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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1934. He currently lives
and works in Oakland, California. Saunders is currently
a professor of Painting at California College of the Arts,
Oakland, California.[1] He is a visual artist, with a place
help spread the Visual process of art to many
communities throughout the world.
Saunders works in a large variety of media, but is
mainly known for work that encompasses painting and
transversal media juxtaposition, sometimes bordering
on the sculptural (as in Pieces of Visual Thinking, 1987)
but always retaining the relation to the flat wall key to
modernism in painting. Saunder's painting is
expressive, and often incorporates collage (mostly
small bits of printed paper found in everyday life),
chalked words (sometimes crossed out), and other
elements that add references and texture without
breaking the strong abstract compositional structure.
This lends a sense of social narrative to even his
abstract work which sets it apart from artists like
Robert Rauschenberg, Jim Dine, or Cy Twombly, with
which it has obvious affinities. Besides his painting,
Saunders in known for his late 1960s pamphlet Black is
a Color arguing against metaphoric uses of the concept
'black' in both the mainstream abstract and conceptual
art world and Black Nationalist cultural writing of the
time.[2]
Raymond Saunders has had numerous solo and group
exhibitions from 1952 to the present. Contrary to
popular perception, his work is a part of several
important collections including the Achenbach
Foundation for Graphic Arts at the California Palace of
the Legion of Honor (San Francisco, California), Bank of
America (San Francisco, California), the Carnegie
Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), the Crocker
Art Museum (Sacramento, California), Hunter College
(New York, New York), Howard University (Washington,
D.C.), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New
York), the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (San
Francisco, California), the Museum of Contemporary Art
(Los Angeles, California), the Museum of Modern Art
(New York, New York), the Oakland Museum of
California (Oakland, California), the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania),
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San
Francisco, California), the Berkeley Art Museum
(Berkeley, California), the Walker Art Center,
(Minneapolis, Minnesota), and the Whitney Museum of
American Art (New York, New York).
His famous painting of Jack Johnson (1972, now in the
Philadelphia Museum of Art) was used as the cover of
Powell's Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century.[3]
Saunders has received numerous awards since 1956.
and works in Oakland, California. Saunders is currently
a professor of Painting at California College of the Arts,
Oakland, California.[1] He is a visual artist, with a place
help spread the Visual process of art to many
communities throughout the world.
Saunders works in a large variety of media, but is
mainly known for work that encompasses painting and
transversal media juxtaposition, sometimes bordering
on the sculptural (as in Pieces of Visual Thinking, 1987)
but always retaining the relation to the flat wall key to
modernism in painting. Saunder's painting is
expressive, and often incorporates collage (mostly
small bits of printed paper found in everyday life),
chalked words (sometimes crossed out), and other
elements that add references and texture without
breaking the strong abstract compositional structure.
This lends a sense of social narrative to even his
abstract work which sets it apart from artists like
Robert Rauschenberg, Jim Dine, or Cy Twombly, with
which it has obvious affinities. Besides his painting,
Saunders in known for his late 1960s pamphlet Black is
a Color arguing against metaphoric uses of the concept
'black' in both the mainstream abstract and conceptual
art world and Black Nationalist cultural writing of the
time.[2]
Raymond Saunders has had numerous solo and group
exhibitions from 1952 to the present. Contrary to
popular perception, his work is a part of several
important collections including the Achenbach
Foundation for Graphic Arts at the California Palace of
the Legion of Honor (San Francisco, California), Bank of
America (San Francisco, California), the Carnegie
Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), the Crocker
Art Museum (Sacramento, California), Hunter College
(New York, New York), Howard University (Washington,
D.C.), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New
York), the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum (San
Francisco, California), the Museum of Contemporary Art
(Los Angeles, California), the Museum of Modern Art
(New York, New York), the Oakland Museum of
California (Oakland, California), the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania),
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San
Francisco, California), the Berkeley Art Museum
(Berkeley, California), the Walker Art Center,
(Minneapolis, Minnesota), and the Whitney Museum of
American Art (New York, New York).
His famous painting of Jack Johnson (1972, now in the
Philadelphia Museum of Art) was used as the cover of
Powell's Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century.[3]
Saunders has received numerous awards since 1956.
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