Raymond Pahler
Ray Pahler, a Pittsburgh, PA. native, began studying Art at the Carnegie Institute. He earned a BS Chemical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh with a minor in Art. While at Pitt he studied sculpture in wood, stone and metal under Virgil Cantini. His first publication was entitled "Art and the Engineer", which was published in CHEMICAL ENGINEERING magazine. While serving in the US Navy, he earned an ME Mechanical Engineering at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. While living in Mt. Vernon, IN in 1982, he began publishing limited editions of his prints, served on the Board of Directors of the Evansville Artists Guild, and studied Watercolor with Jerry Baum. A recipient of numerous awards from juried shows, he is represented in many private collections. A Denton Co. resident since 1994, he currently volunteers as an instructor in Art and Art related subjects in UNT’s Osher Life Long Learning Institute. He works in any medium that will express his passion for the exploration of the “Intersection of Art and Technology”.
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"When I look back at that first magazine article I wrote for CHEMICAL ENGINEERING in 1971 entitled Art and the Engineer, I was defining the direction of my art, that being the exploration of the interface between Art and Technology, however, it is only with the clarity of hindsight that I can look back and see how consistently I have pursued that theme. I have always had a love for Art and Technology, which at first might seem diametrically opposed, but they are not. There can be artistic beauty in technical subjects, whether that be an architecturally interesting building, or a fiery sunset behind the statuesque columns and array of piping in a chemical plant, or the details in a botanical illustration. It has been my goal to bring this aspect of art to light."
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