Ro2 Art is pleased to present Every Day, a solo exhibition featuring new paintings by Dallas-based artist Ray-Mel Cornelius. The show will run from May 27 through June 24, 2017. There will be an opening reception held Saturday, May 27, from 7-10 p.m. at Ro2 Art, located at 1501 S. Ervay Street in Dallas’ Cedars neighborhood.
As in his past work, Ray-Mel Cornelius is concerned with reflecting on personal experience and how that experience can be interpreted as both objective reality and the creation of an individualistic mythology. For his new series Every Day, the artist turns his attention away from the rural and wilderness milieu of his prior work towards the urban environment that he encounters on a daily basis. In redirecting his focus, the artist fully explores the diverse Oak Cliff neighborhood that has been his home for 26 years, representing its heritage, diversity, and charm with a meticulously considered use of color, form, texture, and scale.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Raised on a farm outside a small town in Northeast Texas, Ray-Mel Cornelius found the inspiration of wide-open spaces and its inhabitants to be the catalyst for his work. Throughout his career as an artist, he has continued to explore the environment around him as subject matter.
Ray-Mel Cornelius graduated with a degree in art from East Texas State University (now Texas A&M Commerce) in 1977 and has lived in Los Angeles, Houston, and Dallas. While pursuing a career in book and magazine illustration, he also created easel paintings depicting life as he had experienced it. Cornelius began regularly showing this work in galleries in 2001.
Cornelius has had nine one-person shows and has had work in many group exhibitions, both juried and invitational. He has taught graphic design since 1987 and is currently the division chair of the Visual Communications Department of Brookhaven College. Ray-Mel Cornelius currently works and lives with his wife Becky and their three black cats in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas. They also have a second home and studio in Taos, New Mexico.
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