Publications
2008- December- Columbus Dispatch
“High Views” The Weekender, Bill Mayr
November- Short North Gazette
“I am Missing you” Arts Guide Section
October- The Weekender: Columbus Dispatch
“I am Missing You: Columbus Urban Scapes”
Selected Group exhibition. by Bill Mayer
September- 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 stands 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
GERMAN VILLAGE GAZETTE October 2006
Art fans are invited to get abstract Friday night at an exhibition for local artist.
Raffensberger Photography and Framing, 900 S.High St., will host German Village artist Ryan Orewiler started out painting landscapes and cityscapes, he has been dabling in abstract work for the last three years. He paints primary with oil.
The paintings Orewiler will display at the exhibition are all abstracts, taken from a group of works he calls the Metro Series, which is inspired by buildings and geometric forms. The concept of the series, Orewiler said, involves transitions of black and white with black lines, and accented blocks of color to show contrast between areas with and without color.
“I want to experiment into a different realm, to kind of...let go of technical aspects said. “(Abstracts) give me a sense of freedom, and they also set a mood.
The son of an art teacher, Orewiler grew up in German Village, attending St.Mary’s, St.Francis DeSales High School and Eventually the Columbus college of Art and Design.
“I studied illustration( at CCAD), where I got the skills to understand ho to paint and the technical aspects of the intricacy of landscapes,”Orewiler said.
Orewiler will display 15 pieces during the exhibition. He has done seven solo exhibitions, he said, with four of them featuring his abstract work.
It’s a combination of everything I’ve taken in from the past artists that have influenced me,” he said. “It’s a pretty energizing atmosphere.”
Orewiler’s work has apeared at Raffensberger before. He worked for the owner Neil Raffensberger at one point in time, said Angie Schweitzberger, photographer’s assistant for the studio.
“This is something that’s new for him,” Schweitzberger said. “Its like a new chapter almost. He hasn’t done anything like it before.”
by Reporter Garth Bishop
COLUMBUS DISPATCH AUGUST 2002’
Art is where you find it, for the artist and the viewer.
Weekender’s visual arts listings include dozens of venues. Some are traditional locations, but others are parks, churches, and similar sites.
New York, New York
The city remains in our thoughts. It also is on the canvases of Ryan Orewiler, who is showing a series of New York scenes. They include six strong colorful images capturing the pulse of the rejuvenated Times Square.
His “New York” series is on display at Roy.G.Biv Gallery.
by critique Bill Mayer
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 Square #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