Ray Philips

Born 1963, Ray Philips’s artworks essentially belong to the league of collage artists, highlighting a chaotic collage of a variety of popular motifs. The artist’s distinct thought-provoking artwork expresses the by-gone era of American attributes. Ray’s paintings are an amalgamation of various themes that evolves with every brushstroke, portraying his originality and uniqueness. 

A prodigy with an insatiable thirst for expression, Philips’s artistic endeavour began with his enrollment in the esteemed Houston Museum of Fine Art and school, now known as Glassell School of Art. This valuable opportunity to study fine art was imperative towards his professional career in graphic design.

Like most artists, Ray’s initiation into the art world did not happen instantaneously but through calculated strategy. Creating t-shirt logos, ad campaigns, branding, and making posters for his many clients in the morning, and performing in a band at night, he gradually developed his art career. The culmination of talent and devotion to his craft earned him the position as a creative director in a Houston firm for design and marketing. 

With his study in fundamental academic art and extensive experience on the professional front as a designer, Philips did not take much longer to receive the much-deserved recognition through his extraordinarily charged artworks.

Phillips’s work consists of a diverse range of art collections, employing mixed media, abstract, and typography. His works on eccentric themes depicting old Hollywood like Wild Wild West, Bang, and Marilyn ’62 are some of the iconic paintings that showcase a plethora of popular pictorials. Each art holds the bold ingenuity of the artist’s mind that does transpire on the canvas. 

Philips’s remarkable career in art has seen many exhibitions over the years in Samuel Lynne Gallery in Dallas, The Edge Gallery in Santa Fe, and Sippora Gallery, Houston, to name a few.

Ray Philips lives and works in the United States.