{{short description|Canadian artist (1933-2001)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2021}} {{Infobox artist | name = Ron Stonier | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Ronald Milton Stonier | birth_date = 1933 | birth_place = Victoria, British Columbia | death_date = 2001 | death_place = North Vancouver, British Columbia | nationality = | partner = Suzanne Cole (née Hamel) (1968–1987); Sheila Cano (1989–2001) | field = | training = Vancouver School of Art with Jack Shadbolt and Gordon A. Smith (graduated 1957) | movement = | works = | patrons = | awards = Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation scholarship (1958) | elected = | known_for = Painter, teacher }} '''Ron Stonier''' (1933–2001) was an abstract painter in Vancouver.<ref name="artswest " >{{cite web |last1=Sawyer |first1=Jill |title=Ron Stonier (1933 - 2001) |url=https://e1.envoke.com/m/d88bf444b851930f78a5812b1e77d9a8/m/3f82bacb6ba4eae458c5c6c4466d3a2d/177c197ef55f3bbae0caf3adbff7aaec?mode=3&rev=1551721350210 |website=e1.envoke.com |publisher=artswest |access-date=2021-02-19}}</ref>
==Career== Ron Stonier was born in Victoria, British Columbia.<ref name="Morrison " >{{cite book |last1=Morrison |first1=Darrin |title="Foreword". Ron Stonier: A Concept of Time |date=2019 |publisher=West Vancouver Art Museum |pages=2–7|location=Vancouver|url=https://westvancouverartmuseum.ca/exhibitions/ron-stonier-concept-time|access-date=2021-02-26}}</ref> He studied at the Provincial Normal School in Victoria, the University of British Columbia and the University of Washington, Seattle, then attended the Vancouver School of Art (VSA), graduating in 1957.<ref name="Morrison " /><ref name="artswest " /> Before graduation, he already had a job teaching at the West Vancouver Sketch Club (now the North Shore Artists Guild) and night classes at VSA.<ref name="Morrison " /> After graduation, he spent a year travelling on a Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation scholarship, then worked in the design department of the Canadian Broadcasting Company in Vancouver.<ref name="Cano " >{{cite book |last1=Cano |first1=Sheila |title="Ronald Milton Stonier: A Life". Ron Stonier: A Concept of Time |date=2019 |publisher=West Vancouver Art Museum |pages=8–10|location=Vancouver|url=https://westvancouverartmuseum.ca/exhibitions/ron-stonier-concept-time |access-date=2021-02-27}}</ref> From 1962 till 1978, he taught at the VSA full time.<ref name="artswest " /> During these years, he helped found the Tempus Gallery in Vancouver to show work by faculty and students. He was part of Intermedia as well as helping to found Bau-Xi Gallery in 1965 in Vancouver.<ref name="artswest " /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Griffin |first1=Kevin |title=Big gamble pays off as Bau-Xi Gallery celebrates 50 years |url=https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/big-gamble-pays-off-as-bau-xi-gallery-celebrates-50-years |access-date=2021-02-20|agency=vancouversun.com |publisher=Vancouver Sun, May 06, 2015 |date=2015}}</ref> From 1978, he concentrated on his painting.<ref name="Morrison " />
He painted abstractly, creating visceral Tachist works, and, in the 1960s, works that pointed towards post-painterly abstraction.<ref name="artswest " /> That led to paintings, through the 1970s, with harder edges and a series of colour bands and targets, works that make the most sense when considered in a larger, national context.<ref name="baker " >{{cite book |last1=Baker |first1=Russell |title="On Ron Stonier". Ron Stonier: A Concept of Time |date=2019 |publisher=West Vancouver Art Museum|pages=16–20 |location=Vancouver|url=https://westvancouverartmuseum.ca/exhibitions/ron-stonier-concept-time|access-date=2021-02-27}}</ref> His oeuvre, which only came to light in 2010, is considered "monumental".<ref name="van sun " >{{cite web |last1=Monk |first1=Katherine |title=Monumental oeuvre unveiled|url=https://www.pressreader.com/canada/vancouver-sun/20101108/282870842200115 |via=PressReader |publisher=Vancouver Sun, 8 Nov 2010 |access-date=2021-02-19}}</ref>
==Exhibitions== In the 1960s and 1970s, he often showed his work in group shows in the Vancouver Art Gallery. His last show there in the seventies was titled ''Current Pursuits, explorations and expressions by nine contemporary B.C. Artists'' in 1976.<ref>{{cite web |title=exhibition event |url=http://ccca.concordia.ca/resources/searches/event_detail.html?languagePref=en&vk=5805 |website=ccca.concordia.ca |publisher=Concordia |access-date=2021-02-27}}</ref> In 1995, he was in a show at the Burnaby Art Gallery about the community of artists in British Columbia.<ref name="Cano " /> In 2010, his posthumous show ''Ouroborus: A Survey of Paintings by Ron Stonier 1963-1989'', a 25-year retrospective, was held at the newly opened Trench Gallery, Vancouver to critical acclaim.<ref name="van sun " /><ref name="artswest " /> In 2012, the Vancouver Art Gallery held a show titled ''Lights Out! Canadian Painting from the 1960s'' and included his ''Holy Man'' painting. In 2019, ''Ron Stonier: A Concept of Time'' was exhibited at the West Vancouver Art Museum.<ref name="baker " />
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