Gordon Rayner
1935 - 2010
An important Canadian painter, printmaker, sculptor, muralist, commercial artist, musician and educator, Gordon Rayner was born in Toronto, where, with the exception of travel, he lived his entire life. He is discussed in virtually every Canadian art history book written since the mid 1960s, and his works have been featured in numerous exhibitions at major venues including two at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and five at the National Gallery of Canada. His art is in the permanent collections of dozens of Canadian museums as well as the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
Rayner's work boldly ricochets from one concern to another, even within the same painting, though his inventions are united by his broad touch and spectacular sense of colour.
His noted influences include his artist friends Michael Snow, Joyce Wieland, Dennis Burton, Graham Coughtry, Rick Gorman, Jean Horne and Robert Markle; as well as the art of Toronto artists William Ronald and Tom Hodgson; and American artists Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg and Richard Stankiewicz.
Rayner participated in countless exhibitions of his work. This tiny painting, made shortly before his death, is simply another look at the countless places and people that inspired him.
Source: askart.com
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