Ray Smith beeame known internationally at the end of the 1980s in the eontext of Neo-Expressionism, specifically in its Pieabian current. Ilis peers are painters like Sigmar Polke and David Salle, creators of provocative, hermetic worlds of superimposed images. Diseussion at that time centered on the end of modernity--understood as formalist dogma--and on new possibilities for painting. The intolerance of the Modernist style was attacked, and the ideas of synthesis and eclecticism were vindieated. Multieulturalism was beginning to be argued, and critical discourses were elaborated to deal with the art of the so-called Third World.

IMAGE & POSSIBILITY

SPECULUM ANIMALE:RAY SMITH IN THE MIRROR OF PAINTING

SMITH'S DELIRIUM

DEUS-MACHINE/POETICAL IDEOLOGY

RAY SMITH:WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DROWN A PORTRAIT

REVOLVERS

A BLUE RIVER COMES ACROSS ROOTS AND GRANDPARENTS

FEATURED WORKS

RAY SMITH CURRICULUM VITAE