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Ray Donley Fine Art
If you are interested in work by Ray Donley, please contact one of the
following galleries:
f8 Fine Art, Austin, TX - Trinity Gallery, Atlanta,
GA - Jack Meier Gallery, Houston, TX - Blackhearth Gallery, London,
UK - Marshall Arts Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ - Parchman Stremmel Gallery,
San Antonio, TX - Sarah Bain Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Ray Donley
Since 1981 Mr.
Donley has been exhibiting in museums, universities, and galleries within
the U.S., Europe, and in Mexico. The figures portrayed in his paintings
- paintings that have, over the years, attracted a near cult-like following
- form a part of the cycle of work he calls Los Bien Perdidos (the profoundly
lost ones). Mr. Donley currently lives in Austin, Texas.
Ray Donley's paintings are part of the New Old Masterism, a slowly but
steadily emerging trend in ontemporary art, involving not so much a
return to order as it was once called, but the realization
that avant-garde art has become an institutional clich -hypertrophied,
as Clement Greenburg put it years ago - and that what once looked like
the clichs of Old Master art are still full of potential. Donley
is clearly a master of the medium of oil paint, as his subtle layering
and textural richness suggest. It is highly evocative - emotionally
persuasive all the more so because of Donley's exquisite chiaroscuro.
Donley's imagination needs no prompting. The Old Masters intuitively
understood that there is always something strange in beauty, as the
philosoper Francis Bacon said, a perception confirmed by the strange
beauty of Donley's paintings, as well as the strangely philosophical
figures that they bring to life.
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