left: Menegodium, 2009, hand-painted collage
on linen, 76x68"
center: Collage 3138, 2010, hand-painted collage & resin
on panel, 16x16"
right: Collage 3137, 2010, hand-painted
collage & resin on panel, 16x16"
Rex Ray is one of San Francisco's most accomplished and
prolific visual artists. Known to traverse both the design and art worlds,
Ray's art can be found in museums and galleries as well as rock clubs
and on Swatch watches. Paper pieces, cut from fashion magazines
and hand painted, are assembled by Ray to create brightly colored collages
that range from delicate botanicals to ebullient constellations and modernist
sequences.
Ray's design work includes; line of rugs with Elson & Company; a limited
edition Artist Series Messenger Bag for Timbuk2; a signature gentlemen's
Swatch; CD packaging for David Bowie, Joe Satriani, Matmos, Deee-Lite
and has worked with Bill Graham Presents in over 100 tour posters.
In November of 2007, Chronicle Books published the first monograph of
Rex Ray's work, Rex
Ray: Art + Design
Selected Exhibitions:
The Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
The Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA
The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Broadbend Gallery, London, England
Velocity Art, Seattle, WA
Gotham Gallery, London, England