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Joe Ray: I Can Hear The Scream

Past exhibition
June 22 - August 30, 2020
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Joe Ray Blue Spade, 1993 Acrylic on canvas and cotton fabric, vinyl record on wood 72 x 96 inches 182.9 x 243.8 cm
Joe Ray
Blue Spade, 1993
Acrylic on canvas and cotton fabric, vinyl record on wood
72 x 96 inches
182.9 x 243.8 cm

We are pleased to announce Joe Ray: I Can Hear The Scream, a historical solo exhibition of painting, sculpture, and photographs by the Los Angeles-based artist.

 

Joe Ray is a Louisiana native who has lived and worked in Los Angeles since 1963. Ray is a unique voice in the L.A. art community, a man who coexisted in many communities, from Light and Space, to Ferus, to the community around Cal Arts in the early 1970s. This alchemy of associations and interests fed an artistic practice that was promiscuous in its material pursuits and always in dialogue with the cutting edge of artmaking in Los Angeles. 

 

In Ray’s second solo exhibition at Diane Rosenstein Gallery, following a 2017 survey of his work, Ray presents a body of work which reflects directly on a particular traumatic cultural moment in the history of Los Angeles, the horrific assault of Rodney King, the acquittal of the police officers guilty of the beating, and the protests and civil unrest that followed in the 1992 L.A. Riots. Most of the suite of paintings, sculptures, and photographs on view were completed in 1993, and a number of the works were shown originally in 2014’s Prospect.3: Notes for Now, curated by Franklin Sirmans.

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Works
  • Joe Ray US, 1993 Acrylic on canvas and cotton fabric, wood
    Joe Ray
    US, 1993
    Acrylic on canvas and cotton fabric, wood
  • Joe Ray Blue Spade, 1993 Acrylic on canvas and cotton fabric, vinyl record on wood
    Joe Ray
    Blue Spade, 1993
    Acrylic on canvas and cotton fabric, vinyl record on wood
  • Joe Ray Super Continent, 1993 Acrylic on canvas, cotton fabric, wood Box with bullwhip, sheet, chain, paint, rope, wood, metal, glass
    Joe Ray
    Super Continent, 1993
    Acrylic on canvas, cotton fabric, wood
    Box with bullwhip, sheet, chain, paint, rope, wood, metal, glass
  • Joe Ray Block or the Plank, 2011 Chromogenic photograph and wood
    Joe Ray
    Block or the Plank, 2011
    Chromogenic photograph and wood
Installation Views
  • Install View 20200610 Dianerosenstein8919
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  • Install View 20200610 Dianerosenstein8916
  • Install View 20200610 Dianerosenstein8921
  • Install View 20200610 Dianerosenstein8924
News
  • Joe Ray painting is acquired by Los Angeles County Museum of Art

    Joe Ray painting is acquired by Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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