Prof. Onli is open to presenting his compelling yet appealing Rhythmistic Fine Art works directly to important collecting museums, forward thinking corporations, exceptional individuals, major universities, endowed foundations, and key art centers.

This favors the host exhibitors, bold collectors and Onli by not limiting or censoring these visual production offerings.

 Exclusively from ONLI STUDIOS LLC

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"Butterfly / Melon" Oils on 18" X 24" archival canvas board from

 the "Passion Fruit" Collection, Circa 2008.

 (Note: Her outfit contains the symbols related to sustainable practices.

Contrasting the delicateness of the butterfly with the heft of the watermelon. 

Both vital yet fragile in the cycles of health and ecological concerns.)

A collector of Onli's Rhythmisitc Fine Art selecting from works displayed at the 

Box Factory for The Arts exhibition, entitled "Rhythmistic Smogasbord". Circa 2019

The noteworthy Rhythmistic Visual Art by Prof. Onli 

makes for a perfect addition for the right collection. 

Onli showing the "Rhythmistic Bambara Madonna Quilt". 

A future-primitif recontextualized traditional world fertility icon. 

Approximate size is 7' x 4'. Inks & Dyes on cotton 

with traditional Adinkra trim included. Of the Rhythmistic Quilts Collection.

The following images, documents, talking points, and career landmarks serve as credible factors as to why these opportunities are both timely and promising to bold intelligent collectors who appreciate a more streamlined process for buying contemporary Fine Art and other collectables. 

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The exceptional collector's financial, social, personal, corporate or cultural strategy will benefit from the addition of Onli's Rhythmistic Fine Art. Buying direct from the source moves nimbly beyond the usual restrictions for a more immediate experience. Not sequestered on a blockchain or questionable origins. 

Actual Fine Art created with dedicated rigor and vision supported by an impressive pedigree.

The principal source.

Rhythmism expresses power and beauty!

"Reach": Oils on 30" X 40" antiquely framed archival canvas. Circa 2000.

From the "Metaphysical Rhythmism" collection. This bald, humble and pure Goddess is reaching to Ra, 

the source of Life, as the Sun itself is reaching to her with its life-giving energies.

 

Presenting fine art from 

the prolific & accomplished 

Rhythmistic Visual Artist, 

Prof. Turtel Onli, M.A.A.T.

"The Alchemist", acrylics on 30" X 40" canvas. 2000.

Onli earned two degrees from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago 

with studies at the Sorbonne, Atelier Pont Royal and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

                                                Cropped "Aide" from the current "NOG" collection in progress. Circa 2021

His uniquely impressive five decades plus dedicated practice has produced several complete bodies of fine art centered around distinct contextual themes. 

Cropped "Dancer's Trust" Oils on canvas.

 From the expanding "Rhythmistic  Danse" Collection. Circa 2015

Rhythmism has universal appeal! 

These comprehensive collections have been exhibited to positive transgenerational acclaim.  Their Future-Primitif stylizations, narrative character, imaginative content, archival quality materials, and experimental techniques predate and postdate the trending of Afrofuturism, populous protest art & variable predictable intersections of transitioning political or often exploited complex social agendas. 

                                           These are vital timeless nouveau classics. 

 Onli started his Rhythmistic career as an eight-teen year-old wunderkind in 1970 when he erupted on the peaking Black Art Movement and Counterculture scenes in Chicago.  

That year he formed B.A.G.: Arts Guild to facilitate the transition of young gifted visual artists from talented students into mainstream able creative professionals. 

To do great art one must have great initiative.

"Kokopellies: Art, Performance, Literature & Music". 

Each is about 48 inches square painted on archival cotton. Unframed. 

Of the "Rhythmistic Quilts" Collection. Circa 2020. 

Created during his Rhythmistic Residency at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.

This autonomous guild addressed the challenges of the repressive agism and conventional orthodoxy of that era that were designed to limit opportunities for youthful emerging artists. The majority of B.A.G.'s members were of the Queer spectrum. 

B.A.G. also served as the think-tank for "Rhythmism", as Onli felt the narrow orthodox term of "Black Art" was inadequate and vague. It seemed to lack the level of intellectual resonance of terms like  Dadism, Surrealism or Impressionism. Onli saw the need to establish distinct genres and accepted these challenges and opportunities in both fine and commercial art applications. Rhythmism!

  

Prof. Onli seated in front of a Rhythmistic painting he created 

live in a demo at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Summer 2021

Hype and a news-clip from the 1991 Retrospective B.A.G. exhibition at the Prairie Avenue Gallery, Chicago.

In addition to directing B.A.G. for its exceptional eight-year tenure, Onli went on to experiment with an assortment of Rhythmistic stylizations in Fine in independent galleries and Commercial Art in major market publications while serving as a clinical community-based Art Therapist and Visual Arts Educator. 

"Tao": Colored Pencils on vellum. 18: X 24: 

From the Metaphysical Rhythmism Collection. Circa 2005

The conventional art community would insist that Onli restrict his production to one style.  To maintain a uniform sense of content and a limited, more predictable visual narrative.  Onli felt he had a lot of things to say and numerous ways to communicate them in the visual art process.  

