On Friday, October 2, at 5 pm, join us for a one-on-one conversation with artist and Ray Guzman, live on YouTube or Facebook, hosted by Museum Director Bob Foster and Collections Manager Rand Hoppe. Ray will discuss his panoramic 10-foot-wide painting “Hoboken Tempest,” which goes on view in the Upper Gallery starting Oct.3 through Nov. 1.  Ray will also discuss his approach to painting and show some other paintings. Viewers can submit questions and comments during the event to the hosts. The livestreamed event will run from 5 to 6 pm online.

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See examples of Ray’s work and learn more about this fascinating artist at his website, www.rayguzmanstudios.com. 

Ray will be at the Museum on Saturday, Oct. 3, between 2 – 5 pm, for the opening reception for his exhibition, and will bring a few extra paintings for the opening. Visitors are permitted inside the Museum and the Upper Gallery in limited numbers, wearing masks and maintaining a safe distance. We ask everyone to be patient. The painting will be on view through Nov. 1.

Ray is an accomplished fine artist, skilled in multiple media, who earned a BFA on a full scholarship at the School of Visual Arts in the 1970s. He considers himself a working class artist, who has been successful as an entrepreneur bringing an artist’s sensibility and practical approach to create individualized signs that identify businesses all over Hoboken (and beyond) by his commercial sign company, Hoboken Signs. Before launching Hoboken Signs, Ray ran a commercial fine art company, Murals and Other Art Forms, that fulfilled commissions for trompe l’oeil and scenic paintings, faux wood grain and marble finishes, mosaics and other. For fun, he joins a group of outdoor muralists, the Walldogs.