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Biography
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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 that I would make these as an adult. In grade school, memorable projects were sculpting a bar of soap and creating a mosaic. As a senior in high school, I created all the art for my senior year book.
At 21, my first commissioned piece was a bronze wall sculpture that still hangs in a church in West Allis, WI. The majority of my work at that time and over the next 30 years was in oil paintings with strong three-dimensional elements, and free-standing sculpture.
I’ve been creating mosaics for eleven years and I think it’s an amazing medium. It allows me to create a depth of texture that demands to be touched and deep glass details that appear to glow from within. The mix of materials 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.
Mosaic has endless potential in its ability to come to life as sculpture, wall art, furniture and more. It can add dimension to architectural elements and water fountains or stand alone as a focal piece.
I believe that any well-developed artistic composition should provoke the beholder’s attention, have relevance, or provide a sense of correlation or involvement. But, if it cannot do any of that, at least it should make you smile.
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Fine Art by Ray Zovar
608-838-6617 Studio,
608-345-2991 Cell
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