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Ray Donley
Ray Donley is an American artist who since 1981 has been exhibiting in museums and galleries within the U.S., Europe and Mexico.
The first time the Medici Gallery exhibited Ray Donley’s paintings
was at Art London in 2007 – all work was purchased, and this will
be the first time we have shown Donley’s work at the gallery. The
figures portrayed in his paintings, which have, over the years in the
U.S., attracted a near cult like following, form a cycle of work he calls
"Los Bien Pedidos" (The Profoundly Lost Ones).
'Ray Donley's paintings are part of the New Old Masters, a slowly
but steadily emerging trend in contemporary 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 cliché and what once looked liked
the clichés of Old Masters are still full of potential.
Donley is clearly a master of the medium of oil paint, as his subtle layering
and textural richness suggest. His work is highly evocative, emotionally
persuasive and all the more so because of Donley’s exquisite chiaroscuro,
his imagination needs no prompting. The Old Masters intuitively understood
that there is always something strange in beauty.' - Donald Kuspit
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Selected Exhibitions:
2007 Marshall Gallery, Arizona
2004 Jack Meier Gallery, Houston Medici Gallery, Art London Sarah Bain Gallery, Los Angeles
2006 Jack Meier Gallery, Houston
2003 San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, Principle Gallery, Virginia Galleria II Canovaccio, Rome Meyer Gallery,Utah Sarah Bain Gallery, Los Angeles
2005 Trinity Gallery, Atlanta
2002 Wright Gallery, New York
2006 Sara Bain Gallery, Los Angeles ArtPalmbeach, Florida Jack Meier Gallery, Houston
2001 Wright Gallery, New York Wright Gallery, New York Jack Meier Gallery, Houston
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