J TIM RAYMOND
During this era of growing concern for the warming planet, I find inspiration in the beauty found in the degradation of nature and devastation to the environment caused by the man-made world. I work with layers of acrylic paint on paper, canvas, or wood--often found materials or previously worked-on art. My paintings represent an ongoing exploration of building textural surfaces onto the imagery of land and sea, sticks and stones, fire and ice—as well as the structures of civilization.
BIOGRAPHY
J. Tim Raymond was born in Kansas City, Missouri and has resided in Western New York since the early 1990s after starting an art career in Baltimore, New York, and Austin. Formerly an Art Handler in Washington DC and Manhattan, he went on to a position as an Art Instructor at University of Texas in Austin and a decade as an Arts Specialist at People Inc. in Buffalo. Previously, a docent at Albright Knox Art Gallery, he has been an exhibiting member of the Buffalo Society of Artists since 2022 and now serves on the Board. A painter for fifty years, he was represented for a time by Jack Tilton Gallery in Manhattan and has exhibited widely throughout Western New York during the last thirty years. Several new paintings were featured in a 2023 three-person exhibition, Sticks and Stones, at the C. Stuart and Jane H. Hunt Art Gallery in Buffalo. During 2021, he presented a solo show, Tabula Rasa, at the Levy and Daniel Families Art Gallery of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo. Additionally, he was included in the 2019 annual AMID / IN WNY Part 5 at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Raymond’s reviews of local gallery exhibitions were featured in the former weekly print publications Art Voice and The Public. Additionally, he has been involved for several years with theater as an actor, set painter, and board member of the Subversive Theater Collective. He also appears in two short films by Stephen Graham: Memories of the Future (2018) and Nature, Nurture, Negligence (2022).
Paintings by J. Tim Raymond have been acquired by Roswell Park Cancer Institute and several private collections.