Ron Ollie

Ron Ollie is an art collector living and collecting in New Jersey. He has been collecting for several years and cites the abstract painter Ed Clark as one of his mentors, giving him direction and a sense of appreciation for the work being collected.

Ollie speaks about the dearth of scholarship for the collector looking to build his collection of Black art, which has the paradoxical effect of creating an interesting, definitely more intimate, collector/artist relationship. This atmosphere he hopes will foster a future of Black art collecting that is more widespread, and helps bring more stylistically varied artists to the fore.