raymond saunders "recent work"

“In the process of painting, for the one thing that someone sees, there are innumerable things that they never see”

– Raymond Saunders

RAYMOND SAUNDERS

Recent Work

September 5 – October 17, 2015 Raymond Saunders has been an important presence in American Contemporary Art for over 50 years. Frequently compared to Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Raymond Saunders’ voice has remained unclassifiable and singular. Unique in its expression, within each piece his voice is heard in dialogue with itself; like a freestyle jazz session where various instruments interact and respond with chance and intention, with rawness, and control. His predominantly black paintings combine energetic and dissonant mixtures of drawing, collage, assemblage and gestural bursts of paint. The personal scribbles, found objects, and enigmatic symbols are as revealing about his working methods, as they are subtle in encoding messages about politics, race and his life experiences as an African American artist. The dramatic black backgrounds provide a dark pictorial space reminiscent of blackboards. Knowledge and information is recorded with delicate white chalk-like lines that speak quietly against found objects and images, constructing narratives that push and pull in different directions frequently loaded with double meanings. Despite the use of disparate elements, the arrangements are unexpectedly elegant. They are a poetic depiction of what it is like to live in an urban city with a vast array of materials utilized in creating one’s identity. These carefully chosen materials once discarded by society, are reused by Raymond to compose lyrically engaged and wise works of art that dismantle cultural hierarchies and improvise with high and low. Raymond 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. from California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. Saunders has received multiple awards such as the Prix de Rome, 1964-1966, and the National Endowment for the Arts Award in 1977 and 1984, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1976. His work is held in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Raymond Saunders’ exhibition Recent Work will be his 10th solo exhibition with Lora Schlesinger Gallery. The Exhibition opens on September 5th and is on view through October 17th. The opening reception with the artist will be held on Saturday, September 12th from 5 – 7 pm. The gallery is located in the Bergamot Station Art Center, 2525 Michigan Avenue ,B5b, Santa Monica, CA, 90404 For additional information please call (310) 828-1133, view our website at www.loraschlesinger.com, or e- mail: [email protected]. CONTACT: Lora Schlesinger or Stephanie Mercado GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday – Friday 10:00 – 5:30 p.m., Saturdays 11:00 – 5:30 p.m.

Untitled (RS15-026) mixed media on canvas 30 x 48"

Untitled (RS15-033)

mixed media on panel 60 x 48"

Untitled (RS15-021) mixed media on panel 48-1/2 x 48"

Untitled (RS15-020) mixed media on panel 48 x 48"

Untitled (RS15-034) mixed media on panel 48 x 48-1/2"

Untitled (RS15-024) mixed media on canvas 29-3/4 x 40"

Untitled (RS15-022) mixed media on canvas 40 x 40"

Untitled (RS15-023) mixed media on canvas 63-3/4 x 97-1/2”

Untitled, (RS15-030)

mixed media on vintage door 80 x 30"

Untitled (RS15-032) mixed media on vintage door 80 x 27-3/4"

Untitled (RS15-031) mixed media on vintage door 80 x 32"

Untitled (RS15-004) mixed media on clayboard 10 x 8"

Untitled (RS15-027) mixed media on canvas 40x 29-7/8"

Untitled (RS15-006) mixed media on clayboard 10 x 8

RAYMOND SAUNDERS BORN 1934 Pittsburgh, PA EDUCATION 1960-1961 M.F.A., California College of Arts Oakland, CA 1959-1960 B.F.A., Carnegie Institute of Technology Pittsburgh, PA 1953-1957 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia, PA 1953-1955 Barnes Foundation, University of Pennsylvania 1953 National Scholastic Scholarship 1950-1953 Carnegie Institute of Technology Pittsburgh, PA SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015 Recent Work, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2012 “…not wanting a title”, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2010 For All of Us, Centre Cuzin, Auch, France Beauty as Empathy, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco 2009 “Works on Paper”, Stir Gallery, Shanghai, China 2007 Pittsburgh, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA “All Colors: from Oakland 2 Oakland” Joyce Garden Gallery Oakland, CA 2005 Paintings, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004 Gallery Resche, Paris, France Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR

