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Bio of Ron Kent

Ron Kent is an artist who is constantly challenging preconceptions by exploring new mediums and approaches. While he is known to many as a master craftsman in the realm of wood art, with work in leading museums from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to The Louvre, he has never accepted that he should be limited to any particular medium, process or form.

For those who are only familiar with Ron Kent’s translucent wood bowls, the work that he has been quietly creating for the last two decades presents quite a revelation. More than anything, it provides a larger context for considering his bowl forms. Although celebrated as a “woodturner”, the artist was never as interested in the craft and material as he was in the potential for expression it provided. Of course, it’s not that Ron Kent hasn’t enjoyed the experience. He loves working with wood and the process involved in creating his trademark bowls. His work sells for high prices at the finest art galleries, although he has often admitted that he would gladly do the work without monetary reward.

The artist’s love of simplicity is equaled by his respect for complexity. This has led to his many variations on the concave/convex saddle-shaped Wave sculptures, the organic Seaweed forms in laminated wood and patinated brass, the interwoven randomness of his capillary-tube sculptures and the open-sided inner-mirrored pyramids.