About Ronald Mallory

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    The following is from the artist, June 2002.

    A painter and sculptor dedicated to innovative and experimental techniques, Ronald Mallory is focused on going directly to the essence of art by confining an amount of mercury between planes of transparent plastic, mounting the whole thing on a slowly revolving motor, and then creating a wide variety of patterns with the resulting flow of the mercury.

    He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 17, 1939. He earned a BA Degree from the University of Colorado in 1951, a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from the University of Florida in 1955, and in 1956, attended the School of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro where he studied with Roberto Burle Marx. In 1957, he attended the Academy Julian in Paris.

    In addition to being a full-time professional artist, Mallory has been a visiting artist at the University of California at Berkeley in 1972; an Art Consultant and urban planner for Bunker Hill Redevelopment in Los Angeles from 1973 to 1974; and 1944 to 1998, a participating artist and curator for C Project, a holographic project that included Roy Lichtenstein, Chuck Close, Ed Ruscha and James Turrell.

    In 1999, he earned the Pollack-Krasner Grant and also a grant from the New York Council for the Arts.

    Solo Exhibitions include Gallery 93, Paris in 1961; Geminaire Gallery, New York, 1963; Stable Gallery, New York, 1966, 1967, 1968; Gallery Bonino, New York, 1971,1972, 1974, and 1981; Salone Annunciatta, Milan, Italy, 1972 and 1973; Gallery Iris Ciert, Paris, Farnce, 1971 and 1975; Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, 1973; 901 Canyon Road Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1995; and Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, 2001.

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