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Museums can benefit from these compelling exhibitions of growing collections of Rhythmistic Visual Art that are produced around a central theme.  ONLI STUDIOS has developed concise exhibitions that streamline the process of offering great art to the enthusiastic art loving public.  Onli's practice is a tastefully rigorous Future-Primitif treatment of the great narrative-art traditions of the Western canon.

These proven visual art productions are both provocative and appealing.  Onli's Rhythmistic Visual Art is often looked at in the tradition of expanding narrative-art.  It is often a melding of visual adventure, critical techniques and materials. This is the result of a five-decade long practice. 

 Great for art enthusiasts, students and scholars.

The rare production of a dynamic creative artist exploring an over-arching theme.

These works are often human-figure-based yet infused with a variety of visual elements that speak to musical abstractions or performance compositions with a flow of imagination and originality that fills voids not regularly addressed in the current trends of the visual art world.  

These collections embrace the standards often found in major-market illustration and innovative representational painting, yet the intelligent re-contextualized subject matter is often thought provoking, multicultural, diverse or innovative while not being esoteric, trendy or narrowly relevant in the current yet passing narratives of protest or representation. 

ONLI STUDIOS is malleable to your logistics, vision, and resources in providing the best possible visual art experience. Wiki his name, Turtel Onli, for more information.

This is the work of an emerging genre.

Onli's work being viewed at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. 2020.

Excerpt of "No Evils" at the Box Factory For The Arts in St. Josesph, Michigan. 2019.

A review on Rhythmism as an evolving visual arts genre with positive growth potential 

written by Nate McLinn, a rare intelligent and well connected to the artists community independent art critic, for the Chicago Artists Coalition newspaper, 2008.

"Butterfly Melon" Oils on 18" X 24" archival canvas board. From the "Passion Fruit" collection.

A University of Chicago student visitor at ONLI STUDIOS.

Group showcase and convention at the WPA era South Side Community Art Center. 2015.

Solo exhibition at the ETA Foundation For The Arts, Chicago. 2009.

Solo exhibition and workshop series at the Corvus Gallery of the University of Chicago. 2021.

At the Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago. Juried Competition Exhibition 2021.

" NOG Banking!". Photo by Aki,

Curators visiting the "Rhythmistic Residency" at the Hyde Park Art Center. 2020.

Installing the "Mpogwe Quilt" of the "Rhythmistic Quilts" collection per the "Rhythmistic Smorgasbord" solo exhibition at the Box Factory For The Arts, St. Joseph, Michigan. 2019.

At the " The Rhythmistic Jimi" solo exhibition at the legendary Younger Gallery, Chicago, in 1981.

Above: QR link to ONLI STUDIOS web site.

Rhythmistic Visual Artist, Onli and Archivist / Librarian ,James Danky, 

at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. 2021.

Exhibitions, Residencies & Visiting Artist programming.