5 x 152 x 3.5 cm

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Ron Mills-Pinyas

Plenty

2024
98 x 205.5 x 3.5 cm

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Figment

2024
170 x 170 cm

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Ron Mills-Pinyas

Time Out of Mind

2024
170 x 250 cm

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Ron Mills-Pinyas

Conjuring Wind and Water

2024
170 x 170 cm

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A Question of Proximity

2024
170 x 170 cm

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Ron Mills-Pinyas

Shelter I & II

2024
200 x 130 cm (each panel)

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Shine I & II

2024
200 x 120 cm (each panel)

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Ron Mills-Pinyas

Jacaranda I & II

2024
200 x 120 cm (each panel)

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Ron Mills-Pinyas

Vigil

2024
200 x 120 x 4 cm

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Exuberance

2024
126 x 122 x 4 cm

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Looming

2024
90 x 110 x 4 cm

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Ron Mills-Pinyas

The Near and the Far

2024
90 x 200 x 4 cm

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Instance – Instancia

2024
235 x 125 x 4 cm

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Compostela II (Field of Stars)

2024
110 x 200 cm

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Once Known

2024
195 x 195 cm

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Eclipse

2024
195 x 195 cm

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Threshold

2024
190 x 330 cm