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Bold, exuberant, and enigmatic, Red Star is characteristic of the work of Raymond Saunders. He combines powerfully painted fields of vibrant color with calligraphic marks and stenciled numbers in his gestural probing of personal identity. Rooted in the urban experience, Saunders’ expressionistically worked surfaces pulse with open-ended dialogue. The cacophony of traffic and other sounds combine in almost jazzlike motifs across canvases that function like walls covered with graffiti, as evidence of human existence. Fragmented and simultaneous, the “push-pull” continues beyond the picture plane. Apparently random yet thoroughly structured, Saunders’ paintings and collages record and communicate ideas as he embraces the diversity of experience as a way of life. . . .
:: Susan Badder, Senior Curator of Education Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which is available for purchase in the Corcoran Shop. :: Click here to purchase this catalog online
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