2003 "New Paintings," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2002 "Raymond Saunders," Centre Jerome Cuzin a AUCH, France 2001 "Paintings & Works on Paper," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA 2000 Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR 1999 "New Works," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1998 Hunter College/CUNY Fine Arts Building Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Resche, Paris, France 1997 "Presence and Absence", Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisburg, VA 1996 Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Pittsburgh Center For The Arts, Pittsburgh PA College of Southern Idaho, Twin Falls, ID Holderbank, Zurich, Switzerland (two-person) "Raymond Saunders: Works of Paper," Miami University Art Museum, Oxord, OH Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA American Embassy, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 1995 "Raymond Saunders: Black Paintings," M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA De Chirico Museum, Greece 1994 G.R. N'Nambi Gallery, Birmingham, MI Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ Tucson Art Museum, Tucson, AZ "Raymond Saunders: New Work," Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA 1993 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA Galerie Resche, Paris, France 1992 Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL 1991 "Flowers from a Black Garden," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1990 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

"Raymond Saunders," Galerie Resche, Paris, France 1989 Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1988 Greenville County Museum, Greenville, SC 1987 Bank of America, San Francisco, CA Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA University Gallery of Fine Art, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 1986 University Gallery of Fine Art, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Terry Ditenfass, Inc., New York, NY 1985 Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1984 Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1983 University of Texas, San Antonio, TX 1982 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 1981 Hunter College, Art Gallery, New York, NY Traver/Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA Hunsaker-Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, WA 1980 Triton Museum of Art, Santo Clara, CA Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA Baum/Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1979 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1976 University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA 1975

Carleton College, North Field, MN 1974 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1972-73 The Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Providence Museum of Art, Providence, RI Toronto Gallery, Toronto, Canada Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY 1971 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY 1970 Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY 1969 Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY 1966 Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, NY GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2013 Group Show, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2013 Summer Group Show, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2013 The WILD Flowers, Sturt Haaga Gallery, Descanso Gardnes, La Canada Flintridge, CA 2011 Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA 2010 Small Works Group Show, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2009 “Summer Show,” Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2008 Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted 1907-2007, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Starhamm, Sweden “Yesterday and Today,” Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Invitational Exhibition, Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA “The Question is Known : (W)here is Latin American / Latino Art?,” Mission Cultural Center For Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA “Double Vision,” Front Gallery, Oakland, CA 2007 “Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA,” The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA “CCA[C] @ di Rosa Preserve”, Gatehouse Gallery, Napa, CA “CCA@Wirtz, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004 "A Survey Exhibition: Fade 1990-2003," California State University, Los Angeles, CA "What's Doin," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA "A Rare Glimpse: Modern American Art from Private Napa Valley Collections, Napa Valley Museum, Napa, CA 2003 "Cut, Copy, Paste: The Art of Contemporary Collage," de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA "Desires of the Heart: Selected Contemporary Graphics," San Antonio Museum of Art, TX 2002 "In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." a traveling exhibition organized by The Smithsonian Institution and Verve Editions "Portrait Obscured," The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA "Houses of the Spirit: Works by African American Artists," Miami-Dade Cultural Center, Miami, FL 2001 "Collecting Our Thoughts: The Community Responds to Art in the Permanent Collection," San Jose Museum of Art, CA 2000 "Strength & Diversity: A Celebration of African American Artists," Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA "Add/Drop/Add," Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA 1999 "Bay Area Now 2," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA "Seeing Jazz," traveling exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC "California Dreamin': Contemporary Art from the Bank of America Collection," Bank of America Gallery, Mint Museum of Craft + Design, Charlotte, NC 1997 "Seeing Jazz," traveling exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution. Venue: International Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC; "It's Only Rock and Roll," traveling exhibition. Venues include: The Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; North Carolina Museum of Art; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, OH; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI "The Unbroken Line, 1897-1997: One Hundred Years of Fellowship, A Centennial Exhibition", Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA "Homage to George Herriman", Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Highlights of Art from the Bay Area", The Shorenstein Company, San Francisco, CA 1997 "The Old 'New' Guard: Part I", J.J. Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1996 The Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA "It's Only Rock and Roll," traveling exhibition. Venues include: The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, VA; Tacoma Art Museum, WA; Jacksonville Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL; Bedford Gallery at the Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA "30 + East Bay Painters and Graphic Artists", Oakland Coliseum, organized by the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA 1995 "Blue," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Paper Prescence," Jan Abrams Gallery West Hollywood, CA

