Artist Bio:

Born in Southern California, raised all over the country by a family of, surfers, artists and wandering hot rodders. Photographer, Illustrator and self taught painter Sara Ray transforms the cryptic hot rod lifestyle into images both haunting and inspiring.

Sara Ray spent her early years riding in rusted hot rods filled with surfboards covered in sun bleached Rat Fink stickers. Her family made of legendary surfers, movie starlets and WWII veterans owned Barris custom cars before he was famous and started one of the nations first custom surfboard shops in the 1950's. Listing her influences she includes everything from old German masters and medieval manuscript illuminations, to 1940's Stag magazines, and Sunday morning cartoons. Her large paintings in oil glisten with full custom 'lead sleds' hot rod zombies and high flying bombers so realistic you can almost smell the burning gasoline.

Working in a cramped one room studio all hours she spends any free time wrenching on her own vintage cars and pursuing her passion for history, interviewing WWII veterans and traveling to various air, military and art museums in the world. Sara Ray currently hides out in Long Beach California.

Contact the artist:
www.sararay.com

Price:
$3600