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Geoffrey Raymond
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He is best known for painting best known for painting embattled Wall Street Chief executive officers, then exhibiting them in a public place and inviting pedestrians who pass by to annotate his work with Sharpies. His painting style is described as a Jackson Pollock/Chuck Close fusion. Raymond was born in New York City and grew up in Fairfax, Virginia.
He attended college at the University of Virginia, where he studied both art and medieval English, receiving a Bachelor"s degree in English in 1976.
He first started painting Wall Street figures in 2006 when he painted a portrait of New York Stock Exchange Chief Executive Officer Richard Grasso during the New York Stock Exchange compensation controversy. The first time he encouraged public annotation was in 2007, when he painted a portrait of News Corporation Chief Executive Officer Rupert Murdoch and exhibited it in front of the Dow Jones headquarters downtown.
Since then, he has painted a wide range of subjects, including former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, former Bear Stearns Chief Executive Officer Jimmy Cayne, former Lehman Brothers Chief Executive Officer Richard Fuld, former American International Group Chief Executive Officer Hank Greenberg, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, and others In 2011 he exhibited a second portrait of Murdoch and displayed it for comment outside News Corporation headquarters in Midtown Manhattan New New York
Raymond currently resides in Troy, New York and New York City.
