Shray

At age fifteen, Shray discovered the Greek sculpture, Winged Victory, at the Louvre in Paris
and declared to her mother that she was to become a sculptor. She began her formal
classical training with a full scholarship at the Academy of Art in San Francisco and
continued her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute with a full grant. For eight years,
Shray mentored with Italy's Piero Mussi, founder of the internationally renowned Mussi
Artworks Foundry of Berkeley, California. Shray intensively studied the work of Rodin in
Paris and her simplicity of form has been compared that of Henry Moore, Rodin and
Brancusi. Over the last fifteen years Shray’s sculpture has received both national and
international recognition in the form of awards and commissions. Shray's bronze
sculpture is constantly evolving. In order to capture the human emotions she strives for,
Shray works full time in her Northern California studio. She shares her life with husband,
Neal, a writer and historian.