Drawing
mixed media, collage on board
50 x 48″
2000
Pittsburgh Series
mixed media on board
48 x 48 inches
2007
Untitled Painting
mixed media on board
48 x 48 inches
2005
Untitled Painting
mixed media on board
48 x 48 inches
2005
Pittsburgh Series
mixed media on board
48 x 48 inches
2007
Untitled : Beauty As Empathy
mixed media on wood
48 x 48 inches
2009-2010
Raymond Saunders’ signature assemblages are masterfully constructed and have a fresh and spontaneous quality that juxtaposes words and images from world culture with his personal artistic interests and preoccupations. Saunders’ keen sense of composition, form, and texture is balanced by his erudite use of color. His surfaces are spattered with expressionistic swaths of paint, richly colored, with delicately drawn figures, or inscribed with chalked words, names, and numbers. Saunders often uses materials from daily life such as handbills, comics, signs, old doors, which he has culled from his frequent travels. There is an abundance of invented and appropriated imagery and iconography which reference race, war, family, religion, poverty, wealth, people, and places amongst other subject matter. His powerful paintings and fluid spirited compositions combine to give the works a dense and engrossing narrative power. [Extract : Stephen Wirtz Gallery]
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