Ziggy Stardust 2002 by Rex Ray (Lithograph)

Description

Limited edition
Ziggy Stardust 2002
David Bowie lithograph by Rex Ray signed byboth the artist, Rex Ray (bottom, right), and David Bowie (bottom, left), andhand-written/numbered 80/2002 on the lower front in pencil. Handwritten on thebackside in pencil: 80/2002 DB/RR 1999. It was made in occasion of the 30thanniversary release date of David Bowie’s album
Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars
and it’s an Internet Agerepresentation of Ziggy Stardust, most career significant Bowie’s alter ego.
Conditions
This print was professionally framed
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Dimensionsare 11 inches wide by 17 inches high. Dimensions (framed) are 19.17 inches wideby 25.19 high. Mint condition.
About the artist
RexRay (Sept. 11, 1956—Feb. 9, 2015) was an American artist best known for hisinnovative pop aesthetic in fine and commercial art—on canvases, wood panels,album covers, paper, book jackets, murals, and rock and roll posters.
Born in Landstuhl, Germany in 1956, MichaelPatterson was raised in Colorado Springs. Before moving to San Francisco in1981, Patterson, inspired by Andy Warhol, adopted the moniker Rex Ray. Heattended the San Francisco Art Institute where he studied with Sam Tchakalian,Kathy Acker, and Angela Davis, and received his BFA in 1989. He became a majorforce in the Bay Area’s art, literary, and activist communities.
Ray was one of the first artists to useMac-based technologies in the creative process to generate art and graphics.His early designs include: the first graphics for the San Francisco chapter ofAct Up; many guerilla marketing flyers and posters for queer nightclubs; andnumerous book covers for City Lights Books and HIGH RISK/Serpent’s Tail. Hisimpressive client roster in the music, fashion, entertainment, and designindustries, includes David Bowie, The Residents, Bill Graham Presents,DreamWorks, Levis, Neiman Marcus, Sony Music, Warner Brothers, and Apple. RexRay designs have been licensed and produced as distinctive imagery on scarves,carpets, ceramics, wristwatches, surfboards, and even on a Mini Cooper.
Ray’swork has been included in exhibitions at the Akron Art Museum; Berkeley ArtMuseum; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; MCA DENVER; McNay Art Museum, SanAntonio; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; San Jose Museum of Art; and YerbaBuena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
Trivia
David Bowie and Rex Ray are both dead.