Ron Cooper pursues a parallel career as a Visual Artist, Designer and Stonemason. He was born in Los Angeles, California, and started his career in the late 1960s. He lived for many years inTaos, New... Read full biography
Ron Cooper pursues a parallel career as a Visual Artist, Designer and Stonemason. He was born in Los Angeles, California, and started his career in the late 1960s. He lived for many years inTaos, New Mexico, where he established Stoneworks in 1992. He studied Fine Art and Design in New York,... Read full biography
Ron Cooper pursues a parallel career as a Visual Artist, Designer and Stonemason. He was born in Los Angeles, California, and started his career in the late 1960s. He lived for many years inTaos, New Mexico, where he established Stoneworks in 1992. He studied Fine Art and Design in New York, receiving a BFA from SUNY Purchase, NY before returning to the West Coast. As a stonemason, he has specialized in custom hand crafted stonework installations for over 20 years. By 1973, he had already... Read full biography
Ron Cooper pursues a parallel career as a Visual Artist, Designer and Stonemason. He was born in Los Angeles, California, and started his career in the late 1960s. He lived for many years inTaos, New Mexico, where he established Stoneworks in 1992. He studied Fine Art and Design in New York, receiving a BFA from SUNY Purchase, NY before returning to the West Coast. As a stonemason, he has specialized in custom hand crafted stonework installations for over 20 years. 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.... Read full biography
Ron Cooper pursues a parallel career as a Visual Artist, Designer and Stonemason. He was born in Los Angeles, California, and started his career in the late 1960s. He lived for many years inTaos, New Mexico, where he established Stoneworks in 1992. He studied Fine Art and Design in New York, receiving a BFA from SUNY Purchase, NY before returning to the West Coast. As a stonemason, he has specialized in custom hand crafted stonework installations for over 20 years. 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, ne... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (17)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Harwood Museum: Collection Handbook
1997
Ellis, Robert M. (Director)
48 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Santa Fe Art
1993
Ellis, Simone
112 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984
Orr-Cahill, Christina
199 pages (color)
The Taos Artists A Historical and Biographical Dictionary
1984
Witt, David L
63 pages
Decade Los Angeles Painting in the Seventies (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Art Center College of Design
108 pages (color)
Los Angeles Prints 1883-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Feinblatt, Ebria/Bruce Davis
111 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
730 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
The West Coast Now Current Work from the Western Seaboard (Exhibition catalog)