{{short description|American artist}}
'''Eleanor Ray''' is an American painter based in Brooklyn, New York.<ref name="conversation">{{Cite web |last=Zabicki |first=Gwendolyn |date=16 April 2016 |title=A Conversation with Eleanor Ray |url=http://figureground.org/a-conversation-with-eleanor-ray/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929015447/https://figureground.org/a-conversation-with-eleanor-ray/ |archive-date=29 September 2022 |access-date=4 March 2020 |website=Figure/Ground |language=en-US}}</ref> She was born in 1987 in Gainesville, Florida.
== Life and work == Ray graduated from the New York Studio School with a Master of Fine Arts in 2012 and from Amherst College with a Bachelor of Arts in 2009.<ref name="conversation"/>
Her work depicts landscapes and interiors in small-scale paintings.<ref name="exhibitions">{{Cite web |date=2019 |title=Eleanor Ray |url=https://nicellebeauchene.com/exhibitions/eleanor-ray/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005063707/https://nicellebeauchene.com/exhibitions/eleanor-ray/ |archive-date=5 October 2022 |access-date=4 March 2020 |website=Nicelle Beauchene Gallery |language=en-US}}</ref> 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 Assisi, Florence, and Padua, Italy.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Fateman |first=Johanna |title=Goings On About Town: Eleanor Ray |url=https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/eleanor-ray |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221020130107/https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/eleanor-ray |archive-date=20 October 2022 |access-date=16 February 2021 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en}}</ref> Writing about her work in 2019, the critic Kyle Chayka compared it to Giorgio Morandi and Pierre Bonnard.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chayka |first=Kyle |date=7 February 2019 |title=Eleanor Ray's Minimalist Memories |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/02/07/eleanor-rays-minimalist-painted-memories/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205121625/https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/02/07/eleanor-rays-minimalist-painted-memories/ |archive-date=5 December 2022 |access-date=16 February 2021 |website=The Paris Review |language=en}}</ref> Ray believes that the smaller scale of the paintings allows for more control and intimacy.<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 August 2012 |title=A.i.R Reflections: Eleanor Ray |url=https://airbyrcliffe.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/works-in-progress-4-eleanor-ray/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230212042756/https://airbyrcliffe.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/works-in-progress-4-eleanor-ray/ |archive-date=12 February 2023 |access-date=4 March 2020 |website=Artist-in-Residence at the Byrdcliffe |publisher=Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild |language=en}}</ref> Her paintings are based on experiences visiting specific places.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Yau |first=John |date=13 January 2019 |title=Eleanor Ray's Sacred Spaces |url=https://hyperallergic.com/478880/eleanor-ray-nicelle-beauchene-gallery/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221020130140/https://hyperallergic.com/478880/eleanor-ray-nicelle-beauchene-gallery/ |archive-date=20 October 2022 |access-date=4 March 2020 |website=Hyperallergic |language=en-US}}</ref>
Ray has been the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting<ref>{{Cite web |date=22 July 2015 |title=NYFA Announces Recipients and Finalists for 2015 Artists' Fellowship Program |url=https://www.nyfa.org/nyfa-announces-recipients-and-finalists-for-2015-124763903283 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706172147/https://www.nyfa.org/nyfa-announces-recipients-and-finalists-for-2015-124763903283 |archive-date=6 July 2022 |access-date=16 February 2021 |website=New York Foundation for the Arts |language=en}}</ref> and residencies at Yaddo,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019 |title=Yaddo Annual Report 2019 |url=https://www.yaddo.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Yaddo_AnnualReport2019_FNL_UPD.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203203313/https://www.yaddo.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Yaddo_AnnualReport2019_FNL_UPD.pdf |archive-date=3 February 2023 |access-date=16 February 2021 |website=Yaddo |pages=8; 21 |language=en}}</ref> Ucross Foundation,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Visual Arts Alumni |url=https://www.ucrossfoundation.org/visual-arts.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221109192604/https://www.ucrossfoundation.org/visual-arts.html |archive-date=9 November 2022 |access-date=16 February 2021 |website=Ucross Foundation |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=3 August 2020 |title=Hollins Announces Eleanor Ray as 2021 Niederer Artist-In-Residence |url=https://www.hollins.edu/news/hollins-announces-eleanor-ray-as-2021-niederer-artist-in-residence/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221202022459/https://www.hollins.edu/news/hollins-announces-eleanor-ray-as-2021-niederer-artist-in-residence/ |archive-date=2 December 2022 |access-date=12 February 2023 |website=Hollins University}}</ref> and Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence at Hollins University.
== Exhibitions == * Eleanor D. Wilson Museum of Art at Hollins University<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021 |title=Eleanor Ray: 2021 Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence |url=https://wilsonmuseum.wixsite.com/eleanor-ray |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230114202533/https://wilsonmuseum.wixsite.com/eleanor-ray |archive-date=14 January 2023 |access-date=16 February 2021 |website=Eleanor D. Wilson Museum |language=en}}</ref> * Nicelle Beauchene Gallery; New York, NY (2019)<ref name="exhibitions" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Shea |first=Andrew L. |date=23 January 2019 |title=Eleanor Ray at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery by Andrew L. Shea |url=https://newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/eleanor-ray-at-nicelle-beauchene-gallery-10385 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221204215328/https://newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/eleanor-ray-at-nicelle-beauchene-gallery-10385 |archive-date=4 December 2022 |access-date=12 February 2023 |website=The New Criterion |language=en}}</ref> (2021)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chayka |first=Kyle |date=12 May 2021 |title=Eleanor Ray Shows Painting's Power to Capture the Passage of Time in Space |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/eleanor-ray-painting-interview-1234592640/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221202052039/https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/eleanor-ray-painting-interview-1234592640/ |archive-date=2 December 2022 |access-date=12 February 2023 |website=ARTnews |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Scott |first=Andrea K. |date=2021 |title=Goings on about Town: Eleanor Ray |url=https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/eleanor-ray-2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004005203/https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/eleanor-ray-2021 |archive-date=4 October 2022 |access-date=12 February 2023 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Maziar |first=Paul |date=18 May 2021 |title=Spirit of Inquiry: Eleanor Ray Interviewed |url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/spirit-of-inquiry-eleanor-ray-interviewed/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220202023306/https://bombmagazine.org/articles/spirit-of-inquiry-eleanor-ray-interviewed/ |archive-date=2 February 2022 |access-date=12 February 2023 |website=BOMB Magazine}}</ref> * Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects; New York City, NY<ref name="conversation"/> * College of William & Mary; Williamsburg, VA<ref name="conversation"/> * The Center for Contemporary Art; Bedminster, NJ<ref name="conversation"/> * Rothschild Fine Art; Tel Aviv<ref name="conversation"/> * American Academy of Arts and Letters; New York<ref name="conversation"/> * Interstate Projects; Brooklyn, NY<ref name="conversation"/> * BRIC House; Brooklyn, NY<ref name="conversation"/> * Howard's; Athens, GA<ref name="exhibitions"/> * The Landing; Los Angeles, CA<ref name="exhibitions"/>
== Collections == * Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia<ref>{{Cite web |title=Works by Eleanor Ray |url=https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/?artist_id=ray-eleanor |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230212084800/https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/?artist_id=ray-eleanor |archive-date=12 February 2023 |access-date=16 February 2021 |website=Art Gallery of New South Wales |language=en}}</ref>
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== External links == *[http://eleanorkray.com/ Official website]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ray, Eleanor}} Category:Artists from Brooklyn Category:People from Gainesville, Florida Category:New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture alumni Category:Amherst College alumni Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people)