LINK to PRIZM Art Fair 2022

Onli at the Southern Shore Gallery in the Arts District of downtown Michigan City circa 2017.  

NOTE: The painting on the right, "The Alchemist", is on market-exhibition during Miami Art Week 2022 in a major massive important group exhibition in the PRIZM Art Fair 2022. 

Robust well-resourced collectors and curators will be able to establish a meaningful connection to the Rhythmisitc Future-Primitif of Onli's original, hand-crafted fine art as a continuum from the Black Art Movement of the 1960s until now and beyond. 

Corporate and museum collections would benefit from the Rhythmistic Visual Fine Art offered by Prof. Onli.

Onli is the rare vintage continually practicing Visual Artist who started his dynamic career as a wunderkind teenager in the fertile milieu at the peak of the late 1960s Chicago based Black Art Movement.

Prof. Onli viewing his works 2021 at the Musuem of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

 Bad art or poorly executed art is not good for Art!

Standards in the Visual Arts matter more now than ever. 

There is so much more to art than "YUM" and "YUCK"!

Prof. Onli being honored by then Mayor Rham Emanuel of Chicago for a career of bringing positive diversity to the visual arts.

 

ONLI STUDIOS LLC is the exclusive dealer of the 

Rhythmistic fine art created by Prof. Turtel Onli.

For collecting or exhibitions.

Plus, residencies or lectures.

Contact: multiglobe@aol.com

(NOTE: For a better experience click on images to enlarge.)

To express your interest, 

visit our web site: www.onlistudios.com

 

Impressionism was not coined by Van Goth.  Surrealism was not created by Dali.  Cubism was not a genre created by Picasso.  Rhythmism was coined and established by Onli!

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 After the inspirational success of Onli's first published Rhythmistic Future-Primitif character being featured on the outer wall of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, mural sized, per the 2021 blockbuster group exhibition, "CHICAGO COMICS: 1960 Until Now", curated by Dan Nadel, Prof. Onli has decided to revisit NOG.  

The original vision in 1981 was to create an entire body of Rhythmistic Fine Art based on NOG.

"Aide": Oils on wooden panel. 24" X 48". 2022

He is now producing an entire exhibition based on the images and narratives in this unique Graphic Novel that was published in 1981. This production should be completed by late January, 2023.  Expect an exhibition that goes beyond the limits of trendy representation or popular protest statements in that NOG is a conceptual vehicle for the potential of Rhythmism as a genre and way of expression.

The first of these new exciting Rhythmistic paintings was featured in the 2021 retrospective solo exhibition Onli was honored with at the stately Gordon Parks Arts Hall of the University of Chicago.

Onli is one of the rare visual artists who actually conceived of a genre / movement. Typically the labels and names of visual art trends or genres are introduced and later established by Art Critics or historians.  Being a product of the counter-cultural movements of the late 1960s Onli decided to accept this creative calling to fill the void in the canon of the visual arts.  He saw Rhythmism and a Future-Primitif approach that is the intersection of vision & value.

"NOG Emerges": Oils on wooden panel. 36" X 24". 2021

With the glocal trending of the term "Afrofuturism" visual arts enthusiasts will love experiencing this coming showcase discovering that Onli coined the term Rhythmism decades before the emergence of the term Afrofuturism.

 

 

The Nu-Look Line by Johnathan Ford for ONLI STUDIOS LLC

It is ironic that famous visual artists often state comic-books as one of their major inspirations, yet they never had created a comic book of worked in that industry.  Conversely visual artists who have actually created comic-books tend to be low-balled as not being serious or highly valued visual artists.  This established practice of appropriation is finally fading.  Fortunately, dynamic visual artists such as Onli have been bold enough to freely pursue both Fine and Commercial art instead of being closeted.

ONLI STUDIOS LLC has re-organized in launching its "Nu-Look Line"designed by Jonathan Ford.  

Ford will produce the "Nu-Look Line" while founder, Prof. Onli will continue the "Classic Line" 

for the expansion of ONLI STUIODS Rhythmistic Universe.

The Classic Line by Onli for ONLI STUDIOS.

 "Future-Funk"....the iconic Rhythmistic 'zine was first published in 1982 and is still rolling. ONLI STUDIOS LLC is in production for the next version of it that will be about a deep dive into Rhythmism. Readers, creators, fans, scholars and haters all will find some visual Funk in the future.

Drop date will be Summer 2022. Cutting across two centuries of visual Funk!

Future-Funk was featured in the 2021 blockbuster exhibition "Chicago Comics: 1960 Until Now!" and distinguished not only the rare 'zine published by a Black owned operation but also one of the original true early indie 'zines.

 "Sasa: The New Face of Horror!" Rhythmistic movie release for only $2.00.  

Adapted from the hot, creepy, new horror tale that will keep you up at nights.

Uniquely Afrofuturistic & Rhythmistic!

NOTE: The lower image of Lil; Sasa is the link ot the movie trailer!

Trending now! Produced by ONLI STUDIOS LLC.  

Directed & Created by Prof. Turtel Onli, the "Father of the Black Age of Comics" 

and the founder of the Rhythmistic visual arts genre.

TRAILER LINK!

Onli's landmark works were featured in the historic book/anthology called "It's Life As I See It!".  This book showcased the critical inspiring works of several highly valued Chicago Black Cartoonists.  The entire first edition of our Rhythmistic character "NOG: The Nubian of Greatness. Protector of the Pyramides' appears in this uniquely intelligent book. 

Followed by NOG, circa 1980, being featured along with innovative issues of the 1980s classic 'zine, "Future-Funk" in the 2021 blockbuster, group exhibition at the Musuem of Contemporary Art, Chicago, "Chicago Comics: 1960 until Now!". 

This awesome ever-cool book and exhibition were the amazing industrious inspired work of curator / writer, Dan Nadel. 

 Plus, the solo retrospective styled exhibition, "RHYTHMISM: Art as Social Change Making" ran for several months at the stately Gordon Parks Arts Hall in the Corvus Gallery on the campus of the prestigious University of Chicago.  Lastly ONLI STUDIOS LLC published its first hyper-dynamic Graphic Novel, "Drawn For The Rhythmic Zone".

In appreciation as gratitude because none of this happens without your positive participation and openly sharing of all things Rhythmistic. 

Be well and Stay Smart!

Soild!

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