Ron Silver

Bubby's and Azuca owner, Ron Silver, is a self-taught painter who has spent decades painting undercover as a chef and restaurateur in New York. For Silver, creating art is a way to visually communicate his questions about existence and experience the universality of beauty. 

Silver's attitude towards art is heavily influenced by Japanese culture and its emphasis on serving the community. Inspired by a lifetime of mentors and teachers, from Alfredo Futuro and Egon Schiele to Renaissance painters and Plato; American folk is at the heart of his work.

Ron paints figurative and naïve images depicting the beauty of life and its colors on vibrant canvas; his subjects range from actresses from the golden age of french cinema, with whom he has fallen in love throughout his life, to the ideas of the step movements of different ballroom dances. Simple ideas such as: "Men suffer, women are beautiful" are accentuated through subtle attempts between the beautiful and the imperfect.

There is always in Ron's work the reminder that we are looking at a painting: runoffs, stains, fingerprints and brushstrokes that disappear and emerge in his work.

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