This Artist Converted a 13,000 Foot NYC Warehouse into his Studio - Ray Smith

Video from Joshua Charow

This Artist Converted a 13,000 Foot NYC Warehouse into his Studio - Ray Smith

"Ray Smith (American, b.1959) Born in Brownsville, TX, and raised in Central Mexico. Smith emerged in the 1980s, and continues to produce exuberant paintings and sculptures characterized by an inimitable style and subject matter that reflect his bi-cultural American and Mexican heritage. Contorted and morphed figures recur throughout his work, in a hybrid that draws from his early studies of fresco painting with traditional practitioners in Mexico, and an indebtedness to Picasso, the Surrealists, and the politically daring Mexican muralists. Through these varied beings, Smith reflects upon the complexities and absurdities of society, family, politics, culture, war, and the human condition itself, framed by birth and death. For inquiries: RAYSMITHSTUDIO@GMAIL.COM

Video Directed by Joshua Charow

Cinematography by Luke Piotrowski

Edited by Abraham Howard" from the video introduction

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