1994 Galerie Sho, Tokyo, Japan Terry Dintenfass, Inc., New York, NY "Art of the Twentieth Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection," Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, NY "Hine Editions/Limestone Press: Selections from the Archive," T.W. Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 1993 "The Purloined Image," traveling exhibition. Venues include: Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI; Columbus Museum of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH; Louisiana State University Museum of Fine Arts, Baton Rouge, LA; Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS; Bergstrom- Malher Museum, Neenah, WI "Ten African American Artists," Denfrei Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark Galerie Resche, in conjunction with FIAC "Present Tense," University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI "California: North and South," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO 1991 "Recent Acquisitions of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts; Part Two: 1950 - 1991," California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA "Cruciformed," Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH "African and Latin American Art," National Museum of Arts, Santiago, Chile "Behind the Scenes: The Collaborative Process," Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA "California Monoprints," Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX 1990 "42nd Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition," American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY "The Decade Show, Frameworks of Identity in the 1980's," traveling exhibition. Venues include: Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, NY; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY "African American Artists, 1880-1987," Selections from the Evans Tibbs Collections, Smithsonian Institution, traveling exhibition. "Art In Bloom," A.P. Gianni Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Mind & Matter," traveling exhibition. Venues include: The Chosun Ilbo Gallery, Seoul, Korea; Dowse Art Museum, Wellington, New Zealand; Bishop Sutter Gallery, Nelson, New Zealand; Manila, Philippines; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan; Hong Kong; National Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; National Museum, Singapore "Oakland's Artists," Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA 1989 "Award for Visual Arts: South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art," traveling exhibition. Venues include: New Orleans, LA; SECCA South Carolina; Fogg Gallery, Harvard, Boston, MA; BMW Gallery, New York, NY; BMW Gallery, Munich, Germany. "Twentieth Century Water Colors: Then and Now," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA "Raymond Saunders: Some Choices; Icono Negro: The Black Aesthetic on Video Art," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA "New Paintings," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA "The Appropriate Object," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 1988 "40th Annual Academy Institute Purchase Exhibition," American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY "Drawing Invitational," Hooks Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX "Peter Seltz Selects," The Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA "West Coast Contemporary," Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV "National Drawing Invitational," sponsored by AT&T Foundation and M.M Cohn, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

"Selected Works by Black Artists from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Readers Digest, Pleasantville, NY "Recent Prints from West Coast Presses," The Allport Gallery, San Francisco, CA Francine Seders Gallery, Ltd., Seattle, WA 1987 "Made in USA," University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, traveling exhibition. Other venues include: Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas, MO; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA; "Bay Area Influences: Four Artists," Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA "Second Stage of Modernism (1945 to the present,)" Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH "Tradition and Conflict: Images of a Turbulent Decade, 1963-1973," traveling exhibition organized by the Studio Museum in Harlem and circulated by the Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, 1986-1988, Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, Curator. 1986 "Between Metaphor and Fact: Recent Drawing," Leonarda Di Maura Gallery, New York, NY "Selected Works," Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA "Personal Reference," Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO "Afro-American Abstract Artists: 1945-1985," The Evan- Tibbs Collection, Washington, DC "Black Creativity, Generations in Transition: 80 Years of Black American Expression," Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL "Artists Food," San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA "Generations in Transition: An Exhibit of Changing Perspectives in Recent Black Americans, 1970-1984," Hampton University, Hampton, VA "Martin Luther King: A Documentary," Eloise Smith Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 1985 "The Menagerie," San Francisco Airports Commission, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA "37th Annual Purchase Exhibition Hassam and Speicher Fund," American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY "Artist's Forum: Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA. Exhibition traveled to Studio Museum, Harlem, NY "Harlem Renaissance," Bucknell University Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 1984 "Highlights: Selections from the Bank of America Corporation Art Collection," Bank of America, San Francisco, CA "San Francisco Bay Area Painting," Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE "The Human Condition: SF MOMA Biennial III," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA "Second Western State Exhibition/Corcoran 38th Biennial of American Painting," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA "West Coast Artists:Part II," Alternative Museum, New York, NY Afro-American Pavilion, 1984 Louisiana World Exposition, New Orleans, LA "In Visible Places," Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA California Museum of Afro-American History and Culture, Los Angeles, CA 1983 "Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Part I," Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA "Seoul/San Francisco: Exchange of Prints and Drawings," Seoul Fine Art Center, Seoul, South Korea "Second Western States Exhibition/The Corcoran Biennial Exhibition of American Painting," Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ "Contemporary California Prints/World Prints '83," College of Notre Dame Art Gallery, Belmont, CA "Resource/Reservoir: CCAC 75 Years," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA "Seven American Artists," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH "Second Western State Exhibition/The 38th Corcoran Biennial Exhibition of American Painting," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

