Glennray Tutor

Glennray Tutor is a painter born in Missouri in 1950. He received a Bachelors in Art and English at the University of Missouri. He also has a Masters in Fine Arts. His paintings are a part of the photorealist movement. At the start of his art career, his paintings were landscapes of the mid-western United States. Now he paints items of nostalgia like comic book panels, toys, and marbles. One of his inspirations in this genre was Ralph Goings. His artwork has been shown nationally along with other renowned artists such as Audrey Flack and Chuck Close.

Her artwork reminds me of Doug Bloodworth’s in capturing the nostalgia of childhood. It seems like nowadays technology has so much involvement with our daily lives and we forget what it was like before. Tutor’s artwork really captures the simplicity of childhood. He is credited with being the first artist to give Pop Art a deeper, metaphorical meaning. In an interview he expressed: “My paintings consist of contemporary subjects used metaphorically. In my work I'm exploring various visual qualities of objects, as well as orchestrating ideas that I find alluring, such as: communication and relationship, time, narrative, childhood and adulthood, cosmic and quantum physics. My painting compositions are an interplay of the visual, emotional and intellectual.”