Ray Katz is best known for his large-scale metal sculpture but works successfully in a wide range of media. Ray has exhibited sculpture publicly and privately throughout the Mid-West, Mid- South, West, and overseas in Paris, France and Tokyo, Japan.
Ray uses color because the properties of color are associated with social, political and spiritual beliefs inherent in the cosmology of all people. Color activates the elements and gives visual meaning to the organization of the abstract forms that he manipulates to create visual balance, using rhythm, action and movement. The implied energy of his compositional structures has become a hallmark of his work and is a metaphor for an evolutionary process that he associates with human experience.
Katz describes his compositions as abstract. The abstract manipulation of form in space to create visual balance, contributes to rhythm, action and movement. “My creative process requires organizing separate parts into a whole. I fabricate separate hollow forms and shapes and then intentionally combine them into compositions. I let the process of creation happen organically and quite spontaneously, instinctively and intuitively. The assemblage adds to the aura of complexity in the work. The activated forms are brought together to represent the flux of life and embrace transformative concepts such as evolution, metamorphosis and transcendence.”