SELECTED ARTICLES & CATALOGUES 2010 Baker, Kenneth. "Saunders in His Stride," San Francisco Chronicle, May 22 Torres, Anthony. “Raymond Saunders @ Stephen Wirtz Gallery, Whitehot Magazine.com Van Proyen, Mark. "Raymond Saunders @ Wirtz," squarecylinder.com Swanhuyser, Hiya. “Le Mond de Ray,” SF Weekly, March 31. 2007 Baker, Kenneth. “Saunders downtown,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 31. Cobb, Chris. “Raymond Saunders: Pittsburgh,” KQED Arts, http://www.kqed.org/arts/visualarts/article.jsp?essid=20963 Janku, Laura Richard. “A Century of CCA,” art ltd., September. 2006 Selz, Peter. “Raymond Saunders at Stephen Wirtz,” Art in America, March. 2005 Deterville, Duane. “Witness Raymond Saunders’ creative star at its zenith,” San Francisco Bay View, November 11. Baker, Ken. “Ignoring a friend’s advice, David Mamet plunges ahead as a cartoonist-sick jokes, punishing puns and all,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 25. 2004 ____. “Still Lifes Run Deep,” Angelen, June. 2003 Raymond Saunders x Jean-Michel Basquiat, exhibition catalogue, published Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, essay by Glann O'Brien. Baker, Kenneth. San Francisco Chronicle, Datebook, November 1. ____. “’Cut, Copy, Paste: The Art of Contemporary Collage’ at the de Saisset Museum,” Artweek, July/August. Fisher, Jack. “Conjuring worlds from bits and pieces,” The San Jose Mercury News, May 27, p.1E. Morris, Barbara. “’Cut, Copy, Paste: The Art of Contemporary Collage’ at the de Saisset Museum,” Artweek, July/August, pp.13-14. The Wave (image), May 8. 2002 First Grade: an interview with Raymond Saunders, paintings and drawings by first grade class at Park Day School, Oakland, California, spiral bound publication. Fisher, Jack. “About Face: Portrait Artists Find ways to Distill personality by Obscuring the Literal and Searching for Spirit,” The San Jose Mercury News, March 28. Serrell, Allison. “Agnes Bourne: Peripatetic designer practices what she preaches,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 14. 2001 Boas, Pat. "Raymond Saunders at Reed College," Artweek, January, pp.23-24. Foskett, Janelle. "Artist-lecturer offers and inspired change of pace," Mustang Daily, April 12, p.12. Frank, Peter. “Art Picks of the Week: Linda Besemer, Raymond Saunders,” LA Weekly, October 12-18. Ollman, Leah. “An All-Embracing View of Life Emerges in Saunders’ Works,” Los AngelesTimes, October 19. 2000 Robertson, Jean/McDaniel, Craig. “Painting as a Language,” Harcourt College Publishers, pp.138, 154. Chase, Hank. “Raymond Saunders Comes Full Circle,” American Visions, December/January 1999 Baker, Kenneth. “Finding the Heart of Darkness,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 9, p.B1. “Fall Arts Preview,” San Francisco Magazine, September, p.59.

