Raymond Yosuico
Painter
Berkeley Springs , WV
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 in art colony Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.
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. Always abstract, Ray’s work is colorful and evocative, while displaying an unexpected sensitivity to detail and the shades of his working palette. The influence of abstract expressionists Kandinsky, de Kooning and Pollack is often evident in the fusion of color-blended intersecting geometric and fluid shapes.
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.
Website:YosuicoStudios.com
Email yosuico@rialto.net
Phone 304.258.8665
Ice House Artists' Co-op * Independence and Mercer Sts. * Berkeley Springs, WV * 304-258-2300