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Ray Lorenzato Ray Lorenzato (born Peter Raymond Lorenzato, (March 3, 1924 – November 10, 2006) was an American born abstract expressionist sculptor and art educator who gained prominence in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s and exhibited for nearly 50 years. He was acclaimed for his early works of welded metals and concrete reliefs and his later works primarily in marble. Beginning in the early 1980s he spent half of each year in Italy, carving in the studios of Carrara and Pietrasanta.  The other half of each year he resided in San Mateo, California and worked on finishing pieces shipped from Italy.