Hamlin, Jesse. “Show at de Young, Yerba Buena reflect diversity and history,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 14. Rowlands, Penelope. “Bay Area Boom,” ARTnews, October, pp.100, 102, 104. 1998 Moure, Nancy. “California Art: 450 Years of Painting and Other Media,” published by Dustin Publications. Friedman, Nancy. “Art of the State California,” published by Harry N Abrams, Inc., pp.104-105. Helfand, Glen. "Alternativity," The San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 23-29. Johnson, Ken. “Raymond Saunders,” The New York Times, March 20, p.B35. “Raymond Saunders: Recent Work,” published by Hunter College of the City University of New York. Ebony, David. “Raymond Saunders at Hunter,” Art Net, March 31. Whiting, Sam. "Looking at Christmas From the Outside," San Francisco Chronicle, December 21, pp.E1, E5. 1997 Powell, Richard. Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century, Thames and Hudson, ill.: cover, p. 123, text pp.124-126. McKenzie-Nichols, Kathryn. “Art made for the ‘90s: New exhibit at Monterey Museum of Art at La Mirada focuses on newly created work,” Monterey County Herald, November 20-26. 1996 Faxon, Susan. Berman, Avis. Reynolds, Jock. Addison Gallery of American Art, published by the Addison Gallery of American Art. Baker, Kenneth. Raymond Saunders, Exhibition Catalogue from Holderbank Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland. Armstrong, Richard. Raymond Saunders: Forum, Exhibition Catalogue from the Carnegie Museum of Art. "Cultural Collage: transgressing boundaries", Arts at Miami, Summer/Fall, illus. p. 4, text p. 28. Artweek, "Oakland Museum News," March, vol. 27, no. 3. 1995 Weingard, David. "Datebook's Hot Picks," San Francisco Chronicle, February 19, p. 5. Smith, Roberta. "Avoiding the Hip, the Trendy and the Political," The New York Times, September 8, p. C24. Thym, Jolene. "Raymond Saunders: Black Paintings," The Oakland Tribune, February 24. Morris, Gay. "Raymond Saunders: Improvising with High and Low," Art in America, February, pp. 86 –89. Janson, H.W. History of Art, Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. New York, NY, Fifth edition. Lederman, Leon. "Blackboard Bungle," The Sciences, January/February. "Raymond Saunders: Recent Work," Exhibition catalogue from the Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA. Introduction by Philip Linhares. 1994 Nixon, Bruce. "Aftershock: ‘Black Power/Black Art' at San Francisco State University," Artweek, October 20, vol. 25, no.20, p.16. Cohn, Terri. "Raymond Saunders-'Malcolm X: Talking Pictures' at Stephen Wirtz Gallery," Artweek, October 20, vol. 25, no. 20 p. 17. "Black Art at the Palace of Luxembourg," Le Nouvelle Observateur, February 17 – 23. Seager, Joe. "African American Artists in Paris," Paris City News Briefs, February. "Once Welcomed, Black Artists Return to Indifferent France," The New York Times, The Living Arts, Monday, February 7. “Black Americans Visit an Indifferent Paris," International Herald Tribune, Paris, France, February 8. Turner, Nancy Kay. "Beauty as in Other," Northern California Art Scene, July/August Bonetti, David, Bay City Best, San Francisco Examiner Magazine, June 19. Hakanson Colby, Joy. "Naive and Sophisticated Proves Opposites Attract," The Detroit News, March 18. Tromble, Meredith. "Layers of Memory," San Francisco Focus, vol. 41, no. 7, July. Baker, Kenneth. "Raymond Saunder's Signs of the Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Datebook, July 10. Hamlin, Jesse. "Artist Finds Music in Cast-Off Objects, " San Francisco Chronicle, Datebook, April 5, section E1. Seaver, Lynda. "Urban Landscapes," The Oakland Tribune, April 5. Santiago, Chiori. "The Elusive Raymond Saunders," The Museum of California, Winter '94, vol. 18, no. 1. Faberman, Hilarie. Hine Editions/Limestone Press. The Archive at the Stanford University Museum of Art, published by

