Raylene Gorum was originally trained as an architect at California Polytechnic University SLO and Ecole d'Architecture de Paris. This background surfaces in her art via hyperbolic projections for the urban environment and the fastidious materiality of her works' construction.

London appears as if it's narrow mews were unfolded and overgrown with vegetation while Her Majesty's animal subjects migrate freely. New York commercially embraces her graffiti culture and reforests the avenue floors. San Francisco undulates improbably and lays golden tracks of car-free street life. These become earnest proposals if we believe that we, together, re-build our cities daily.

(I've augmented the traditional material list to include subjects and mappings to allow them to tell their own story. More on how these are constructed below. Enjoy!)


L O N D O N


Gilded London
60cm x 80cm
Mylar, tape, paint, paparazzi magazines, London underground map, Posh, Paris, Lindsay, buildings of Knightsbridge

and it's fraternal twin, also made during my sojourn in London


Natured London
60cm x 80cm
Mylar, tape, watercolor, spray paint, stamp, graphite, vintage wallpaper, the Queen's city animals, map of the London Underground, buildings of Knightsbridge, London


London Escapist
60 cm x 80 cm
Mylar, tape, spray paint, watercolor, ink, golden foil, Financial Times, map of London boroughs, spring night-sky for 51° latitude and my boy-torn model

In transition between London and New York

Pond Crossing
24" x 31 1/2"
Mylar, tape, spray paint, origami diploma collage, map of medieval London, spring constellation above London latitude.



N Y C


Daydreaming in the Valley of Heart's Delight: Part One
42" x 32"
Mylar, tape, silk screened foil, watercolor, 2nd Avenue, origami crease patterns


Graffiti City
7" x 20"
Mylar, spray paint, artist tape, collaged photos.


Leased Graffiti
20" x 14"
Mylar, tape, spray paint, graffiti collage, origami cranes (photo), lease transfer


This piece was based on time spent one summer between a borrowed home in Greenwich, CT and NYC. My city mind kept calculating the density missing from the bucolic backyard and the projects passed at the edges of the city.

Project Trees
24” x 36”
Mylar, tape, watercolored housing density map of NYC


S A N F R A N C I S C O


Trapeze Over the Universe
40" x 32"
Mylar, tape, watercolor, map of NYC silk screened onto foil paper


A Bridge Over a Deep Gorge"
43" x 32"
Mylar, tape, watercolor, silkscreen, cork, map of San Francisco, Redwoods,


E A R T H


When Bird's Roamed the Earth, Dymaxion View
20" x 32"
Mylar, silk screened birds, ink, Bucky Fuller's Dymaxion silk screen map

TAPINGS:

I maintain a broader definition of “tape” including off the shelf varietals found in hardware and art stores across the globe, custom manufactured rolls and original silk screened textures printed on luxurious papers with adhesive backings produced in the studio. Thus the palette does not blend as paint blends, but is drawn with a knife and assembled. The Tapings are built on translucent drafting film and framed between two plates of plexiglass. Backlit, the interplay of positive to negative is revealed in the luminescent joinery.