{"id":3418,"date":"2026-02-03T10:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T10:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.lelabo.ca\/artist\/ronald-loranger\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T20:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T20:36:19","slug":"ronald-loranger","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/artist\/ronald-loranger\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronald Loranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Loranger is a Franco-Ontarian artist, originally from Kapuskasing, who has lived in Toronto for several years. The Blobettes, or Blobs, are certainly his most well-known works: they have been exhibited in various galleries in Canada and abroad, and frequently reappear in Ron&#8217;s work. <\/p>\n<p>Ovoid and abstract circles, sometimes minimalist, often colorful, the Blobettes\u2014made of watercolor and India ink\u2014can take on different meanings: floating islands in the middle of the ocean, planets orbiting an unexplored galaxy, or juxtaposed with less abstract drawings to give them a certain depth, a new meaning.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Social media, the Internet, pop culture, fragments of everyday life, art history, and more personal references feed this visual universe. Deconstructed then reassembled, these images compose a rich language that is at once playful, precise, and deeply rooted in its time. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watercolors, creator of the famous &#8220;Blobettes&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3419,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"iawp_total_views":6},"medium":[134],"class_list":["post-3418","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","medium-painting"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/3418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/3418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5444,"href":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/3418\/revisions\/5444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"medium","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lelabo.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/medium?post=3418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}