Stanford University, p.63. 1993 Raymond Saunders, catalogue published by Stephen Wirtz Gallery, Introduction by Toni Morrison.Powell, Richard J. "The Art of Raymond Saunders: Colored," New Observations, issue #97, September/October. Fish, Tim. "Sonoma County Galleries Full of Viewing Pleasures," The Press Democrat, September 24. Baker, Kenneth,"Raymond Saunders at Wirtz Gallery," San Francisco Chronicle, January 23. 1992 Nixon, Bruce, "Expatriates: Paris Connections at Bomani Gallery," Artweek, February 13. 1991 Litt, Stephen. "Using or Abusing a Powerful Symbol?", The Plain Dealer, September 8. Duer, Rene. "Raymond Saunders at Stephen Wirtz Gallery," Artweek, June 6, p.11. Bonetti, David. "Saunders Brings the Truth Home," San Francisco Examiner. May 17, p.C2. Rosenbrush Menther, Ellen, "California Monoprints-One of A Kind," Houston Herald Tribune: Herald-Voice, February. 1990 F.D.V., "The Decade Show, Artnews, November, pp. 165,168. 1990 Black Arts Annual 1988/1989, Garland Publishing Inc., New York, NY, pp. 10, 11, 27, 30, 36, 42, 44, 47. Frank, Peter. "Los Angeles Letters," Contemporanea, December, no. 23, pp. 24–27. Baker, Kenneth. "10 Years of Socially Relevant Art," San Francisco Chronicle, July 19, p.E3. Kimmelman, Michael. "The Force of Conviction Stirred by the 80's," The New York Times, May 27, pp. 25, 30. Van Proyen, Mark. "Rampant Diversity," Artweek, May 10, vol. 21, no. 18, pp.1, 16. Beach Culture , 1990, vol. 1, no. 2, April/May, pp. 38,42-43 Quinn, Jim, "Art Lessons," Philadelphia Inquirer, February 25, pp. 29-32. Cotter, Holland, "Black Artists: Three Shows," Art in America, March, pp. 164 –171. Hiemoff, Steve. "The Company He Keeps," San Francisco Focus, January, p.17. 1989 Parachini, Allan. "Sculptor, Painter Win $15,000 Visual Arts Awards," Los Angeles Times, October 16, p.F7. "Oakland Painter Wins Award," San Francisco Examiner, October 10, p.C1. Moser, Charlotte. "A Troublesome Niche For ‘The Appropriate Object,'" Artweek, October 7, p.4. Burkhart, Dorothy. "Show Highlight Individualism of 7 Black Artist," San Jose Mercury News, September 1. Templeton, John W. "The Appropriate Object," BAYOPTIONS, vol. 1 no. 11. Reyes, Eric. "The Appropriate Seven," Metro, September Miro, Marsha. "Freedom Theme Unifies Show by 7 Black Artists," Detroit Free Press, Sunday, June 4. Weimers, Leigh. "All Together Now," San Jose Mercury News, August 21. Burkhart, Dorothy. "Appropriate Assembly, Museum Showcases 7 Black Artists," San Jose Mercury News, August 25. Berland, Dinah. "Black's A color in Exhibit at Museum of Art," Spot Light, Press Telegram, June 25. Curtis, Cathy. "Radical Differences in Two Black Artists," Los Angeles Times, June 29. Mamet, David. "Notes for a Catalogue for Raymond Saunders," Artspace, May/June, pp.40–41. Burkhart, Dorothy. "Critic's Choice," San Jose Mercury News, May 21. Baker, Kenneth. "Sign From Saunders at Stephen Wirtz," San Francisco Chronicle, May 27. 1989 Brunson, Jamie. "Improvisation in the Realm of Memory," Artweek, May 27. Failing, Patricia. "Black Artists Today: A Case of Exclusion," Artnews, March. 1988 Brunsman, Laura. "Distant Voices," Reflex, March/April. "New Acquisitions," Art Museum News, University of California at Berkeley, April/May. Smallwood, Lyn. "The Many colors of Black Artists," Seattle Weekly, March 2.

