Raymond Yosuico

Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1955, Ray first picked up a brush as
a teenager, staking claim to his artistic legacy as one in a large
family of gifted people.

Accepted at Brooklyn's acclaimed Pratt Institute in 1974, Ray
became a casualty of 70's New York, lost to himself and his art.
During this time, Ray painted only in fits and starts. His resulting
work often reflects a surrealistic and poignant longing for the
unrequited.

In 1991, he hit bottom and soon experienced a spiritual conversion
that at last led him out of an existential famine-and likely saved his
life. In 2003, Ray finally returned to his first love of painting full
time. Today, Ray lives a quiet life with his writer wife Isabella and
son Pierce in art colony Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. Inspired by
the peace and beauty of his surroundings, Ray is painting more
prolifically than ever before.

A nimble artist interested in color, Ray works in oil, acrylic,
pastels, pencil, ink, charcoal and even children's crayons, often
mixing media to effect. Ray's work is colorful and evocative,
while displaying an unexpected sensitivity to detail and the
shades of his working palette. The influence of Kandinsky, de
Kooning, Soutine, Gorky, Debuffet and Pollack is glimpsed in the
fusion of color-blended intersecting geometric and fluid shapes.

Ray’s limitless imagination is not bound by convention, so his
time at the easel always yields something exciting and
unpredictable, while unified by a strong sense of color and form.

At times reflective and reverent, at other times graphic and
humorous, Ray's work confesses a complex inner life and the
external factors that have shaped him.