Meet Ray

Ray Gross is an artist, sculptor and designer, who maintains a studio in south Florida. He received an education in Fine Art at Florida Atlantic University where he went to major for painting but got clay under his finger nails and became a potter. 

The newly graduate had a garage studio in Lakeworth. On an October afternoon a Rolls Royce drove down the driveway and out came an elegant woman in a fur coat and said “i hear there is a pretty good potter here”. The philanthropist was Enid A. Haupt. She commissioned  Ray to make her flowers, to which Ray replied “no”. She then saw Ray had brushes dipped in glaze in his hands and said ” then make me paint brushes”. That was the pivotal moment in Rays career. 

 Most recently, his hand-built, hand-painted hyper-realistic porcelain sculptures depicting objects of everyday Americana, including utilitarian art objects such as paint cans, tubes, brushes, pencils, and other artist tools have seized the attention of collectors, and have been installed in public and corporate spaces world wide.

Often playing with scale as understatements and overstatements, Ray’s work involves completely handmade process from the beginning of construction to the final surface details of painting and glazing elements.  Each work is unique and one of a kind.  Commissions are available.