Ron Cooper (artist)
Encyclopedia
Ron Cooper is a west-coast based American
artist born in 1943 who started his career in the late ’60s in Los Angeles
. He currently resides in Taos, New Mexico
. By 1973, he had already participated in numerous international solo and group shows with pieces in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum
, NY
and LACMA. His work was exhibited at the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
, May 13-July 1, 1973. Cooper's work explores light, reflection, transparency, and color, through the medium of colored fluorescent lights, neon, and glass. In his Separator Variations series the colored fluorescent fixtures, separated by glass, reflect and appear to overlap combining the colors producing a third hue. Most of his pieces, like the Separator Variations series, demonstrate the additive nature of light, (the subtractive result of combining colors of light). His other work included environmental installations and neon focused on the same themes.
In 2009 Ron Cooper's work was included in a group exhibition at the Harwood Museum in Taos, New Mexico
curated by Dennis Hopper
called Hopper Curates - Larry Bell
, Ron Cooper, Ronald Davis
, Ken Price
& Robert Dean Stockwell
.
United States
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artist born in 1943 who started his career in the late ’60s in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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. He currently resides in Taos, New Mexico
Taos, New Mexico
Taos is a town in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico, incorporated in 1934. As of the 2000 census, its population was 4,700. Other nearby communities include Ranchos de Taos, Cañon, Taos Canyon, Ranchitos, and El Prado. The town is close to Taos Pueblo, the Native American...
. By 1973, he had already participated in numerous international solo and group shows with pieces in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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, NY
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and LACMA. His work was exhibited at the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, May 13-July 1, 1973. Cooper's work explores light, reflection, transparency, and color, through the medium of colored fluorescent lights, neon, and glass. In his Separator Variations series the colored fluorescent fixtures, separated by glass, reflect and appear to overlap combining the colors producing a third hue. Most of his pieces, like the Separator Variations series, demonstrate the additive nature of light, (the subtractive result of combining colors of light). His other work included environmental installations and neon focused on the same themes.
In 2009 Ron Cooper's work was included in a group exhibition at the Harwood Museum in Taos, New Mexico
Taos, New Mexico
Taos is a town in Taos County in the north-central region of New Mexico, incorporated in 1934. As of the 2000 census, its population was 4,700. Other nearby communities include Ranchos de Taos, Cañon, Taos Canyon, Ranchitos, and El Prado. The town is close to Taos Pueblo, the Native American...
curated by Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant...
called Hopper Curates - Larry Bell
Larry Bell (artist)
Larry Bell is a contemporary American artist and sculptor. He lives and works in Taos, New Mexico, and maintains a studio in Venice, California. From 1957 to 1959 he studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles as a student of Robert Irwin, Richards Ruben, Robert Chuey, and Emerson Woelfer...
, Ron Cooper, Ronald Davis
Ronald Davis
Ronald Davis , born 1937, is an American painter whose work is associated with Geometric abstraction, Abstract Illusionism, Lyrical Abstraction, Hard-edge painting, Shaped canvas painting, Color field painting, and 3D Computer Graphics...
, Ken Price
Ken Price
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& Robert Dean Stockwell
Dean Stockwell
Dean Stockwell is an American actor of film and television, with a career spanning over 65 years. As a child actor under contract to MGM he first came to the public's attention in films such as Anchors Aweigh and The Green Years; as a young adult he played a lead role in the 1957 Broadway and...
.
Exhibitions
- Ron Cooper, An exhibition by the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California, May 13-July 1, 1973.