Rondle West

Cincinnati, OH

boyrondle@gmail.com
www.studiorondle.com
www.melissamorganfineart.com

Education

1986    AA  School of Hair Design, Louisville, KY
DATE  Morehead State University

Solo Exhibitions

2013  Brazee Studios, Gallery 11
2013  The Constella Festival
2013  Sculpture Center of Cleveland
2011  Carnegie Arts Center (Main Gallery)
2010  Northern Kentucky Univ. Art Galleries

Group Exhibitions

2015  Archangel Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
2015  Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
2014  Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for
             Contemporary Art
2014  Miller Gallery
2013  Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
2011  Thundersky Gallery

Selected Collections

2014  Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for
             Contemporary Art
          Miami University Art Museum
          Ronald McDonald House

Artist Statement

My work represents oddities of my subconscious, touching on universal icons that find their way to the spotlight into one of the many set designs that comprise that work. My hope is that the viewer will be disturbed, amused, challenged, or at least curious about what I have created.

 I was intrigued when asked to create a piece using an ostrich egg for four reasons. One: I typically work in large scale and ostrich eggs are only six inches, instead of six feet. The second; human life starts from a fertilized egg and this provided an idea I had not yet explored in my work. The third reason is we humans can be a lot like ostriches when confronted with frightening challenges. The fourth reason, I see the planet as being a lot like an egg – life giving and nurturing, but very fragile. When God created Adam and Eve, he commanded them to “be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it.” He did not say: “pillage, plunder, and squander the earth and destroy it.” So like an ostrich, we too often bury our heads in the sand, avoiding the difficult issues of preserving and protecting Earth and its resources for ourselves and mankind’s future. 

 It took 250,000 years for civilization to reach a population of 1 billion. Today, we add 250,000 people to the planet each day. It took a century to add the second billion of us. Today, we add 1 billion more people approximately every 12 years. So as I created this piece, millions of new people were added to the world’s population. And as I finished this sculpture, there were over seven billion people inhabiting the planet. Like an egg that creates and nourishes and is easily broken, so is Earth.