Raymond Macdonald
DISRUPTED REALISm, PAINTER AND SCULPTOR
Raymond Macdonald
BIO
After a brief time with the open program at Ontario College of Art in the late sixties I left to follow a number of OCA teachers to the University of Guelph Fine Art program to study in a more structured environment that involved the study of anatomy and medical dissection, as well as drawing, printmaking and sculptural technique. This certainly informed and fuelled my interest in expressing my art through the human form as entity and essence, an enclosure of the soul. The cracks and gashes in my work create exits for that soul as translated through expressionistic treatment of line, form and colour eventually joining in a style akin to early 21st century disputed realist painters who are "disrupting" figurative painting with technology, technique and memory-inspired alterations.
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basic info
Raymond Macdonald b. 1951
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lives and works in Kimberley, Ontario, Canada
Education
1968-1969 - OCA - Toronto, Ontario
1970-1974 - University of Guelph - Guelph, Ontario, BFA
group exhibitions
1974 - Printmakers at Guelph - University of Guelph - Guelph, Ontario
1976 - Juried Exhibition Graphex 4 - The Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford, Ontario
1976 - Juried Exhibition On View - Three Towers, Toronto-Dominion Centre, Toronto, Ontario
1976 - Juried Exhibition Rodman Gallery, St. Catherines, Ontario
1977 - Travelling Juried Exhibition On View - Ontario Public Art Galleries
2005-2007 - Annual Past and Present - Rumi Fine Art, Clarkson, Ontario
2015-2019 - Annual Apples & Arts - KIMBERLEY COMMUNITY HALL - Kimberley, Ontario
2025 - Annual Art in the Valley - KIMBERLEY COMMUNITY HALL - Kimberley, Ontario