Edmond Praybe received his B.F.A. from Maryland Institute, College of Art, and his M.F.A. from the New York Studio School. His work has been shown widely at venues across the U.S., including Manifest Gallery, Stephen F. Austin State University, The University of Mary Washington, Prince Street and Bowery Galleries, and the Mitchell Gallery. He is the recipient of the Hohenberg Travel Grant, and has received several Mercedes Matter Awards. Praybe was also a National Parks Artist-In-Residence, and is a member of Zeuxis: An Association of Still Life Painters. He teaches painting and drawing, and lectures about his work regularly at universities and art organizations throughout America. His work has been included in Painting Perceptions and Manifest Gallery publications.

Edmond Praybe works from direct observation. Praybe says, “The relationships I discover when working this way seem to be much more exciting and unpredictable than anything I could invent. My vocabulary of shape, color, tone, mark,and structure increases exponentially when I have something to look at and paint from. My personal, human connection to the subject is amplified as well – I can walk in the real space, touch the objects, talk to the people.” Contrary to these paintings, Praybe also makes invented and non-representational paintings. Each of his subjects, or genres of painting informs the others, helping Praybe to make decisions when working. Praybe says, “Above all, I’m trying to reconcile a seemingly impossible duality in my paintings – that they are tough, formally rigorous, calculated and restrained and at the same time genuinely human and full of life...”

Interview with Painting Perceptions