Website

http://www.raydonley-online.com

Relationship status

married

College / University

The University of Texas at Austin

Program

BFA, MA

Member type

Artist

I am...

a latent homo sapien who, despite all, creates Baroque-inspired, psychologically charged fictional portraits that seek to illuminate aspects of the human condition.

About my artwork

It is what it is.

Artists I like

Mattia Preti, Salvator Rosa, Bernardo Strozzi, Giovanni Lanfranco, Bartolomeo Manfredi, Diego Velazquez, Bernardo Cavallino, Simon Vouet, Stephen Kasner, Alan DiGiovanni, Rembrandt, Maya Kulenovic, Jusepe de Ribera, Caravaggio

Interests

Film: Kenneth Anger, Peter Greenaway, David Lynch, The Kennel Murder Case, Fall of the House of Usher (Epstein), Alan Parker, Guy Maddin, German expressionist film, Jim Jarmusch, Alejandro Jodorowsky

Music: Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Hilary York, Arcade Fire, Tom Vandenhoven, Hans Zimmer, Hammock, Aaron Copeland, Silvius Leopold Weiss, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits

Authors: Malcolm Lowry, Samuel Beckett, John Banville, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Heraclitus, Petronius, Petrarc

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

"Awake in the City of Dreadful Night: New Paintings by Ray Donley," Gallery Bienvenu, New Orleans

The centre of the artworld is

another city