Ron Cooper (artist)

Ron Cooper ( born July 24, 1943 in Venice, California, USA, lives in Truchas, Mexico) is a contemporary American minimalist and abstract painter, photographer, sculptor and collage artist.

Life and work

Ron Cooper attended the Chouinard Art Institute in Valencia in Los Angeles County until 1963.

Ron Cooper is fascinated by the light, which strongly influenced him in his art and let him create an impressive array of media in seemingly contradictory artistic directions. His early works include large light sculptures made ​​of polyester resin and glass fiber.

He occupied himself with photography and experimented with images of illuminated torsos. As an homage to Eadweard Muybridge and Edward Weston, he created photographic studies of the human body, based on the classical ideal of Greek sculpture.

Example of his recent works are painted ceramics from torsos. Coopers painted torsos are an expression of his fascination with the effects of light on the human body. With the use of color drops recall his work on the Abstract Expressionism. Cooper breaks the three-dimensional quality of the ceramics and calls for a two-dimensional perception of his sculptural forms.

As a painter, he painted numerous paintings that are assigned to the color field painting.

Ron Cooper was a participant in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Department light light / idea and in the Department Individual Mythologies: Film.

Literature and sources

• Exhibition catalog: documentation fifth survey of reality - imagery today; Catalog (as folders ) Volume 1: (material); Volume 2: ( list of exhibits ); Kassel in 1972
• Documenta Archive (ed. ); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive to the documenta, 1972; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121- X