The "Combos," on view in "Ron Cooper: Racers & Combos," July 2 - 30, 2025, are created by joining two (or sometimes more) smaller two-foot sections of the Plexiglas boxes together. These combinations play with juxtaposing different colors and textures – for example a shimmering gold above textured blue, or a translucent yellow above a strangely crinkled and roiling gray-pink-blue.
In the gallery along with the "Combos" are two of his favorite retrofitted racers. For Cooper, becoming an artist wasn’t a forgone conclusion, as a young man he was drawing hotrods, sure he would become the greatest car builder in the world. Art interceded. But today Cooper enjoys both, building and racing cars and continuing to explore light and space with his art.
