Rex Ray

Rex Ray (September 11, 1956 – February 9, 2015; born Michael Patterson)[1] was an American graphic designer and collage artist, based in San Francisco.

[2] Early in his career he worked as a digital graphic designer for nightclubs and for music shows.

[6] He had two units in the Allied Box Factory building in the Mission District in San Francisco, one was his living space and the other was his art studio.

[3] His larger works were made by custom printing on colored paper, which was adhered to a canvas with a wet glue; and as the glue got tacky, Ray would cut patterns into the papers, as well as collage with them, and finish the process by sealing the surface with resin.

He died February 9, 2015, after a five year battle with lymphoma and was remembered by SFGate as a "versatile graphic designer who created book covers, tour posters and album art in San Francisco for 35 years.