Curriculum
Solo Exhibition, Serendipity Labs Presents RON MCILVAIN
Clayton, Missouri. April – June.
Abstracted Abstractions
St. Louis Artists' Guild, St. Louis, Missouri
Juried by Ken Wood, International Exhibiting Printmaker, Teacher, St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis Artists' Guild Members' Exhibition
St. Louis, Missouri
Juried by Jim Phillips, Museum Manager, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Rosemary Berkel & Harry L. Crisp Museum at Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Biennial Quad-State Exhibit
Quincy Art Center, Quincy, Illinois
Juried by John Schuerman, Artist and Independent Curator, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Members Juried Exhibition
St. Louis Artists' Guild, St. Louis, Missouri
Juried by Robert A. Powell, Founder and Executive Director of Portfolio Gallery and Education Center, St. Louis, Missouri
Ann Metzger Memorial National All Media Exhibition
St. Louis Artists' Guild, St. Louis, Missouri
Juried by Hannah Klemm, Assistant Curator Modern and Contemporary Art, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
★ Edgar L. Metzger Memorial Award
The Essence of Form
St. Louis Artists' Guild, St. Louis, Missouri
Juried by Fran Skiles, International Exhibiting Artist, Teacher, Lecturer with Studios in Florida and West Virginia
Macro Micro
Foundry Art Center, St. Charles, Missouri
Juried by Peg Fetter, Nationally Recognized Metalsmith, Teaching at Craft Alliance, Washington University and Fontbonne University in St. Louis, Missouri
Ann Metzger Memorial National All Media Exhibition
St. Louis Artists' Guild, St. Louis, Missouri
Juried by Emily Eddins, Art Dealer for 30 Years, Currently with Haw Contemporary Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
★ Conducted painting workshops in conjunction with the exhibition at the request of the Artists' Guild.
130 Exhibition
St. Louis Artists' Guild, St. Louis, Missouri
Juried by Hanna R. Reeves, Gallery Director, Sager Baudis Gallery, Columbia, Missouri
ViewPoint 48
The Cincinnati Art Club, Cincinnati, Ohio
Juried by Sonia Hidalgo, Full-time Artist in Northeast Los Angelos, and Tamera Lenz Muente, Assistant Curator, Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio; Final Judge — Cesar Santos, Globally Recognized Painter by Annigoni Museum, Italy; Beijing Museum, China; National Gallery, Costa Rica
★ Jack Richeson Award of Distinction
Maturity and Its Muse: Celebrating Artistic Experience
Art Saint Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
Juried by Lynn Friedman Hamilton, Executive Director Maturity and Its Muse and Meredith Malone, Associate Curator, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Noticing Nature
Foundry Art Center, St. Charles, Missouri
Juried by Wayne Trinklein, Sculptor, St. Peters, Missouri
Clearly Human II
St. Louis Artists' Guild, St. Louis, Missouri
Juried by Victor Wang, Professor in Painting and Drawing Department of Fine Arts, Fontbonne University, St. Louis, Missouri
The Twenty-Sixth Cedarhurst Biennial
Mitchell Museum, Cedarhurst Center For The Arts, Mount Vernon, Illinois
Juried by David Brinker, Assisstant Director, Saint Louis University Museum of Contemporary Religous Art and Kathryn Nahorski, Executive Director, St. Louis Artist Guild
Biennial Quad-State Exhibit
Quincy Art Center, Quincy, Illinois
Juried by Miranda Krajniak, Executive Director of the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan
MOVE! The Exhibit
St. Louis Artists' Guild, St. Louis, Missouri
Juried by Bryan Haynes, New Regionalist Painter, St Albans, Missouri
Summer Regional Exhibition
St. Louis Artists' Guild, St. Louis, Missouri
Juried by Najjar Abdul-Musawwir, Assiciate Professor of Studio Arts and Art History, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
Luminous Language
Foundry Art Center, St. Charles, Missouri
Juried by Matthew Cornell, Nationally Recognized Photorealistic Painter, Orlando, Florida
Ann Metzger Memorial National All Media Exhibition
St. Louis Artists' Guild, St. Louis, Missouri
Juried by Marla Prather, Curator, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Artists Under 30
St. Louis Artists' Guild, St. Louis, Missouri
★ Daniel Fitspatrick Award Winner
Oil and Sculpture Exhibition
St. Louis Artists' Guild, St. Louis, Missouri
★ Anonymous Prize Winner
38th Annual Exhibition
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri
Juried by Ernest Smith, Director, Gallery of Loretto-Hilton Center, Webster University, Webster Groves, Missouri
20th Annual Exhibit
Quincy Art Center, Quincy, Illinois
Juried by Edward Betts, Professor of Art, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
Twelth Mid South Exhibiion
Brooks Memorial Art Museum, Memphis, Tennessee
Juried by Sue M. Thurman, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
All Abstracts
Contemporary Art Gallery Online
“Ronald McIlvain won the $100 Daniel Fitzpatrick prize for 'Structural White', a tightly, intelligently organized composition with a viscous but dry surface.”
“One of the most promising artists in the show is Ronald McIlvain whose impressive oil, 'Structure No. 300', is a handsomely composed, heavily structured treatment of reds which recede into blues. Effective variation of texture improves the essential gravity of the work which displays a quality of rich mystery akin to a medieval tapestry.”
Note: Accepted as a candidate for an MFA in painting at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1970. Unable to attend for personal reasons.