Derek Raymond - May 2021
Derek Raymond is a graphic designer and self-taught mixed media artist based in Providence, RI. After discovering graffiti as a teenager, primed by years under the influence of hardcore punk rock, various practices of self-expressive mark making became an obsession that would set the course of his adult life.
Derek Raymond’s current work is largely informed by the rudimentary aspects of graffiti, with an emphasis on abstracting and further manipulating unrefined aesthetics of both vandalism and vandalism removal processes.
Holistically, the ambition of his work is to dissect the urban landscape, and through developing a unique abstract visual language, pay homage to quintessential elements of city life.
Through this developing visual language and mixed media technique, he offers an opportunity to find, re-find, or re-imagine beauty in subconsciously hidden and unappreciated slivers of the modern city.
