Nate Ronniger

Essence No. 3

2019

Nate Ronniger is intrigued with the element of paper. While fashioning paper for the pedestals, foregrounds, and backgrounds, he realized that any idea he has involving color, form, texture, and pattern, can be brought to fruition with this material alone. Torn, translucent, cut, or folded, it can take on any manipulation he comes up with in any dimension. The more Ronniger constructs with paper, the more he envisions expanding these settings into greater and more elaborate maquettes from which he can paint. Ronniger was born in Salt Lake City, UT. After graduating from the University of Utah in 2000, he began focusing entirely on painting, and pursued his career path while living alternately in California and Hawaii. While attending different exhibitions of contemporary artists, Ronniger was struck by the modern approach to still life painting. From this inspiration he began to reinvent his own approach to fine art. He now paints scenes staged entirely by his own imagination and design. He lives in Salt Lake City and shows his work in many exhibitions each year.