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Nine recent paintings by Raymond Saunders will be presented in Carnegie Museum of Art’s Forum Gallery April 13 through July 7, 1996. Saunders, an African-American artist and Pittsburgh native, attended Schenley High School and trained with local artist Joseph Fitzpatrick in Saturday classes.
Among the nine works on view are works that pay homage to Fitzpatrick and Malcom X. The show also features Saunders’ enormous work on six doors, The Gift of Presence (1993-1994) from The Oakland Museum of Art, California.
Saunders studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania, earning a B.F.A. at Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1960. In 1961, he received a M.F.A. at California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, where he teaches today. Saunders’ work is distinguished by his combination of found objects and painted surfaces. His wholesale incorporation of urban detritus is an early example of artist’s use of graffiti.
Part of → Forum Series
Forum Gallery presents the work of living artists in an ongoing series that invites them to expand their practice through a commission or new presentation of existing works. Initiated in 1990, and with 86 projects to date, the Forum series is an opportunity for artists to deepen their relationship to and understanding of the museum.
