6 Crucial Considerations for buying Art
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1.Condition
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2. Provenance- Short North - Columbus, Ohio is in the top 10 art districts in the USA.
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3.Authenticity
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4. Quality
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5. Rarity
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6. Value
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•Documentation improves a works value: a painting that is published is worth more
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•Signed Statements
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•Comparable works prices- consistent pricing
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•Art Auctions carry prestige in the art community Ryan has donated to “Art for Life”, CAPA, Southeast mental Illness, and numerous other business and organizations.
Orewiler is a MEMBER of the following:
OPA- Oil Painters of America
Roy.G.Biv Gallery
Wexner Center for the Arts
Columbus Museum of Art
Ohio Art League
Short North Business
Studios on High Gallery
Published Articles about Orewiler and his work:
2008- Short North Gazette- An exciting art blend stirs the imagination and senses" by Elizabeth Ann James
2007- High Street Neighborhoods magazine- Featured artist for the Brewery District
2007- German Village Gazette- German Village Artist puts new abstract work on display
2007- Columbus Alive- Drawing a skyline
2006- German Village Gazette- Beauty in the eye of the beholder
2003- C Magazine” North and south” An Artful view: Ryan Orewiler” April Issue: Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland Publication
2002- New York, New York,” August, The Columbus Dispatch, critic Bill Mayer
2002- “Two Strong Artist’s at Roy.G.Biv August, The Short North Gazette, critic Elizabeth Ann James
2002- The Columbus Dispatch, Sunday Arts Section
1999- The Columbus Dispatch, Sunday Arts Section
1998- Catalog, “14th Street Artist’s” The Shot Tower Gallery
1998- The Columbus Dispatch, Sunday Arts Section
SHORT NORTH GAZETTE MAY 2008’
“Ryan Orewiler is a Columbus College of Art and Design graduate who lives in German Village and has work in numerous public and private collections, including the Leigh Gallery in Chicago. Orewiler’s paintings stem from his own photos, ambitious and fresh. The artist is not afraid to use bright industrial colors. His large city scenes, often complex, form a panoramic whole while the eye travels from section to section.
One of his best known series- Times Square in New York- includes over 40 paintings, all of which have sold except for one, Times Square #4, which is displayed at Studios on High Gallery. This work is one of Orewiler’s major efforts. A long painting, oil on canvas 31”x 44” inches, it depicts the famous square in broad daylight, with passerby in a variety of attire, rushing and pausing while the light changes. They’re on the go in the hub of America. One woman, who resembles a mid evil nun is standing in Times Square. “And she was really there,” explained Orewiler. “I try to capture a split second in time, an interesting figure or subtle interaction.”
Glass doors and windows blink, as do a multitude of actual signs. Yellow and red cars and trucks- there are a million vehicles in the naked city - and they were “really there”. Here are walls once transversed by Superman at a single bound. Above our heads? - the TV news and of course, the space where the ball descends on New Years Eve.
By tilting a light pole “just a tad,” Orewiler has manipulated perspective, allowing the viewer to sense the rush of wind among high buildings. This artist has “covered” cities, their rivers and lakes, in Europe, Hong Kong, and Indonesia. He is good at including people in urban scapes, and he understands shadows and light. Here in Columbus, he painted great scenes with the Smith Brothers Hardware Building and the Wonder Bread sign in Italian Village. His American Gothic and Mona Lisa, are sites familiar to Short North habitues. In Broad Street News, a bright painting, a fire hydrant and the newspaper becomes almost march off the canvas.
Orewiler is quite a strong painter, adept at panoramic and colorful. His scenes in german Village, and , yes, Indonesia and other exotic sites, often reveal his gift for simplicity, and for the play of light on warm, soft, colors.
by Elizabeth Ann James
SHORT NORTH GAZETTE AUGUST 2002’
Ryan Orewiler’s postcard invitation and his Times Square #2 painting is what attracted me to ROYGBIV show. Orewiler is up for a CCAD graduation in August. He decided to call hi Big Apple- inspired show, “New York”.” That’s where he visited with friends and has a great time painting last year(before September 11th).
Time Sqaure #2 is a large oil on canvas (20” x 30”) and Orewiler has brilliantly depicted an actual now: the tall buildings, pressed against each other, have been rendered with precision and grace. A panoply advertising signs, you can read them- a rush on oncoming traffic, striding citizens, street lights and video cameras- all have been presented in detail yet without rigidity. The bright red Coke sign fixes the scene. When I referred to Orewiler as a realist, he was quick to respond: “Well I’m not actually a realist, I’m kind of a mix of realism and Impressionism.”
by Elizabeth Ann James
