Michael Ray Charles - The Side Dish - hand signed Artist Plate, 1996

Michael Ray Charles - The Side Dish - hand signed Artist Plate, 1996

Limited Edition porcelain plate produced exclusively for the Blaffer Museum, University of Houston, Texas by Swid Powell Inc.
The plate bears the artists signature fired onto the underside and the front
It also has the artists ink signature in red marker
Numbered 87/250 on the underside

Michael Ray Charles biography
Born in 1967 in Lafayette, Louisiana, USA, Michael Ray Charles currently lives and works in Austin, Texas, USA, and Gent, Belgium. He spent most of his youth in California and Louisiana. He studied design and advertising for three and a half years before being awarded a BFA degree in 1989. He went on to obtain an MFA in 1993 at the University of Houston, Texas, before teaching at the University of Texas in Austin. In 2014, he joined the faculty of the University of Houston. His work features in a wide range of public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Arizona State University Art Museum and San Antonio Museum of Art in Texas.
-Courtesy Templon