Roy LaGrone (born 1966) is an American
digital media artist
New media art includes artworks designed and produced by means of electronic media technologies, comprising virtual art, computer graphics, computer animation, digital art, interactive art, sound art, Internet art, video games, robotics, 3D ...
. His work, which ranges from large-scale
photomontage
Photomontage is the process and the result of making a composite photograph by cutting, gluing, rearranging and overlapping two or more photographs into a new image. Sometimes the resulting composite image is photographed so that the final image ...
,
animation and
video installations, often involve intricate illusions of three-dimensional space constructed from
found objects.
LaGrone studied at the
Atlanta College of Art (
BFA, 1989), and the
Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) is a private nonprofit art school with locations in Savannah, Georgia; Atlanta, Georgia; and Lacoste, France.
Founded in 1978 to provide degrees in programs not yet offered in the southeast of the Uni ...
(
MFA, computer arts, 2000).
LaGrone’s work has been exhibited at numerous venues including the
Smithsonian Institution’s
Anacostia Museum
The Anacostia Community Museum (known colloquially as the ACM) is a community museum in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. It is one of twenty museums under the umbrella of the Smithsonian Institution and was the ...
;
SIGGRAPH; and the
Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum.
References
* Meek, Vicki. Beta Projections and Artifacts from Earth, ''Art Lies'': Contemporary Art Quarterly 53 (Spring 2007), p. 122
* Smithsonian Anacostia Museum, ''New Visions: Emerging Trends in African American Art'' (catalog), pp. 12–13
* ACM SIGGRAPH 2003, "Electronic Art and Animation" (catalog), p. 105
* Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, "Our New Day Begun: African American Artists Entering the Millennium" (catalog), pp. 7, 41, 56
External links
Artist's statement in New Media Caucus journal ''Bits Bytes and the Rhetoric of Practice'', NMC Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus v3.1, August 2007
LaGrone's website
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1966 births
Living people
African-American artists
American video artists
American digital artists
Artists from Mississippi
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American people