From chaos comes order. Roo Raymond has been living a creative life. Pictured here are paintings by a musician with a theatre degree who runs an annual summer camp for adult geeks and, much later than most, has taken up Pokémon, the Trading Card Game. Friends have called him overwhelming. Yet, between the bursts of idea production, he maintains a sense of order with his art. After a 24-year hiatus from painting but always maintaining an obsession with art and art history, Roo was inspired by the same style he disliked when he first painted: abstract expressionism. Seeing over a dozen Rothko's in one day pushed him over the edge. In his first year, he painted close to 200 pieces; by the end of the second, he had over 350. Each painting has a set of rules it adheres to; some developed as he paints, some developed before he begins. Unlike his music or his concepts for performance, there are often straight edges, flat colours, and uncomplicated themes of communication, understanding, and truth. All this alongside Lovecraftian fluid art, ridiculous titles for pieces and styles, and the occasional series, if one had to choose an Andy, more in line with Kaufman than Warhol. And now, he brings selections of his prolific catalogue to you.
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