Who is Donray?

Donray (born Donald Arvin Ray, July 29, 1945) is a contemporary American performer in the style of Postmodern Expressionism in imitation of elements of Surrealism, Futurism and Fauvism. He is included in the Who’s Who in American Art. He is known for metaphorical imagery exploring the working nature of spirit and the human want for spiritual enlightenment and fulfillment.

Donray’s subjects include figures, objects and landscapes in motion, and his methods improve acrylic upon various media including Masonite, paper, canvas, and drawings in charcoal, conte crayon, and color pastels. His works have been collected and shown by a number of notable people and entities.

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Donray may be best known for an radical technique he uses in his acrylic works, a technique he has pioneered. It involves an acrylic-on-acrylic collage. The collage material is the similar as that bodily used to paint with, and developed through a tedious process of mixing, pouring, manipulation and cutting. The repercussion is a dramatic display of intermingling color, texture, depth, reflecting light, motion and energy.

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