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Ray Turner

Skotia Gallery is proud to announce the release of Ray Turner’s book -‘Population’ featuring 196 portraits from more than two years of work. 

Published by the Pasadena Museum of California Art with essays by B.R.Gilbert, Roberta Carasso Ph.D., and James Scarborough  Population  corresponds with the exhibition by the same name at Skotia Gallery from August 7th- 28th and at the Pasadena Museum of California Art on October 4, 2009

Choose from five different covers and order your copy at $80 through Skotia Gallery by calling our toll free number: 866.820.0113 or email us at info@skotiagallery.com

Born in Stockton, California Ray Turner received his BFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, where he later taught for many years.

Known to develop thematic series Turner works with an array of subjects ranging from landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes, and industrial locomotives, to portraits. Inspired by the 19th century American romantic landscape painters and their quest for the sublime, he explores man’s dominion of nature or absence from it as if they subsisted beyond the constraints of time and space.His paintings become metaphors for the voyage that moves us through life, and his landscapes signify the cosmic conflict of the ephemeral versus permanence.

Turner’s palette usually embodies rich earth tones, varying from smoky grays, dark blues and ceruleans to vibrant yellows and oranges, with lighter gradients and the occasional streak of surprise. His brush strokes are confidently suggestive and the paint is applied lavishly in ample and lush impasto.  He poetically composes reality that only exists on canvas. Not interested in reflecting realism but rather inducing the viewer’s emotional senses while leading us into captivating uncharted territories, he tends to play with an aerial perspective, dramatizing the proportions of sky versus terrain heightening the mood and emotional charge.   Whether he paints a lone cityscape, unpopulated expanse of land, or surreal train settings, an earthly palette and his dexterity at maneuvering light give the works a slightly ominous but also mythical tone.   

Ray Turner is included in many publications including American Art Collector, Art Times, and Artweek magazine. Turner's work is exhibited in New York, California, and New Mexico in the United States, and Internationally in Berlin and Montreal.

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