Raymond Salvatore Harmon (born April 7, 1974) is an American artist who works primarily as a painter.

Biography

Born in Jackson, Michigan in 1974, Raymond Salvatore Harmon has lived outside of the US for 20 years.Raymond Salvatore Harmon PE3L Magazine Interview 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, street 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,Centre for Music Composition & Performance . Cmcp.gr. Retrieved on 2010-11-23. Harmon's use of abstract imagery is more directly influenced by the works of Harry Smith.Interview: Raymond Salvatore Harmon. Underground Film Journal (2009-03-02). Retrieved on 2010-11-23.

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.Wolfeyes Hypnotic Brutality cphdox.dkChicago Underground Trio – Chronicle cphdox.dk

As a record producer Harmon has worked with 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.Interview with Raymond Salvatore Harmon, Pendu Magazine, Sept 22, 2008 Additionally Harmon has performed improvised video with numerous musical groups from a diverse background including Exploding Star Orchestra,Wroclaw Weekly Online » Exploding Star Orchestra Sextet. Wroclawweekly.pl (2007-11-29). Retrieved on 2010-11-23. Rob Mazurek, Blood on the Wall, Diplo, Wolf Parade, Chicago Underground Trio, Birth Refusal, Mandarin Movie, Dave Phillips, HATI, Mikrokolektyw, and Jason Forrest.

Works

Exhibitions

Solo shows "Harmon’s Bizzare", The Old Bank Vault, London, UK 2019

"Escape from Brexitland", Light Eye Mind, London, UK 2018

"Endless Darkness/Endless Light", Larry Farber, Stockholm SE 2018

"Abstract Numerology" - The Old Dentist, London UK 2015 "ACID" - Imitate Modern Gallery, London, UK 2015Imitate Modern Acid page Retrieved on 2015-3-9. "MIRAGE" - LERATA/Skyline14, Los Angeles, CA 2014MIRAGE site Retrieved on 2014-3-9. "Keeper of the Gates" - Hackney Wicked, London, UK, 2013 "META" - 199 Chrystie, New York, NY, 2012Day in the Lyfe Magazine Retrieved on 2012-11-10. "GNOSIS" - Hackney Wicked, London, UK, 2012Beautiful Crime "Gnosis review" Retrieved on 2012-11-10. "Dweller on the Threshold" - Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn NY, 2009Raymond Salvatore Harmon's "Dweller on the Threshold" @ Secret Project Robot. FREEwilliamsburg. Retrieved on 2011-12-06. "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 2014Wallplay Retrieved on 2015-9-20. "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, 2010Arts and Culture Retrieved on 2013-8-20. "XD 01. User Experience" - SUDLAB, Naples, Italy, 2010SudLab Italia Retrieved on 2013-8-20. "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 2002Independent Exposure Retrieved on 2013-8-20.

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 (for Mr Boyd Lynn) – 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 Veves + Loas – 2007 The Philosopher's Stone – 2008 The Temptation of St Anthony – 2008 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 (Dweller on the Threshold) – 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

References

Further reading

External links

Harmon's work at Vimeo

Raymond Salvatore Harmon, profile at Independent Exposure