Eric Raffy | Agora Gallery Digitally Represented Artist

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530 West 25th Street, New York, NY

Originally from Bordeaux, France, Eric Raffy is a highly successful architect and furniture designer, which has lent him significant notoriety in his career. He has worked on architecture and interior designs around the world, including a Buddhist temple outside of Tokyo, the Architecture of Restaurant Michel Bras in France and the Clinton Hotel in Miami. His vast experience in working across different cultures shows his skill and flexibility as a truly international artist. A few of his design sketchbooks are held at the Louvre Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris.

In recent years, Raffy has expanded his creative pursuits. He has taken to pastel and acrylics on paper and canvas, creating intriguing works that explore gender, sexuality, and the human form. He is interested in the politics of the human body, and seeks to create understanding of gender as a fluid spectrum, rather than a fixed identity. He has depicted images of drag queens and transgendered individuals as subjects. His goal is to translate the faces and the souls of his subjects onto canvases, and take an introspective look at their journey.

Raffy has a significant amount of experience showing his work around the world. He has exhibited at some of the largest and most renowned art and design fairs, including the Venice Biennale, as well as participating in smaller individual and group exhibitions. He currently lives and works at his home studio on the French Riviera.

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I have gained considerable notoriety designing furniture and decorative objects in my career. I have exhibited my designs around the world, and have found great success in selling my furniture on a large scale. I have worked with architecture, town planning, furniture design, and decorative arts for the majority of my career. Several of my furniture drawings and sketchbooks are kept at the Louvre Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris.

As I have gotten older, I have focused my efforts on painting. In my work, I use pastel and acrylic to create pieces that represent the marks of time on our bodies. I have been particularly intrigued by the culture and journey of drag queens. For me, they have a way of visually representing the aging process in humans, and I have used them as subjects in several of my works. I am interested in portraying the ‘violence’ of the aging process, and the way it betrays our lives. I have created a series of paintings that explore the themes of transformation and the body.

Arbres 1, 2020 Acrylic on Canvas 45.5” x 33.5” $ 2 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Arbres 2, 2020 Acrylic on Canvas 45.5” x 33.5” $ 2 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Trans 9, 2020 Acrylic on Canvas 45.5” x 33.5” $ 2 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Trans 14, 2020 Acrylic on Canvas 45.5” x 33.5” $ 2 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Trans 15, 2020 Acrylic on Canvas 45.5” x 33.5” $ 2 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Trans 13, 2020 Acrylic on Canvas 45.5” x 33.5” $ 2 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Trans 10, 2020 Acrylic on Canvas 45.5” x 33.5” $ 2 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Man in London 1944, 2020 Acrylic on Canvas 45.5” x 33.5” $ 2 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Trans 12, 2020 Acrylic on Canvas 45.5” x 33.5” $ 2 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

Trans Andy Acrylic on Canvas 20” x 45.5”

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Trans 6, 2020 Acrylic on Canvas 45.5” x 33.5” $ 2 5 0 0 – B U Y O N A RT-M I N E.C O M

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