Artist Biography

Ron Gerton is a retired mechanical engineer with 31 years experience in the nuclear field. He teaches jewelry casting at the local college. He is self taught and has made most of his equipment, including a bronze casting foundry He combines bronze castings of distorted sagebrush plants with his beautiful wood turnings to create fantastic sculptures. The Bonsai plant, skillfully trained to defy nature and gravity heavily influences his work.

He has had pieces accepted into numerous juried art shows and has won numerous Best of Show, Best Three Dimensional and Award of Merit honors. He has been the featured artist for a month long shows at several galleries in the Pacific Northwest. He has pieces in the permanent collection of the Detroit Institute of Art Museum, the New York Museum of Art and Design, the Boston Museum of Fine Art, The Addison museum of Art in Boston, The Minneapolis Museum of Fine Art, The Mobile Museum of Fine Art, and the University of Michigan Art Museum. His work can also be found in many fine private collections.