Ray Hershberger
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Biography
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Ray M. Hershberger was born in Sacramento, California, but has lived in Norfolk, Virginia for more than 30 years. He attended Clemson University and received his BFA from Old Dominion University. An award-winning artist, Ray participated for many years in the local outdoor art shows. He has been an art instructor for more than twenty years and enjoys classes at varous levels of ages and skills.
Ray has a studio at Norfolk's d'ART Center. As an artist, he prefers to work in series based on similar themes or subjects. He has met with the same figure drawing group for more than twenty years.
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Statement
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Painting is the central point of my life. It is both my work and my recreation. I find it relaxing and frustrating. I am concerned with the why and the how of painting and the folding of them into the what I am painting.
Choosing what to paint can be the hardest choice of all, or sometimes the simplest. The choice of subject of implies a direction. It can be the beginning of a process, a search, a series. The choice of a subject often leads to months of exploration on similar themes and developments. The resulting series are tied together with similar continuties and new developments.
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Exhibitions
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2004:
Beaufort County Arts Festival, Washington, NC
Peninsula Fine Arts,
Newport News, VA
Signal 66 Gallery,
Washington, DC
Hermitage Foundation Museum,
Norfolk, VA
Armada Hoffler,
Virginia Beach, VA
2003:
Kane Marie Gallery,
Virginia Beach, VA
d'ART Center,
Norfolk, VA
Peninsula Fine Arts Center,
Newport News, VA
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