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Raymond Persinger (born 1959) is an American artist best known for his large bronze sculptures and public art installations.
Persinger has created sculptures for many public and private collections, including the City of
PublicArt.org
website. As of 2008, Persinger was working on a Holocaust Monument project with poet and Holocaust survivor
Artist's Website
Current Glass Work
Dinamation Images
Holocaust Monument
Article (See Back Page)
ArtSchools.com Interview
Dispatch News Article
{{DEFAULTSORT:Persinger, Raymond American contemporary artists 20th-century American sculptors American glass artists American art educators Public art Living people 1959 births 21st-century American sculptors
Persinger has created sculptures for many public and private collections, including the City of Brea, California
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The city began as a center of cru ...
, Chapman University
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and the National Geographic
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Museum. His work has been selected for various exhibits by prominent curators, including Smithsonian Institution curator Dr. Virginia Mecklenburg
Virginia Helen McCord Mecklenburg (born November 11, 1946) is an American art historian and curator. Mecklenburg is currently the Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where she has worked since 1979. ...
, curator and Los Angeles-based critic Peter Frank, and LACMA curator Michele Urton.
Life and career
Persinger studied with Kenn Glenn, Stephen Werlick, Robert Graham andGeorge Segal
George Segal Jr. (February 13, 1934 – March 23, 2021) was an American actor. He became popular in the 1960s and 1970s for playing both dramatic and comedic roles. After first rising to prominence with roles in acclaimed films such as ''Ship o ...
. He holds a bachelor's degree from California State University, Long Beach
California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) is a public research university in Long Beach, California. The 322-acre campus is the second largest of the 23-school California State University system (CSU) and one of the largest universities i ...
, and a Master of Fine Arts
A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.)
is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admini ...
(MFA) from California State University, Fullerton.
In 1986, Persinger began working at Dinamation
Dinamation International Corporation was a robotics effects company based in San Juan Capistrano, Santa Ana, and Tustin, California, United States.
History
It was founded in 1982 by former airline pilot Chris Mays and some neighbors and droppe ...
, where he created life-sized sculptures of dinosaurs, extinct mammals and sea creatures for use in museum exhibits and worked as project director and manager/art director of the sculpture department. He was credited for his claw structure theory in James Kirkland's original paper on the dinosaur ''Utahraptor
''Utahraptor'' (meaning "Utah's thief") is a genus of large dromaeosaurid dinosaur that lived in North America during the Early Cretaceous period. It was a heavy-built, ground-dwelling, bipedal carnivore. It contains a single species, ''Utahrap ...
''. He left Dinamation
Dinamation International Corporation was a robotics effects company based in San Juan Capistrano, Santa Ana, and Tustin, California, United States.
History
It was founded in 1982 by former airline pilot Chris Mays and some neighbors and droppe ...
in 1996. Persinger also worked as a freelance artist for Disneyland’s Entertainment Arts.
Persinger was the sculpture program chair at the Laguna College of Art and Design from 1995 through 2013, during this period the sculpture program was considered one of the best figurative sculpture
Figurative art, sometimes written as figurativism, describes artwork (particularly paintings and sculptures) that is clearly derived from real object sources and so is, by definition, representational. The term is often in contrast to abstract ...
programs in the country.
In 2008, SIAS University
Sias University (Sias, ), transliterated Zhengzhou Sias College, and formerly known as Sias International University (), is a privately owned, for-profit post-secondary school in Central China. Formerly affiliated with Zhengzhou University, it is ...
in China's Henan Province invited Persinger and several other artists to participate in an International Sculpture Symposium
The International Sculpture Symposium movement was spearheaded by Karl Prantl in Austria in 1959.
This initiative grew from the need to facilitate communication and exchange between members of the international sculpture community. It was also roo ...
. Persinger's finished sculpture will be placed at the entrance of the SIAS campus sculpture garden. Persinger's work has been selected as an example of how public art is created on thPublicArt.org
website. As of 2008, Persinger was working on a Holocaust Monument project with poet and Holocaust survivor
Peter Fischl
Peter L. Fischl (July 19, 1930 – February 12, 2018) was a survivor of the Holocaust, a poet and a public speaker, who dedicated much of his life to educating people about the Holocaust and the importance of acceptance of others. Fischl worked on ...
. This monument will be placed at several museums around the world.
Persinger has recently turned to relief images in glass that examine the spiritual connection between man and nature.
See also
*Contemporary realism
The contemporary realism movement is a worldwide style of painting which came into existence c. 1960s and early 1970s. Featuring a straightforward approach to representation practiced by artists such as Philip Pearlstein, Alex Katz, Jack Beal an ...
*Classical Realism
Classical Realism is an artistic movement in the late-20th and early 21st century in which drawing and painting place a high value upon skill and beauty, combining elements of 19th-century neoclassicism and realism.
Origins
The term "Classic ...
References
;NotesExternal links
Artist's Website
Current Glass Work
Dinamation Images
Holocaust Monument
Article (See Back Page)
ArtSchools.com Interview
Dispatch News Article
{{DEFAULTSORT:Persinger, Raymond American contemporary artists 20th-century American sculptors American glass artists American art educators Public art Living people 1959 births 21st-century American sculptors