Ralph Stout (Painting)

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Paintings 2011

Celebration, 2011	Gold Figure, 2011	Green Figure, 2011
Meander, 2011	Six Figures, 2011	Homage to Dubuffet #2, 2011
Luna, 2011	Scribble 2, 2011	Random Walk #6, 2011
Random Walk #10, 2011	Scribble, 2011	Reflection #1, 2011
Martian Canal, 2011	Grey Figure (left), 2011	Grey Figure (right), 2011
Random Walk #9, 2011	Gray Figure, 2011	Treescape, 2011
Random Walk #12, 2011	Random Walk #8, 2011	Black Figure, 2011
Terpsichore #1, 2011	Study in Orange, 2011	Tidal Pool #2, 2011
Red Figure, 2011	Terpsichore #2, 2011

Works on Paper

Untitled No. 10, 2011	Untitled No. 12, 2011	Untitled No. 11, 2011
Untitled No. 13, 2010	Untitled No. 9, 2007	Untitled No. 8, 2007
Untitled No. 5, 2007	Untitled No.4, 2007	Untitled No.1, 2010
Untitled No.2, 2007	Untitled No.3, 2007	Untitled No.6, 2007
Untitled No.7, 2007	High Five, 2011	Untitled Collage No. 5, 1996
Untitled Collage No. 4, 1996	Untitled Collage No. 6, 1996	Untitled Collage No. 8, 1996
Untitled Collage No. 7, 2011	Untitled Collage No. 9, 1996	Untitled Collage No. 10, 1996
Monochrome, 2011	Random Walk No. 1, 2007	Randon Walk No. 2, 2007

Earlier Paintings

The Hill, 2006	Reflection 3, 2010	Surf, 2010
Emblem, 2002	Collage No. 1, 2000	Triptych, 2002
Untitled Study #1, 2009	Untitled Study #2, 2009	Untitled Study #3, 2009
Random Walk No. 3, 2007	Collage No. 4, 2007	Collage No. 2, 2005-2007
Leaf and Stem, 2007	Diptych, 2003

Artist Statement

I have been, in turn, a lapsed graduate student in mathematics, a computer programmer and consultant, an inventor (see, for example, United States Patent 5590319), the president of a computer animation company, the chief scientist of a software firm, and a participant in at least two ill-fated high-tech startup ventures. The purpose of my daytime activities over the years has been to support my family while pursuing a nocturnal career as a painter and a photographer, and I have succeeded after a fashion. But, while I have always managed to set aside a certain amount of time for painting and photography, I have never had the time to bring my work to the attention of others. That is what I am now trying to do.

I graduated from Bucknell University in 1960 with a degree in Mathematics and went from there to Educational Testing Service, where I learned to program computers. In 1961, I left ETS, hoping to pursue an advanced degree in mathematics. Following a one-year stint as a graduate student at NYU, I dropped out, hoping, this time, to become a painter. Things might have turned out differently had I not been drafted at that point. Perhaps, but when I got out of the army in 1963, I went to work for Advanced Computer Techniques Corporation, a tiny computer consulting firm, and never looked back. ACT flourished, particularly in Europe, and I soon found myself in Paris, leading a developmental project in France for Compagnie des Machines Bull. I did not return for five years.

I came back to the US, and ACT, in 1975 and remained there until 1982 when the company founder and I left to form a new venture we decided to call LSInc. LSInc made technical history by building the first full-featured animation system for personal computers but it was never a financial success. NTT bought us out in 1986 and, as part of the deal, my partner left to live in Japan. I spent three tough years doing a variety of consulting jobs while trying in vain to raise money to build a new music synthesizer chip. In 1989, I joined Information Builders, a software vendor specializing in business intelligence and enterprise reporting and remained there until April of 2006.

My shadow career, as a painter and photographer, has been far less eventful. I began painting as an undergraduate at Bucknell. In the late sixties, at the urging of Wolf Von Dem Bussche, a photographer friend, I took up photography. I find I have little to say about either of these activities. It’s best, I think, to let my work speak for itself.