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About the Artwork
Sharony Ray’s paintings begin with a familiar urban sensation: catching the world in fragments—partial views framed by windows, curtains, and architecture. In her dreams, these windows “stitch” together across places she’s lived and traveled, collapsing memory, location, and light into a single interior/exterior moment. A visit to Sedona inspired this work in particular: imagining a window there in daylight—soft drapes inside, a crisp shadow cast across the room, and the warm desert glow beyond.
Ray’s process is intentionally iterative. She starts by designing multiple layouts digitally on her iPad, blocking in window structures and experimenting with hue, saturation, and value to establish a color field. Once the composition is finalized, she draws the design onto canvas and paints in oil—adjusting tonality, atmospheric conditions, and values as she goes. The final image is the result of that push-and-pull between digital color and painted reality, where light, shadow, and geometry settle into quiet balance.
About the Artist
Sharony Ray is an emerging abstract artist based in San Francisco. Her creative foundation began with traditional architectural forms and landscapes, shaped early on through the guidance of her mother—an established artist in India. As an engineer-artist, Ray has long been drawn to structure and the way shapes interact, a curiosity that continues to anchor her practice.
Over time, her work has evolved into minimalistic geometric abstraction, where color, line, and composition take center stage. Working primarily in oil, she uses the medium’s richness and depth to build layered paintings that invite contemplation and open-ended interpretation. After completing a painting studies course at the Rhode Island School of Design, Ray has continued developing her practice independently from her San Francisco studio. Her work has received Curator’s Choice Awards at the SFWA Gallery in San Francisco, and she has exhibited across the United States—including New York and California—as well as internationally.