Raymond Salvatore Harmon
Raymond Salvatore Harmon is an American artist who works primarily as a painter.
Biography
Born in Jackson, Michigan in 1974, Raymond Salvatore Harmon has lived widely throughout the US. Harmon currently resides in London, UK.Harmon is a proponent of non object oriented art. Utilizing architectural scale painting and new media/web based content in coordination with public performance, graffiti style ad bombing, and web based social engineering.
Harmon paints dominantly on an architectural scale, encompassing multistory building facades, sidewalks and street surfaces which he has referred to as "site specific paint installations." Visually his work is based in gestural abstracted forms utilizing intensely vibrant colours to alter the public perception of both the architecture and its contextual environment.
Harmon's previous film work is predominately abstract. Compared to experimental film maker Stan Brakhage, Harmon's use of abstract imagery is more directly influenced by the works of Harry Smith.
His work has been presented at numerous galleries and festivals throughout the world including – The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Unsound Festival – Kraków, Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, Copenhagen International Documentary Festival, Artist Television Access, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Cement Media Festival, Athens International Film Festival, RAW Tempel – Berlin, Axiom Theater, Northwest Film Forum, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and The Horse Hospital, London.
As a record producer Harmon has worked with highly acclaimed artists such as Chicago Underground Trio, Andrew Bird, Jim Baker, Josh Abrams, Rob Mazurek, Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre, as well as collaborated on projects with Alan Licht, David Grubbs, Wolfeyes, the Magik Markers, and Spires that in the Sunset Rise. Additionally Harmon has performed improvised video with numerous musical groups from a diverse background including Exploding Star Orchestra, Rob Mazurek, Blood on the Wall, Diplo, Wolf Parade, Chicago Underground Trio, Birth Refusal, Mandarin Movie, Dave Phillips, HATI, Mikrokolektyw, and Jason Forrest.
Timeline
On July 13, 2011, Harmon released his book "BOMB: A manifesto of art terrorism" via his website.In May 2012, Harmon announced the Seize Art Fare, which takes place on June 1 in London.
GNOSIS a solo warehouse exhibition by Harmon opened in London during the 2012 Olympics on July 27, 2012, was featured on Channel 4 News.
A solo exhibition titled META that opened in October 2012 in NYC was shut down the day after it opened by Hurricane Sandy
In February 2014, Harmon launched a major public paint installation in the Downtown Los Angeles Fashion District. The work MIRAGE features a 35ft by 130 ft mural incorporating augmented reality software available via his website.
In January 2015, Harmon opened his solo exhibition ACID in London featuring an immersive paint installation.
On 11 November 2015, Harmon held a one night popup exhibition as a fundraiser for his recently announced Beta Culture arts grant.
Works
Exhibitions
Solo shows
"Abstract Numerology" - The Old Dentist, London UK 2015"ACID" - Imitate Modern Gallery, London, UK 2015
"MIRAGE" - LERATA/Skyline14, Los Angeles, CA 2014
"Keeper of the Gates" - Hackney Wicked, London, UK, 2013
"META" - 199 Chrystie, New York, NY, 2012
"GNOSIS" - Hackney Wicked, London, UK, 2012
"Dweller on the Threshold" - Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn NY, 2009
"Transcendental Territories" - Inspire Fine Art, Chicago, 2007
"Isolated Instances" - Open End Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2004
"Isolated Instances" - Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2004
"Oneirographers Closet" - Feitico Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2001
"Dreamlife of Sleeping Buildings" - Cement Media, Eindhoven, Holland, 2001
"Subliminal Scores" - Around the Coyote, Chicago, IL, 2000
"Sprayed On In Light" - Outerpretation Media, Chicago, IL, 1997
Group shows
"Κατάσταση/Situation Athina" - IFAC, Athens, Greece 2015"The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale" - arebyte Gallery "Distrophies" Pavilion, London, UK 2015
"Light" - Alvarado Gallery, London, UK 2014
"Separation Anxiety II: RELAPSE" - Wallplay Gallery, New York, NY 2014
"Carnival of Colour" - Imitate Modern Gallery, London UK 2014
"Transmissions" - Galleria Mirada, Ravenna, Italy 2013
"Studio Upstairs" - The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK 2012
"Stirrings Still" - White Box, New York, NY, 2010
"XD 01. User Experience" - SUDLAB, Naples, Italy, 2010
"Manifest Destiny" - Urban 15, San Antonio, TX, 2008
Group show - La Enana Maron, Madrid, Spain, 2007
"Love and Other Difficulties" - Images and Views, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2006
"Infernal Bridegroom" - Axiom, Houston, TX, 2005
"Third Thursdays" - CHAOS Studios Artspace, Colorado Springs, CO, 2004
Group show - 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2004
"May Flowers" - 21 Grand, Oakland, CA 2002
Filmography
- Sprayed On In Light – 1997
- staticerosion – 1999
- Les Fantomes de Lumiere – 2000
- Tiny Inconsistencies – 2001
- The Koan of Sisyphus – 2001
- Unfolding Urban Algorithms – 2001
- Six Ways Sideways – 2001
- A Map of the City – 2001
- ambientlight – 2002
- Daath – 2002
- Fireflies – 2003
- Cloud of Unknowing – 2003
- The Three Stigmata of Marshall McLuhan – 2003
- Resistance – 2004
- violetsummer – 2004
- Reliquary of Light – 2004
- YHVH – 2005
- Plexus Illuminata – 2005
- Tree of Life/Tree of Knowledge – 2006
- Elevated – 2006
- Colorform – 2006
- redlight – 2006
- Secrets – 2006
- Cornerstone – 2006
- Chronicle – 2006
- 11:11 – 2006
- Traces – 2007
- Sigils of the Heptameron – 2007
- 'The Philosopher's Stone – 2008
- Veves + Loas – 2007
- Tactic – 2008
- Aleister Crowley's Rites of Eleusis – 2008
- Hecate's Moon – 2008
- A Story Never Told – 2008
- Hypnotic Brutality – 2008
- First Corruption – 2008
- Colossal Portal – 2008
- Liber O vel Manus et Sagittae – 2009
- Language Virus – 2009
- Choronzon – 2009
- Der Erlkönig – 2009
- Sat Around for Peace – 2009
- Greyscape – 2010
- Hadit – 2010
- Sound in Motion – 2010
- Dew Point – 2010
- At Night's End – 2010
- The Revelations of Maria Sabina – 2010
- Guerrilla Conditions: A Séance for Antony Balch'' – 2013