Rex Ray: A Portrait

A snapshot of San Francisco based queer artist Rex Ray, told through the objects he collected during his life. Ray was best known for his innovative pop aesthetic in fine and commercial art—on canvases, wood panels, album covers, paper, book jackets, murals, and rock and roll posters. His early designs include the first graphics for the San Francisco chapter of Act Up; many guerilla marketing flyers and posters for queer nightclubs; book covers for City Lights Books and HIGH RISK/Serpent’s Tail, and he later designed work for David Bowie, The Residents, Bill Graham Presents, DreamWorks, Levis, Frameline Festival, and Apple.