Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood bringing art to Butler

YOUNGSTOWN

An exhibition of art work by Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood will open Sept. 21 at the Butler Institute of American Art and run through Nov. 21. Wood will attend an artist’s reception at the museum on opening day.

Entitled “Ronnie Wood: Paintings, Drawings and Prints,” the exhibition will be the rocker-artist’s first at a major American museum.

Wood, 63, is famed as a musician, but his skill as a visual artist is not as well-known. Nevertheless, his art is lively and appealing, according to Louis Zona, chief curator and director of the Butler. Zona expects the exhibition will attract a lot of people to the museum.

“Ronnie Wood is a most accomplished painter whose work demonstrates a wonderful knowledge of the medium, outstanding technical abilities and an extraordinarily creative mind,” he said.

Included in the Butler exhibition are 30 paintings, 22 pen and pencil drawings and seven mixed-media works.

Read more in Wednesday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com