Recent Works

With this new series of watercolours, Ron Loranger answers a painterly question that occupied his practice for quite a while: How do you move your work from the subjective to the figurative? It seems to be by blowing up the ovoid leitmotif huge, increasing their size by a good ten times. By making them a singularity. Whether Loranger—the colourist—uses a monochromatic scheme or goes multicoloured, his work pushes aside previous preoccupations of abstract versus reality and creates a new figuration, one where hot, sexy blobs take front row and centre.

ABOUT RONALD LORANGER

Originally from Kapuskasing, Ronald Loranger is a Franco-Ontarian visual artist based in Montreal. His practice, usually entitled “Blobettes”, involves watercolour and India ink on Arches paper, but also takes the shape of painted installations in urban settings.

Loranger is very much involved in the world of artist-run centres: indeed, he has been part of several boards and committees, such as B.R.A.V.O.-SUD, Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario (GN-O) and Le Labo.

His professional experience includes exhibits in private galleries in Toronto, New York City and Berlin, and in public galleries, such as Kapuskasing’s Galerie Paquin, the Sudbury Art Gallery and the Glendon York University Gallery. He also took part in the Biennial of Textile Art in San Jose (Costa Rica) and the Fair of Alternative Art of Sudbury (FAAS). His works are part of private collections throughout North America and Europe.