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{{Infobox artist Ray Lorenzato (born Peter Raymond Lorenzato, (March 3, 1924 – November 10, 2006) was an American born abstract expressionist sculptor and art educator who gained prominence in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s and exhibited for nearly 50 years in California and Internationally. He was acclaimed for his early works of welded metals and concrete reliefs and his later works primarily in marble. Beginning in the early 1980s he spent half of each year in Italy, carving in the studios of Carrara and Pietrasanta. The other half of each year he resided in San Mateo, California and worked on finishing pieces shipped from Italy. BiographyLorenzato was born in Nashwauk, Minnesota to Italian immigrant parents, but grew up in California after the family moved when he was a young boy. After serving in the Navy during World War II[1] he began studying geological engineering at Colorado School of Mines. Due to family matters he returned to Colusa, California, where he attended an art class that ignited his passion for sculpture. He graduated from Humboldt State University (Arcata, CA) earning his Bachelor of Arts in 1952{{cn|date=November 2018}}, and California College College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA) where he earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in 1953{{cn|date=November 2018}}. He was drawn to abstract expressionism and began work in metals - aluminum, steel, copper; and concrete and plaster. While studying in Oakland, Lorenzato began exhibiting in invitational and juried shows in the San Francisco Bay Area. From 1952 to 1964 his work continued to gain recognition, placing works in juried annual exhibits at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Art Commission of the City of San Francisco, the Oakland Art Gallery and Oakland Museum of California, the Richmond Museum, and the California Palace of Legion of Honor and the De Young Museum in San Francisco. He had invitational exhibits at the De Young Museum of Art and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. In 1953 he won a City of San Francisco Purchase Award from the San Francisco Art Festival and a bronze medal from the Oakland Art Gallery in the Exhibition of Oils and Sculpture.{{cn|date=November 2018}} In 1957 the California Palace of The Legion of Honor held a one-man exhibit of his work[2]. Beginning in the mid 1950s much of Lorenzato’s attention was dedicated to teaching art, and in the 1960s and 70s his work was shown only occasionally while his attention was focused on teaching and raising his family. He taught drawing, painting, three-dimensional design and sculpture from 1955 through 1984, (at Jefferson High School, Daly City, CA 1955-1966 and College of San Mateo, San Mateo, CA 1966-1984). He initiated several new courses during this time, including opportunities for stone carving and bronze casting, creating a foundry at the College of San Mateo. His passion for learning and teaching led him to take a year-long sabbatical to Mexico and Guatemala in 1963, where he studied the art and culture of indigenous people. In 1972 he took a second sabbatical to Europe and Asia Minor, studying the European masters, ancient and contemporary architecture, and historical and contemporary collections exhibited in museums, studios and public areas. In 1983 he took a professional growth leave and went to Italy to explore stone carving. He was greatly influenced by his travels and the histories of each region he visited and this exposure is imbedded in his sculptural works. After his excursion into marble in 1983, Lorenzato focused solely on stone. He retired from teaching in 1984 and for the next 15 years spent six months each year in Pietrasanta, Italy carving and constructing stone sculpture. He continued to teach short courses in marble carving for a number of years after his retirement from full time teaching. Works:Lorenzato's early works were primarily explorations in welded metal and metal and concrete panels. In these years he produced a number of commissions in enameled steel, welded steel, painted steel, copper and brass, cutout steel and bronze. Alfred Frankenstein, art critic of The San Francisco Chronicle[3], stated “Ray Lorenzato...has a notable gift for producing objects that stand precisely at the border between architectural decoration and sculpture as independent art. His works can be construed successfully in either category.” Within this architectural context, his works explore ancient cultures, natural forms and commentaries on life's quandaries. In notes prepared for his 1957 show at the Palace of the Legion of Honor Lorenzato wrote: “I feel that the works of sculpture are needed in life to give complete fulfillment to architecture in its many phases. Architecture has gone through the “form follows function” stage. Today the trend is toward the utilization of material to bring warmth and life. Tomorrow, as in some ages of the past, the work of the sculptor must combine with that of the architect in order to achieve the ultimate in our buildings. Craftsmanship, understanding of materials and versatility of approach are necessary for the sculptor if this cycle is to be completed and the art forms are to lie once again integrated into everyday living.”In the 1960s and 70s he engaged in painting, wood sculpture, and metal work. From 1983 on Lorenzato created stone sculptures, primarily in marble. He explored contrasting surface texture, color, and form, using sweeping curves and rough sawn edges to illicit movement and tension in his pieces. When describing his work, Lorenzato wrote: “Since I am currently working exclusively in stone, the major portion of my forms most often consist of “Carrara white” marble combined with other colored stones, sometimes layered bands, other times in formed constructions. Some surfaces of the forms are cut, some are cut and carved to an eggshell finish, some are cut and worked to a polished finish. Portions of the forms are often broken, allowing the hardness and brittleness of the stone to contrast with the more deliberately-worked surfaces. I often combine a series of sawn lines with carefully broken edges, in order to achieve patterns of varying intensities. These intensities depend upon the closeness and the depth of the lines for their visual effects. I work with non-objective forms and allow the nature of the forms, their quality of surface finish, their direction, their location, and their relationship to the total sculpture to express the particular human feelings which I am dealing with in each work. Sometimes I go back into history and, by recreating archeological forms in a contemporary manner, deal with the universality of man's aesthetic expression.”Solo Exhibits:
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References1. ^United States Navy, Notice of Separation from U.S. Naval Service, NAVPERS-553 (REV 8-45), issued February 7, 1946, Honorable Discharge, Commanding Officer Keith Bowen 2. ^Bulletin of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Vol 15, Number 1, May 1957 3. ^This World, A look at the Local Galleries, San Francisco Chronicle, June 9, 1957 4. ^Original program, Art Commission of the City of San Francisco, April 221-May23, 1960 5. ^Exhibition program, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, January 18-February 23, 1964 6. ^Original program flyer, City of Pietrasanta, Italy, August 22- September 6, 1986 7. ^Original program, Estate 1988/ II Edizione, summer 1988 8. ^Original program flyer, Museo Dei Bozzetti, Peitrasanta, Italy, September 10-29, 1988 9. ^Original program, Richmond Art Center, October 28-November28, 1952 10. ^Original program portfolio, San Francisco Art Commission, September 24-27, 1953 11. ^Original program, Oakland Art Museum, June 1955 12. ^Original programs, San Francisco Art Association 13. ^Catalogue of the Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, March 24-April 24, 1960 14. ^Exhibition Catalog, City of Pietrasanta Di Sant”Agostino, September – October 5, 1986 15. ^Exhibition Catalog, Studio D’Arte, La Subbia, Viale C. Colombo, 36, Lido Di Camaiore (LU), Italy 16. ^Original program, Studio D’Arte La Subbia V.le Colombo, 36 –Lido di Camaiore (LU), Italy |
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