March 1-31 in the House of Happy Walls Museum.
10am-5pn Daily
Rick Oginz (born 1944, Philadelphia) creates sculpture, paintings, drawings, ceramics, furniture, and site-specific commissions from his studio in Sonoma. He has produced and exhibited his art far and wide in every city in which he has lived and taught— in London and Leeds, UK; Los Angeles, CA, Toronto, Ontario Canada, and Oakland, CA, the city of Jack London’s childhood, where Oginz had his studio from 2013-2020. Landmarks are a recurring subject— from the Watts Towers of Simon Rodia, to the curious architecture of Topanga Canyon, to the iconic CN Tower, Toronto, and quintessential images of Oakland— the Tribune Building, the Bay Bridge, the massive container ships at sea, and the Port of Oakland itself.

Oginz embarked upon a visual study of the Wolf House Ruins upon his arrival in Sonoma in 2020 after decades of reading and reflecting upon Jack London’s literary works.
Made over a five-year period, each painting exudes its own mood and point of view, embracing Jack London’s themes of the struggle between the wild and the civilized.
The paintings can be understood as a meditation upon and celebration of Jack and Charmian London’s vision for what was to be their forever home, and an “excavation” of the way in which nature finds a way to reclaim over time all that humans endeavor to create.

To learn more about the artist, visit www.rickoginzart.com

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