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These paintings were painted in the 1980s and 90s when this photo was taken. Ray experimented with oil on wood of all shapes and sizes, some found and some created. Assemblage features in many of the pieces. He painted on wooden strips from 6″ long (300 of them!) to 16′ long (very difficult to photograph).
From these few slides it would seem that Ray’s more political paintings were in oils, but not always…
These oil paintings were made in the 1970s-80s. They were inspired by the imagery in Ray’s animated films from the 1960s-70s. Check out the film acetates for some of the original sources.
Largely plein air watercolors of the Mendocino landscape from the 70s and 80s. The house stands on the high part of the low part of the town of Mendocino with a 200 degree view of the Pacific Ocean. The studio, a wooden shed out back, was small and it was quite possible to be drawn […]
A series of self portraits from the late 80s or early 90s. Evolving from the representational to the surreal and into the abstract. Ray’s shed was full of self portraits, roughly 10 x 16 inches.
There are very few paintings in existence from Ray’s earliest years, the 1940s and 50s. Here is a sampling of what we have, both oils and watercolor or gouache.
Ray Rice painted throughout his 65-year career as a working artist. He experimented with paints, surfaces, sizes, shapes, assemblage, styles, intent, while pursuing a series of questions about painting: What is painting? What can it do? How? A selection of his paintings appear on this site organized largely by media, but also by period and […]
Raymond C. Rice was a painter, sculptor, mosaicist, printmaker, filmmaker, musician, writer, poet, and teacher. His work was exhibited all over the world, including the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco and the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is held in both public and private collections. Ray was […]