Current, Recent and Upcoming Shows & Events:  Landscape UD @ Crane Gallery Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, PA Sept 13th - Oct 11, 2012 Receptions: Thursday, Sept 13 / Oct 11, 6-9 pm Show extended until Oct 25th! _______________________________________________  Make It, Break It, Rebuild It (group exhibition,site specific installations/performances) Philadelphia Fringe Festival South Kensington, Philadelphia, PA September 7 -15, 2012 Support the exhibition here. _______________________________________________ Creature Comforts (group exhibition) Workhouse Arts Center 9601 Ox Road, Vorton, VA 22079 May 4 - 27, 2012 _______________________________________________ Under Construction (group exhibition) Curated by: J. Susan Isaacs Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts DuPont I & DuPont II Galleries 200 S. Madison Street, Wilmington, DE 19801 February 17, 2012 - June 10, 2012 ________________________________________________ Room to Roam Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Online Exhibition Curated by: John Massier Click here to viewhttp://www.cranearts.com/2012/landscapehttp://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bradcarney/make-it-break-it-rebuild-it?ref=livehttp://www.lortonarts.orghttp://www.thedcca.org/http://www.midatlanticarts.org/maar/details_photo/room_to_roam.htmlshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2shapeimage_1_link_3shapeimage_1_link_4
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Your embrace warms my soul, polystyrene, adhesive, 2012. A collaboration with Emily Bowser.
Recent Articles/Reviews: Lorton Workhouse Art’s ‘Creature Comforts’ emphasizes creation, building. Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post, May 17, 2012 Domestic Spaces Challenge the Concept of “Home” Darren White, Philadelphia Weekly, May 2, 2012 Pacolet River Flood Memorial Unveiled: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 Spartanburg, South Carolina Spartanburg Herald Journal Article Ron Longsdorf participated in the group exhibition, East of Fresno in Badger, CA: Donald Munro, Recapping “East of Fresno. The Fresno Bee, September 28, 2011. Ron Longsdorf collaborates with Ballet Spartanburg: Kim Kimzey, Dance, music, visual arts collide in ballet’s DanSynergy III. Herald Journal, March 17, 2011. REVIEW: Ron Longsdorf, Delaware Division of the Arts by J. Susan Isaacs, Sculpture Magazine, May 2010. Click here to view PDF. As part of his 2009 residency at Elsewhere in Greensboro, Ron Longsdorf is mentioned in this article about the artist community: Elsewhere Collaborative: Community, Dispersal, and Reciprocity by Rebecca Dimling Cochran Art Papers, January/February 2010 Baltimore City Paper Review Seventh Annual Curators’ Incubator: Learning The Trade by Alex Ebstein 2009 Individual Artist Fellowship - Ronald Longsdorf by Christopher Yasiejko The Paper Machine: Artist Highlight: RON LONGSDORF by Wes Doyle Radar Redux Baltimore Arts & Culture Review: Gallery Four: RECTIFIED by Gretchen Warner RECTIFIED, Baltimore City Paper Review: Playtime: A surface sense of fun turns into something less playful in this group show by Bret McCabehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/lorton-workhouse-arts-creature-comforts-emphasizes-creation-building/2012/05/17/gIQAOX0zWU_story.html#http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/arts-and-culture/149705155.htmlhttp://www.goupstate.com/article/20111115/ARTICLES/111119781/1112?Title=Statue-unveiled-to-mark-flood-along-Pacolet-Riverhttp://fresnobeehive.com/2011/09/recapping_east.htmlhttp://www.goupstate.com/article/20110317/ARTICLES/103171007/1099/entertainment01?p=1&tc=pgHome_files/Sculpture_Longsdorf.pdfhttp://www.artpapers.org/feature_articles/article2.htmhttp://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=19139http://www.artsdel.org/information/iafrecipients/longsdorf.shtmlhttp://www.thepapermachine.com/features/august09/ronlongsdorf.phphttp://radarredux.com/component/content/article/23-may-09-reviews/186-gallery-four-rectified-.htmlhttp://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=18160http://www.citypaper.com/arts/story.asp?id=18160shapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_6shapeimage_2_link_7shapeimage_2_link_8shapeimage_2_link_9shapeimage_2_link_10shapeimage_2_link_11shapeimage_2_link_12
“Another work that dwells on the role of memory as a tool for self-examination is Ron Longsdorf’s Drain, a sculptural installation combining domestic objects and video to create a familiar life situation.” - Vesela Sretenovic, Juror, GAPS, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA “The sculptural work by Ron Longsdorf and Mona Mullins Williams (honorable mentions) of house constructions evoked the sculpture of William Christenberry's decaying structures in rural Alabama.” - Marlene Rothacker, Juror, Radius 250, Artspace Gallery, Richmond, VA. Juror’s Statementhttp://www.artspacegallery.org/2009/exhibits/radius250/index.htmshapeimage_3_link_0