#Charles Ray

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Charles Ray: Untitled (1973)

[woundgallery]

Charles Ray, Untitled, 1973, black and white photograph, 27 × 40 inches inches. Courtesy of Feature.

[collectionarchive]

by Charles Ray

source: collectionarchive.tumblr.com

[eucanthos]

Charles Ray (US, 1953)

Plank Piece I and II 1973. Two gelatin silver prints, printed 1992

The slanted board recalls artist John McCracken’s “planks” of the 1960s. By including his body as an element within the work, Ray approaches sculpture not as a static object but as an activity. The work is humorous and disarming, yet also decidedly devoted to sculptural principles. Ray studies the forces of weight, gravity, and the intrinsic ability of the plank to support his mass without breaking.

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/46150

https://www.thebroad.org/art/charles-ray/plank-piece-i-ii

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[couldtheyescortelliewilliams]

[cc-kk-yy]

an longtime favorite of mine

“Some critics have read Ray’s gesture in Plank Piece as a similar comment on the dominance of minimalism in the 1960s (see, for example, Nittive and Ferguson 1994, p.17). As the geometric form pins the artist to the wall, physical restriction comes to represent aesthetic restraint. In this reading Plank Piece acts as a bodily intervention in minimalism.”

[luckyacid]

Charles Ray Future Fragment on a Solid Base, 2011 Solid aluminum 82¾ × 48 × 36 in

[paintingafterpainting]

Charles Ray

A copy of ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief (2017), machined aluminum

[postcard-from-the-past]

Corinne Griffith and Charles Ray on a vintage postcard

[zauddu]

Charles Ray perfomer 1973

[disease]

“REVOLUTION COUNTER REVOLUTION” CHARLES RAY // 1990 [carved wood, steel, fabric and mechanical elements | 115 x 164 x 164″]

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Kristen Justesen and Charles Ray

[gregdotorg]

"If ghosts existed, would they haunt the actual substance of a place or object? Or would the object’s topology, geometry, or shape be enough to hold the ghost? Unpainted Sculpture began as an investigation into the nature of a haunting. I studied many automobiles that were involved in fatal collisions. Eventually I chose a car that I felt held the presence of its dead driver."

Charles Ray made Unpainted Sculpture in 1997, a monochrome light grey (primer) replica in fiberglass of a wrecked Pontiac Grand Am. It's in the collection of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, but it's his thing about ghosts that reminded me of it.

[eucanthos]

Charles Ray (US, 1953)

Boy with frog, 2009. Painted stainless steel 2,43 m. Photograph by Robertz 

[monumental size, yet minimal respect to "inferior" otherness]

https://andreasworldstage.com/charles-ray-retrospektive-am-met/

https://www.vulture.com/2013/05/saltz-venice-is-losing-a-great-artwork.html

https://www.ft.com/content/60354f52-3036-43a5-9905-5743d2eca640

[mentaltimetraveller]

View of “Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept,” 2022, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. 

From left: Charles Ray, Ninety-Nine Bottles of Beer on the Wall, 2021; Charles Ray, Burger, 2021; Charles Ray, Jeff, 2021. Photo: Ron Amstutz