Ron Laboray
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Ron Laboray was born in 1970 in St Louis Missouri and grew up in Granite City Illinois. He received degrees in art from St. Louis Community College, University of Illinois Champaign/ Urbana, and his masters in painting at Washington University in St. Louis. His work has been displayed in museums and galleries in cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, Tiawan, Japan, Memphis and St. Louis.
His art merges abstract painting and a pseudoscientific method to create a visual archive of popular culture. This method comprises existing laws found in sciences and the artist’s sculptural mixed media mechanisms. The mediums used range from the digital to plastic, aluminum, auto lacquer, decals and marker which are all metaphoric of mass culture. Abstract painting’s beautiful object collides with a color coded archive based on mass culture elements like television, cinema. comic books and advertising.
Reviews of his work and exhibitions can be seen in the following publications: Art in America _ April 2006 - review “ Ron Laboray at UMSL St Louis” Mel Watkins Chicago Tribune- May 13, 2005- “Ron Laboray Lets Data Drive His Abstractions” Alan G. Artner River Front Times- Current Art- Review -Ron Laboray:After the C.E. Sept 2005 St. Louis Post Dispatch - July 14, 2002 Arts and Entertainment- Putting Art on the Map by Jeff Daniels Chicago Sun-Times - February 2, 2001 Gallery Glance by Margaret Hawkins New Art Examiner -May/June, 2001 Vol.28 # 8/9 Chicago's West Loop Gate by Lori Waxman Art Papers Magazine - May/June, 2001 Vol.25.3 Reviews Central - St. Louis by Jeffrey Huges
