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Raymie Iadevaia (b. 1984, Newport Beach, CA) is a painter based in Los Angeles, CA. He received a BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts and an MFA from Art Center College of Design. Recent solo exhibitions include Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY (2024); Jack Barrett, New York, NY (2023); and The Pit, Los Angeles, CA (2023). Recent group exhibitions include X PINK 101, X Museum, Beijing, China (2023); Briefly Gorgeous, PHILLIPS X, Songwon Art Center, Seoul, South Korea (2023); and Market Art Fair, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (2023). His works are in the public collection of the X Museum in Beijing, China. 

Raymie Iadevaia paints to get closer to the textures of the world. Quick and prolonged gestures of staining, smearing, scraping, and scumbling layers of oil paint are made to create something fascinating. Variegating the surface with a multiplicity of marks and brushstrokes, hazy impressions of imagery culled from memory and imagination come forward. Meandering hiking trails, dense plant life, strange architectures, colorful creatures, faraway cities. Working into the vague passages, toning the surface with color, a mood and sense of motion is discovered. When the paint dries and the hazy beginning sets, the forms become concrete, but friable. Then the slow process of painting begins. Frenetic, nervous, anxious, jerking, jittery movements from the wrist and fingers are made, repetitive utterances like the casting of spells, to animate the putty of painted images. Bridging the conduit for the paintings to transform and transport into distant but strangely familiar places to experience.