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① Artwork:
A Night on Earth
In this gouache, sumi ink, watercolor and graphite work on paper, a distant city lights up the horizon at night while moonlit trees and grasses occupy the foreground. Iadevaia has painted this image with hundreds of strokes that wind around and within the scene, using his signature style to lead the eye on a jaunt through his world.
Drawing is a crucial part of Raymie Iadevaia’s practice, as he believes that the exploration of marks on paper remains the most fertile ground for his expansive imagination. Titled Love Song, this suite of five works on paper acts as a sonnet from the artist to the act of drawing itself. All of these artworks were instrumental in developing the artist’s large-scale paintings.
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③ Artist:
Raymie Iadevaia’s paintings evoke hazy impressions of both personal memories and the imagination. The artist employs frenetic and repetitive gestures—similar to a puppeteer’s wriggling—to stain, smear and scrape layers of oil paint onto the canvas. Iadevaia’s compositions offer views of a larger and mysterious world, transporting viewers into distant but strangely familiar places.
BIO:
Raymie Iadevaia was born in Newport Beach, California in 1984. The artist received a BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Berkeley, California and an MFA from the ArtCenter College of Design in Los Angeles, California. A solo exhibition of Iadevaia’s work, Yonder, took place at Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton, New York.
Group exhibitions of Iadevaia’s work include: Greener Grass at Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton, New York; Cute Gloom at Lauren Powell Projects in Los Angeles, California; Search Party at My Pet Ram in New York City; Run with the Wolves at The Pit in Los Angeles, California; and Office Group Show at Bozomag in Los Angeles, California.
Iadevaia lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
In this gouache, sumi ink, watercolor and graphite work on paper, a distant city lights up the horizon at night while moonlit trees and grasses occupy the foreground. Iadevaia has painted this image with hundreds of strokes that wind around and within the scene, using his signature style to lead the eye on a jaunt through his world.More
- Unframed
- Signed on verso
