|
|
|
|
|
Biography
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I’ve always been an artist and have been fascinated with and worked in three dimensional art. I loved the dioramas at the Milwaukee, WI Museum, which was my urban playground when I was a kid, and imagined making them as an adult. In grade school, memorable projects were sculpting, drawing and creating a mosaic with smalti. As a senior in high school, I created all the art for my senior year book.
At 21, my first commission was for a life-sized, hammered bronze wall sculpture that still hangs in a church in West Allis, WI. The majority of my work over the next 30 years was in acrylic and oil painting with strong 3-D elements, and free-standing sculpture.
I created mosaics for over thirteen years and was astounded at the depth of texture, endless use of materials and various transformations of this medium. Like my mosaics, my current paintings have major elements of depth, texture, and details that appear to glow from within.
The mix of paint, sculpting medium and glazes forces me to view color in a whole new way and to find a balance between sparkle and vapidity, excitement and calm. My compositions tend to be playful and reflect my interest in the formal aspects of color, line, form, and movement.
I would like to believe my art will transcend time and each generation will see something new and relevant in their own era, a style that will look as fresh tomorrow as it does today.
Any well-developed composition should provoke the viewer’s attention, have relevance, provide a sense of correlation or involvement and, if it cannot do any of that, it should at least make you smile.
|
|
|
|
Fine Art by Ray Zovar
608-838-6617 Studio,
608-345-2991 Cell
|
|
