Joy Ray : a mirror with breath like stone (2023)
“In Ray’s constant research posture, to continually look and never find is everything…the artist, the archive, the revenant, and the matrix are to be our eternal, unreliable witnesses.” —Shana Nys Dambrot | More
Joy Ray : The Golden Thread, BravinLee (2024)
“Nothing less than an expansive attempt to highlight the liveliest and most generous possibilities of a medium in full flower.” —Christian Viveros-Fauné | Press Release | ArtForum
Joy Ray : Spring/Break LA (2024)
Momentary Afterlife: a body of textile sculptures examining the woven nature of language and its ability to externalize interior and psychological states. | More
Joy Ray : Conjuring the Ghost Kingdom (2023)
“Joy Ray strings up Frankenstein postulations that cross bodies with story quilts and chunks of Rosetta Stone. The resultant stitched together forms hang as if suspended in an infernal meat locker; their messages are golems of uncertainty at the scales of both self and tribe. ” — Matt Morris | More
Joy Ray : Hambidge Residency (2024)
Earth Magick: it calls us back to the deepest place … the place that has always been there, will always be there … the still center … the place of first permission More