Ament, Delorix Tarzan, "Gallery Celebrates Black History Month," The Seattle Times/Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 14. Turner, Elisa. "Art Shows Help Mark Black History Month," The Miami Herald, February 12. 1987 Baker, Kenneth. "New Works of Art in Search of Context, San Francisco Chronicle, May 2. Burkhart, Dorothy, "Critic's Choice," San Jose Mercury News: Art and Books, March 15. Roder, Sylvie, "Painters Show and Tell," Palo Alto Weekly, March 11. Donohoe, Victoria, "Power and Paint in Urban Collages," The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 14, p.3C. Edelman, Robert G., "Review of Exhibitions: New York-Raymond Saunders at Terry Dintenfass," Art in America, p. 146. 1986 Burkhart, Dorothy. "The Young Collectors," San Jose Mercury News, Arts and Books, August 24, pp.18-19, 25. Curtis, Diane, "Art Institute, Oakland, School Talk of Merger," San Francisco Chronicle, Thursday, April 24. Baker, Kenneth. "Color Field Painting by Frankenthaler," San Francisco Examiner, Review. "10 Leading Black Artists," Ebony, May. Gear, Suvan. "Dealers Show Their Hands in Selections for This Show," The Orange County Register, March 7, p. 37. "Art Faculty Selects Saunders Exhibit for Hearst Art Gallery," Artscene, May, vol. 1, no. 3 (cover). Sanders, Vicki, "To Saunders, Seeing is an Art," Miami Herald, Sunday, February 16, p.8K. Young, Al, "Black Heritage: A Month of Revelations at the Oakland Museum, " San Francisco Examiner, Image Magazine, Sunday, February 9, pp.38-39. Dalkey, Victoria. "The New Black Art, The Sacramento Bee, Encore Magazine, January 12, pp.16–18. 1985 Kinderman, Dr. Dietrich. "Black Artist Explores Form and Space, " The Idaho Statesman, November 29. Art Gallery Review, Los Angeles Times, October 11. Brenson, Michael. "Art: Studio Museum in Black Art of the 60's," New York Times. Miller, Donald, "Three Books Look at Art and the Artist," Pittsburgh Gazette, July 23. Wiley-Robertson, Salli, "Art in the Bay Area," Art and Antique Collector, August, vol. 2, no.10. Temko, Allan, ":Major Bay Area Art Exhibit Based on Albright Book,” The Museum of California, May/June. "Telling it Like it Was," ArtNews, April pp. 11-13. "The Fine Print," The Friends of Photography, Spring Berlin, Mark. "Raymond Saunders: Drawing on Children's Visions," The Berkeley Voice, March 6, p.16, (illus). Morch, Al. "Artist Finally Makes It Happen," San Francisco Examiner, February 18. 1984 Singh, Saunthy, "Exhibit: The Function of A Commercial Art Gallery, " Chico Enterprise. Speer, Robert, "Art: Take a Look...," CN&R. Meedon, Carol, "Commercial Garbage Adorns the Gallery Walls," The Orion, Chico, California, October 17, p.17. 1983 "A School with Backbone," ArtNews, November, p.12. Muchnic, Suzanne, "Black Works in Far Flung Showcases," Los Angeles Times, August 21. Kunter, Janet, "California Styles Less Distinct," Dallas Morning News, July 6, (illus). Morch, Al. "A Stimulating Artistic Gathering," San Francisco Examiner, August 8. "The Art of the Olympics," United Airlines/Mainliner Magazine, April, p.78. Marlow, John, "San Francisco, " Westart, May 27, p.2 (illus.). Shere, Charles, "Wirtz Gallery Exhibits Art of Lyric Optimism," Oakland Tribune, May 27. Scarborough, Jessica, "Intermingling Life and Art," Artweek, May 28. Marechal-Workman, Andree., "Profiting From Experience:Ray Saunders Transforms Life into Art," Focus Magazine, May. Glueck, Grace, "Two Biennials: One Looking East and the Other West," New York Times, March 27. August, Lissa, "Western Artists, Strut Their Stuff," People Magazine, March 14. Isenberg, Barbara & Muchnic, Suzanne, "Olympic Posters on View," (two articles), Los Angeles Times, January 12.

"Visions of the Olympics," Newsweek, January 24, p.74 (illus). Street, Sharon, "The Collective Unconscious of Raymond Saunders," City on a Hill, December 2. 1982 Burke, Carolyn, "Raymond Saunders: Paint it Black," Santa Cruz Express, December 2. Wilson, William. "Red, White and Blue-Black," Los Angeles Times, July 20. Wilson, Judith, "Raymond Saunders at Hunter Gallery and at Mythology," Art In America, March. Albright, Thomas. "The colorful Canvases of Four Painters," San Francisco Chronicle, February 27, p. 35. Cortright, Barbara, "University Art Collections: Raymond Saunders," Scottsdale Daily Progress, February 19. Rourke, Mary, "Raymond Saunders at Hunsaker-Schlesinger," Images & issues, Winter, p.88 (illus). 1981 Hackett, Regina, "SAM Exhibit Pushes Beyond Stereotypes," Seattle Post Intelligencer, February 1, p.H7. Glower, Ron, Everett Herald, February 5, p 1C. Tarzan, Delores, "Pair of Contemporary Artist Offer Exhibit of Free Wheeling Arts," Seattle Times, March 8. 1980 Moss, Stacy, "Unusually Interesting Show Opens at Triton," Peninsula Times Tribune, June 10. Gordon, Allan M. "Nommo Muse: Black Improvisation in California," New Art Examiner, June. Reilly, Richard, "An Artist Who Paints with Bits and Pieces, " San Diego Union, March 2, p.8. d'Elgin, Terishia, "Raymond Saunders Exhibit," The Reader, February 28, (illus). "Saunders Exhibit Opens at Mandeville Gallery," La Jolla Light, February 14, (illus).Reilly, Richard, "A Fitting Time to Laud Black Art and Artists," The San Diego Union, February 3, p.9. Stiles, Knute. "San Francisco: Raymond Saunders at Stephen Wirtz," Art in America, February, pp. 134-136 (illus). Heyman, Ann W. "Raymond Saunders," Art Voices South, January/February, vol. 3, no.1, p.63. 1979 Wilson, William & Muchnic, Suzanne. "Galleries," LA Times, November 23. Dunhan, Judith. "Bits & Pieces of Experience," Artweek, November 3. Temko, Allan, "The Ultimate Aim is Art, San Francisco Chronicle, October 25. Shere, Charles, "Raymond Saunders: the art of being," Oakland Tribune, October. Temko, Allan,"Celebration of Oakland's Superb Showplace," San Francisco Chronicle, October 7. Ramos, Leta. "The Artist's Palette," New West, July 2. Albright, Thomas. "Works on Paper, From Torture to Blackbirds," San Francisco Chronicle, July 27. 1978 Curtis, Cathy. "Twelve Artists and the Monoprint," Artweek, September 30, vol. 9, no. 32. "Black Artist;Up Against the Wall," Voice, September 11, p. 113. Shere, Charles, "Graffiti, More thank a Public Nuisance," Oakland Tribune, May 7.| Frankenstein, Alfred, "Graffiti take the Floor," San Francisco Chronicle, May 4. 1976 "Saunders, Gladstone to Exhibit at Barnsdall," LA Sunday Times Calendar, August 15. Albright, Thomas, "Saunders Out of The Bag," San Francisco Chronicle, January 17. "Rare Raymond Saunders at the University Art Museum," Independent Gazette, January 5. Dunham, Judith. "Raymond Saunders Recent Work,"Artweek, January 4, vol. 7, no.4. 1975 "Armistad II Opening is an Impressive Historic Affair,' New York Amsterdam News, July 30. 1974 "Raymond Saunders an Artist's Artist," Encore: American and Worldwide News, April. Donohoe, Victoria. "Goodman, Saunders Solos," Philadelphia Inquirer, January 31. Albright, Thomas, "First View of the Third World," San Francisco Chronicle, June 16. Shere, Charles, "Five Oakland, Artists," Oakland Tribune, May 5.

