Ro Lohin at Wagner College
2/23/2026
Ro Lohin
BLACK and WHITE
the large paintings
March 8 - April 17, 2026
Union Art Gallery
Wagner College
One Campus Road, Staten Island, New York
Reception Sunday, March 8, 3 pm - 6 pm
Gallery Hours - Every Day, 9 am - 8 pm
The Union Art Gallery at Wagner College is proud to present Ro Lohin’s powerful series of works entitled “BLACK and WHITE, the large paintings.”
With this collection of canvases, all executed on the East End of Long Island over a period of several years, Lohin pushes the physical limits of traditional Plein Air Painting. The exhibition consists of large canvases, each painted over multiple sessions directly from the landscape.
The results are both a combat, and a communion with the natural settings that engulf her. The physical challenges of carrying the paintings, some as large as 66” x 58”, into the landscape, along with all the supplies needed for her unique painting method, underscores Lohin’s belief that the strongest work comes from extended time spent in deep observation and perception. A gifted colorist, she is sensitive to the ever shifting play of warm and cool tonalities found in landscape. Using variations of black and white only for this series, Lohin strips the paintings of the emotionality of color, but through a passionate commitment to gestural drawing, infuses the work none the less with a resonance and pathos. Color is replaced, and suggested, by her subtle use of value changes, creating passages of dappled light and deep shadows.
Lohin paints with her canvas flat on the ground. Using large brushes and bowls of fluid oil paint, she works her way around and through the picture with gestural splats (her word) of marks that correspond to observed phenomena. The precision of her marks comes from a decades long, daily practice of drawing. Disparate associations, from Pollock’s freewheeling drip paintings to Seurat’s calculated build up of optical dots, come to mind superficially. But Lohin’s goals seem closer to J.M.W. Turner’s, in that she is not interested in making a landscape into a picture, but rather finding and expressing the forces at work in nature which leave us with a sense of something larger than ourselves. Lohin accomplishes this in a completely contemporary way, her work stating that the materiality of the painting process is inseparable from her subject.
MKW
www.rolohin.com
info@rolohinfinearts.com
2/23/2026
Ro Lohin
BLACK and WHITE
the large paintings
March 8 - April 17, 2026
Union Art Gallery
Wagner College
One Campus Road, Staten Island, New York
Reception Sunday, March 8, 3 pm - 6 pm
Gallery Hours - Every Day, 9 am - 8 pm
The Union Art Gallery at Wagner College is proud to present Ro Lohin’s powerful series of works entitled “BLACK and WHITE, the large paintings.”
With this collection of canvases, all executed on the East End of Long Island over a period of several years, Lohin pushes the physical limits of traditional Plein Air Painting. The exhibition consists of large canvases, each painted over multiple sessions directly from the landscape.
The results are both a combat, and a communion with the natural settings that engulf her. The physical challenges of carrying the paintings, some as large as 66” x 58”, into the landscape, along with all the supplies needed for her unique painting method, underscores Lohin’s belief that the strongest work comes from extended time spent in deep observation and perception. A gifted colorist, she is sensitive to the ever shifting play of warm and cool tonalities found in landscape. Using variations of black and white only for this series, Lohin strips the paintings of the emotionality of color, but through a passionate commitment to gestural drawing, infuses the work none the less with a resonance and pathos. Color is replaced, and suggested, by her subtle use of value changes, creating passages of dappled light and deep shadows.
Lohin paints with her canvas flat on the ground. Using large brushes and bowls of fluid oil paint, she works her way around and through the picture with gestural splats (her word) of marks that correspond to observed phenomena. The precision of her marks comes from a decades long, daily practice of drawing. Disparate associations, from Pollock’s freewheeling drip paintings to Seurat’s calculated build up of optical dots, come to mind superficially. But Lohin’s goals seem closer to J.M.W. Turner’s, in that she is not interested in making a landscape into a picture, but rather finding and expressing the forces at work in nature which leave us with a sense of something larger than ourselves. Lohin accomplishes this in a completely contemporary way, her work stating that the materiality of the painting process is inseparable from her subject.
MKW
www.rolohin.com
info@rolohinfinearts.com
Ro Lohin at Wagner College
2/23/2026
2/23/2026
