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① Artwork:
Late August
This landscape painting employs a vibrant color palette to depict both architectural elements and natural features. The artist's paintings are windows into a larger mysterious world, giving viewers something new and surprising to look at with each passing glance.
Raymie Iadevaia uses paint to get closer to the textures of the real world. The artist stains, smears, scrapes and scumbles layers of oil paint to create variegated surfaces. The resulting compositions evoke hazy impressions of both personal memories and imaginary worlds—meandering hiking trails, dense plant life, strange architectures, colorful creatures and faraway cities. Iadevaia's paintings transport viewers into distant but strangely familiar places.
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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.