Alessandro Raho

Last updated

Alessandro Raho
Born1971 (age 50–51)
Nassau, Bahamas
Education Goldsmith College

Alessandro Raho (born 1971, Nassau, Bahamas [1] ) is a British artist. His work has been shown at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Contents

Career

Born in Nassau, Bahamas, Raho moved to London and attended Croydon College (1989–90) and then Goldsmith College, graduating in 1994 with a BA in Fine Art. [1] In 1995, he was included in the Young British Artist showcase Brilliant! at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. [2]

In early 1996, he was hailed as one of the great promises in British art, [3] and had expositions noted in the American [4] and the French press. [5] In 2001, Raho participated in an exposition called Unseen Landscapes, [6] in 2002, he was in the important Painting on the Move exhibition in at the Kunsthalle Basel. In 2003, exhibited his work at Cheim & Read Gallery in New York City, where his portraits received critical attention of The New York Times . [7]

In 2004, he was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery in London to paint a portrait of English actress Dame Judi Dench. [8] Imagining Dench as a "wealthy housewife," he painted her in a way that "thrilled and flattered" her. [9] [10]

Raho's work is collected by Damien Hirst, and has been shown in Tokyo, New York, and Salzburg. [11] Two of his pencil drawings, Catherine (2003) and Ewan (2004), are in the collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art, as part of a 2005 donation by the Judith Rothschild Foundation. [12]

In 2014 Raho was nominated and short-listed for the John Moores Painting Prize. The prize was a subject of a BBC 4 documentary. [13]

Alessandro Raho is represented by Alison Jacques Gallery, London. [14]

Style

Raho paints portraits of friends and family, seascapes and landscapes and still lives. He uses fine oil painting with a fresh contemporary approach. [15] His paintings and photographs were described as dealing with "narrative, nostalgia and desire," and he employs intricate technical processes "to make his paintings luxuriously photographic and his photographs deceptively painterly." [16]

Related Research Articles

Thomas Gainsborough 18th-century English portrait and landscape painter

Thomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes. Despite being a prolific portrait painter, Gainsborough gained greater satisfaction from his landscapes. He is credited as the originator of the 18th-century British landscape school. Gainsborough was a founding member of the Royal Academy.

Frank Auerbach German-British painter

Frank Helmut Auerbach is a German-British painter. Born in Germany, he has been a naturalised British subject since 1947.

Lucian Freud British painter and engraver

Lucian Michael Freud was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish architect Ernst L. Freud and the grandson of Sigmund Freud. Freud got his first name "Lucian" from his mother in memory of the ancient writer Lucian of Samosata. His family moved to England in 1933 to escape the rise of Nazism. From 1942 to 1943 he attended Goldsmiths College, London. He served at sea with the British Merchant Navy during the Second World War.

Marc Quinn is a British contemporary visual artist whose work includes sculpture, installation, and painting. Quinn explores "what it is to be human in the world today" through subjects including the body, genetics, identity, environment, and the media. His work has used materials that vary widely, from blood, bread and flowers, to marble and stainless steel. Quinn has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Sir John Soane's Museum, the Tate Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Fondation Beyeler, Fondazione Prada and South London Gallery. The artist was a notable member of the Young British Artists movement.

Peter Blake (artist) English artist

Sir Peter Thomas Blake is an English pop artist, best known for co-creating the sleeve design for the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. His other best known works include the covers for two of The Who's albums, the cover of the Band Aid single "Do They Know It's Christmas?", and the Live Aid concert poster. Blake also designed the 2012 Brit Award statuette.

David Hockney British artist

David Hockney is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th century.

National Portrait Gallery, London Art gallery in London, England

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. It was arguably the first national public gallery dedicated to portraits in the world when it opened in 1856. The gallery moved in 1896 to its current site at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar Square, and adjoining the National Gallery. It has been expanded twice since then. The National Portrait Gallery also has regional outposts at Beningbrough Hall in Yorkshire and Montacute House in Somerset. It is unconnected to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, with which its remit overlaps. The gallery is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

Albert Oehlen is a German artist. He lives and works in Bühler, Switzerland and Segovia, Spain.

Jonathan Lasker American abstract painter (born 1948)

Jonathan Lasker is an American abstract painter whose work has played an integral role in the development of Postmodern Painting. He currently lives and works in New York City.

Louise Fishman was an American abstract painter from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For many years she lived and worked in New York City, where she died.

John Keane (artist) British artist

John Granville Colpoys Keane is a British artist, whose paintings have contemporary political and social themes.

John Hoyland

John Hoyland RA was a London-based British artist. He was one of the country's leading abstract painters.

Ron Gorchov was an American artist. He was known for his colorful, abstract paintings on curved canvases.

Blue Curry

Blue Curry is an artist living and working in London, UK, who works primarily in sculptural assemblage and installation art.

Douglas Arthur Peter Field, known as Duggie Fields, was a British artist who resided in Earls Court, London.

Amos Ferguson was a Bahamian folk artist.

Peter Dench is a British photojournalist working primarily in advertising, editorial and portraiture. His work has been published in a number of books.

Lavar Munroe is a Bahamian-American artist, working primarily in painting, cardboard sculptural installations, and mixed media drawings. His work is often categorized as: a hybrid medium that straddle the line between sculpture and painting. Munroe lives and works in the United States.

Paul Benney is a British artist who rose to international prominence as a contemporary artist whilst living and working in New York in the 1980s and 1990s in the UK as an award-winning portraitist.

Kendal Hanna is a painter and sculptor who is known as one of The Bahamas’ first abstract expressionist. His works have been inspired by and compared to international artists and fellow abstractionists such as William de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Hans Hoffman, Joan Miró and Mark Rothko.

References

  1. 1 2 "Alessandro Raho". Cheim & Read. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
  2. ↑ "Brilliant! New Art from London/CAMH archive". Archived from the original on 19 November 2010. Retrieved 2 April 2010.
  3. ↑ Norman, Geraldine (1 January 1996). "The young pretenders". The Independent .
  4. ↑ "Stiff Upper Lip: British artists find irony in society's desperate politeness". Fort Worth Star-Telegram . 24 March 1996.
  5. ↑ "Artistes et galeries à travers le monde". Le Journal des Arts. 5 December 1997. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
  6. ↑ "Lowry the great minimalist". The Guardian . 25 May 2001. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
  7. ↑ "Art Guide". The New York Times . 3 October 2003. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
  8. ↑ NPG Online Archive, accessed, 11 March, 2010
  9. ↑ Jinman, Richard (19 January 2005). "National Gallery unveils Dench portrait". The Guardian . Retrieved 11 March 2010.
  10. ↑ Gold, Tanya (20 January 2005). "Nothing like the dame". The Guardian . Retrieved 11 March 2010.
  11. ↑ Williams-Akoto, Tessa (8 November 2006). "My Home: Alessandro Raho, portrait artist". The Independent . Retrieved 11 March 2010.
  12. ↑ Rattemeyer, Christian (2009). The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection: Catalogue Raisonne. Museum of Modern Art. p. 232. ISBN   978-0-87070-751-3.
  13. ↑ "Bohemian rhapsody: Alessandro Raho on Hastings as arts hotspot". BBC Arts. 27 October 2014.
  14. ↑ "Alessandro Raho" . Retrieved 30 April 2019.
  15. ↑ Ewan, Alessandro Raho (1999). The Guardian 20 May 2000.
  16. ↑ Nairne, Sandy; Sarah Howgate (2006). The portrait now. Yale UP. p. 150. ISBN   978-0-300-11524-6.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.