Raymon Elozua, b. 1947, West Germany, is a transdisciplinary visual artist working in Mountaindale, in the Catskill region of New York. His extensive studio practice consists of large-scale sculpture in ceramic, steel, and glass, photography, visual research and archiving, and web-based projects. Elozua’s work often references the vessel, Abstract Expressionism, industrial decline and decay, and regionalism. He began his career creating large scale photorealist sculptures of American industrial architecture. In 1984, he undertook a multimedia project on the decline of the American steel industry. Traveling to mill towns across the country, he took photographs of abandoned mills, researched public libraries, and scoured bookstores for any printed material related to the steel industry. In 1988, he completed the art project, "Home Scrap," a series of sculptures, paintings and photographs, accompanied by a catalog, shown at Carlos LaMagna Gallery, NYC and museums across the country. Since, he has worked on several different series of welded steel and ceramic sculptures, referencing the vessel and abstract expressionist paintings. He has taught at New York University, Pratt School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, California College of Arts & Crafts and Louisiana State University. He has received three National Endowment for the Arts grants in painting and sculpture and a New York State Foundation for the Arts grant in ceramics as well as a Virginia A. Groot Foundation grant. His work has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions. His work appears in collections at The Carnegie Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Mint Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), and Yale University Art Gallery, among others. In May of 2003, the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC presented a career retrospective survey of his sculptures, paintings, photography and digital works. In 2022, The Everson Museum of Art presented a major exhibition, “Structure and Dissonance.” For a copy of catalog and other publications go to raymonelozua.com/publications.