RAY SMITH - UNGUERNICA DRAWINGS

Ray Smith emerged in the NY art scene in the 1980s and continues to produce exuberant paintings and sculptures characterized by a blend of Magical Realism, Surrealism, Modernism, and his bi-cultural American and Mexican heritage. His work reflects the influences of early studies of fresco painting with traditional practitioners in Mexico and the politically daring Mexican muralists. The artist has held more than 50 exhibitions around the world during the last two decades, mainly in the United States and Mexico, but also in Japan, Europe, and South America. He participated in the 1989 edition of the Whitney Biennial in New York City. Smith exhibited at the First Triennial of Drawings at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, Spain, and took part in the group exhibition Latin American Artists of the 20th Century, which traveled from Seville, Spain, to the Musée National dʼArt Moderne at the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Kunsthalle in Cologne, Germany, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Smithʼs paintings are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, the San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas, the Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, amongst many others. He currently splits his time between New York and Cuernavaca in Mexico, and his ranch on the Texas/Mexico border.