Be it Fine Art or Illustration...Art Education or Art Therapy, Onli was curious, productive and too independent for them. 

Onli's works often are often related to narrative art or classical illustration in its contextualization of the human figure as a universal metaphor that is often expressively melded with his more abstracting Rhythmistic elements. 

Onli developed his considerable skills and expansive production methods during his tenure as a major market freelance illustrator. Especially being able to focus on central ideas while illuminating distinct concepts.

Often hidden in plain sight.

"Bowie" for Playboy's OUI Magazine, circa 1975

Book cover for Holt, Rinehart & Winston, circa 1989

His powerful works have been shown in eminent world class venues such as The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The New Musuem of Contemporary Art, New York, The FIAP in Paris, and the DuSable Musuem of Black History plus an impressive array of independent glocal galleries.

Onli's early Rhythmistic work is featured as the lead illustration in this anthology on revolutionary jazz album cover art. Album and cassette covers were a great outlet.  During a time when Record Stores provided dynamic cultural networks Onli has honored and fortunate to have designed or illustrated enough to become a Voting Member of NARAS in the 1980s. NARAS produces the Grammies.

"Pink No Evil" per the cover of this literary anthology.

2000, Rizzoli International Publications:

 Onli has work in both the book and the exhibition at the

 New Musuem of Contemporary art that year.

 

His works are included in numerous important anthologies of Fine and Commercial art.

Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones checking out Onli's Album Cover illustration in the EMI Studios, Paris. Circa 1978. It was censored from use based on the commercial & moral norms of that era.

His major-market illustration client history includes The Paris Metro Magazine, Playboy, Capital Records, WGN Television Court Room News, The Rolling Stones, Singer Society For Visual Education, Chicago Magazine, and Holt-Rinehart & Winston.

"NOG: Nubian of Greatness" circa 1979, shown on its outer wall, 2021 

at the Musuem of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 

per its blockbuster group exhibition curated by Dan Nadel.

The "Rhythmistic Jimi" exhibition was lost in a devastating studio fire however it is being digitally reconstructed.

This insightful review was written by Harold Haydon of the University of Chicago's 

world famous Midway Studios. At the time Haydon was the dean of Art Critics working in Chicago.

 The "Rhythmistic Jimi" was a highly acclaimed growing multi-media exhibition that was a melding of creativity, politics, and counter cultural explorations. A kindred homage to the impact of the late musician Jimi Hendrix.

Onli was part of the international wearable art boom of the 1980s and showcased

 at the New York Art Expo in 1984 representing the legendary Younger Gallery of Hyde Park, Chicago.

"Danse of the 911 Phoenix": 30" X 40" 

acrylics on archival canvas circa 9-12 2001. 

Symbolic of the return of the American Spirit

after the terrible events of 9-11 which President Bush called, "An act of evil!".

 From the "No Evils" Collection.

"Never Evil" Graphite on 24" 36" archival board. Circa 2020 from the "No Evils" Collection. 2020

Onli at Michigan City's Southern Shore's group' exhibition in front of 

"Play Angels" oils on 40"-inch square canvas, from the "No Evils' collection. 

It begs the question: "Are angels the souls of the deceased or the spirits of those yet to be born?"

 

 Below "The Alchemist"; Acrylics on 30" X 40" museum profiled canvas. 

From the "Metaphysical Rhythmism" collection. Depicting the Alchemist in the mythical process of transforming lead into gold. We all wish to turn the worthless into a valued treasure.

Rhythmism is never sterile!

Onli's statement on the shocking impact of COVID. "Fear No Maskings". 

Acrylics on 24" X 36" wooden board. Circa 2020. From the "No Evils" collection.

Illustrating our primal fears at the start of the COVID Pandemic. 2020

Onli with the "Rhythmistic Bench" that is in the permanent collection of the Chicago Childrens Museum, Chicago. Crica 1995.  Located in Navy Pier, which is now the home base for the lucrative fabulous 

annual EXPO CHICAGO international Fine Art Exposition.

His academic pedigree includes a M.A.A.T. in Art Therapy and a B.F.A. in Art Education from the prestigious School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with studies at the Sorbonne, The Beaux Arts, The Contre Pompidue and the University of Chicago.

Now this accomplished practice's unique Fine Art is available to insightful and resourceful win-win focused individuals, museums, corporations and institutions who are comfortable to look beyond the limits of established gallerists and expensive arts brokers.  

Offering a great way to fill those gaps in existing collections.

Calculating collectors, curators and art lovers can contact us to explore our inventory of Rhythmistic Fine Art with its proven growth potential. EMAIL

Recently an early work of Onli's sold at the SWANN GALLERIES surprisingly successful auction of the important Johnson Publishing Company's Art Collection at eight times its original cost. BTW, this painting was the second Rhythmistic oil painting created by Onli when he was 18 years old. "Family Group". Oils. 1970.

All of the key  Rhythmistic works of visual art shown above 

are available for the right collector and fine art collection.

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