1973 Kramer, Hilton. "Art:Blacks: USA: 1973 is Electric," New York Times, September 29. 1972 Frankenstein, Alfred, "Ironic Contrasts on Art at Black Expo," San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 8.Gale, William K., "That;s the Way Saunders Saw It," Providence Sunday Journal, Sept. 12. 1971 Canady, John. "Black Artists in view in 2 exhibitions,”The New York Times, April 17, p. 52.

AWARDS 1989 Visual Arts Award: South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art 1984 National Endowment for the Arts Award 1977 National Endowment for the Arts Award 1976 Guggenheim Fellowship 1975 KQED Art Award, San Francisco, CA Granger Memorial Award, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1972 Society of Four Arts Award, Palm Beach, FL 1970 Atwater Kent Award 1968 Lee Cultural Center Award, Philadelphia, PA 1964 Prix de Rome, 1964-66 Ford Foundation Purchase Award 1961 Schwabcher Frey Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1959 Pittsburgh Playhouse Gallery Invitational, Third Prize 1957 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, First Prize in Oil Painting 1956 Cresson European Traveling Scholarship Eakins Prize (Thomas Eakins) Thoron Oil Painting Prize, First Prize First Prize-Figure Drawing, First Prize - Oil Composition, Pennsylvania Academy Scholarships PUBLIC COLLECTIONS ARA Services, Burbank, CA ARA Services, Philadelphia, PA Achenbach Foundation, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA William Hayes Ackland Art Center, Chapel Hill, NC Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover MA Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA Arizona State University, Matthews Center, Tempe, AZ Bank of America, San Francisco, CA California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA California State College, San Bernadino, CA Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

Chemical Bank, New York, NY Chermayeff & Geismar, New York, NY Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA Dartmouth College, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hanover, NH Dayton-Hudson Corporation, Minneapolis, MN Elvehjem Art Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Fisk University, Nashville, TN Frito Lay corporation, Plano, TX General Mills, Minneapolis, MN Hunter college, New York, NY Howard University, Washington, DC International Paper Corporation, New York, NY Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, CA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA Miami-Dade Junior College, Miami, FL Mobil Oil Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Oakland, Museum, Oakland, CA Park Hyatt Hotel, San Francisco, CA The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ Portland Art Museum The St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts, St. Louis, MO San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Security Pacific National Bank Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Southern California Gas Company, Los Angeles, CA University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA University of Texas, James A. Michener Collection, Austin, TX University of Utah, Art Museum, Salt Lake City, UT Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

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