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.