Ray Bravo

I worked at NBC Universal as a computer graphics designer, where I had access to video equipment which I later used to make short personal art videos. In 1991, my video “Eye” (3 min.), aired on KCET in a program showing artist videos titled “Independent Eye”. The video was also shown at the 11th American Film Institute National Video Festival in 1991.

In 2008 at the J. Paul Getty Art Museum, “Eye” was part of HOTBED: VIDEO CULTIVATION BESIDE THE GETTY GARDEN – a large-scale outdoor video installation at the Getty Center. The two evening installation was to complement the exhibition “California Video”. It was projected on the exterior wall of the Getty.

In 2012, my animation “The Temptation of St. Anthony” (6 min.), based on an engraving of the same name by Martin Schongauer (ca. 1475), was shown at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in 2013. It also screened at the Torrance Art Museum in 2014.

In 2010, one of my drawings in the Long Beach Museum of Art permanent collection was included in the museum’s 60th anniversary celebration titled, “Stories from Our Legacy; Selected Acquisitions from 1970-2010.

My drawings, as well as my videos, use images symbolically to portray themes of science and religion that “answer” or make sense of the unanswerable questions posed by the mysteries of life.