Ron Laboray

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Ron Laboray (b.1970) is a visual artist best known for conceptual art and painting. He lives in Granite City, Illinois.

[edit] Studio History

The work of Ron Laboray has been displayed in museums, special project spaces, not for profits and galleries in cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, Tiawan, Japan, Memphis,TN, Sadalia, and St. Louis.

His exhibition "After The C.E." at the University of Missouri was reviewed in Art in America ^[1]magazine.

The website of^[2] Peter Miller Gallery in Chicago describes Laboray's art as merging abstract painting and a pseudoscientific method to create a visual archive of popular culture. This method appropriates existing laws found in sciences, like the Law of Superposition, 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 popular culture. Abstract painting’s beautiful object collides with a color coded archive based on mass culture elements like television, cinema. comic books and advertising.

Major group exhibition have included Terra Incognita at The Contemporary Art Museum St Louis included in the exhibition were Julie Mahretu, Lordy Rodriguez, and Mark Lombardi.

Transpolyblu a Digital Exhibition including Wil Mentor, Sabina Ott, and Chuck Close.

[edit] Bibliography

Reviews and description of Ron Laboray's 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