Eleanor Ray is an American painter based in Brooklyn,

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. She was born in 1987 in Gainesville, Florida.

Life and work

Ray graduated from the

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with a

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in 2012 and from

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with a Bachelor of Arts in 2009. Her work depicts landscapes and interiors in small-scale paintings. She has painted art-historically significant sites, including Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty" at the Great Salt Lake in Utah, Donald Judd's installations in Marfa, Texas, and frescoed interiors in

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, Florence, and Padua, Italy. Writing about her work in 2019, the critic Kyle Chayka compared it to Giorgio Morandi and

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. Ray believes that the smaller scale of the paintings allows for more control and intimacy. Her paintings are based on experiences visiting specific places. Ray has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting and residencies at Yaddo, Ucross Foundation, and Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence at Hollins University.

Exhibitions

* Eleanor D. Wilson Museum of Art at Hollins University * Nicelle Beauchene Gallery; New York, NY (2019) (2021) * Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects; New York City, NY * College of William & Mary; Williamsburg, VA * The Center for Contemporary Art; Bedminster, NJ * Rothschild Fine Art; Tel Aviv * American Academy of Arts and Letters; New York * Interstate Projects; Brooklyn, NY *

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; Brooklyn, NY * Howard's; Athens, GA * The Landing; Los Angeles, CA

Collections

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, Sydney, Australia

References

External links

Official website
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