Lynda Ray

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Lynda Ray has been working with encaustic since its re-emergence 1986. She also works in a variety of other media.  Originally from Massachusetts where she received my BFA from Mass. College of Art and Design she then attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, where she had the honor of studying with Joseph Campbell and Agnes Martin. Shortly after, in 1989, she was the recipient of the Mass. Artist Foundation Fellowship in Sculpture and was a Finalist in Painting. Later she moved to NYC where she exhibited extensively including OK Harris Gallery and AIR. Her work and interview with Julie Karabenick are posted on the international forum Geoform.net. Work has been included in The Art of Encaustic Painting by Joanne Mattera. She has exhibited my work and held workshops throughout the United States including exhibitions in Massachusetts including; Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA. Curator: Michael Giaquinto which has traveled to The Hunterdon Museum in Clinton, NJ.

Lynda Ray

EDUCATION

VCU Post-baccalaureate studies Fine Arts
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, BFA with honors, Painting Major

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

2022
Teeny Tiny Trifecta, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA Rawls Art Museum, Courtland, VA.
Viewing Room, Page Bond Gallery.com
[Work], Visual Art Center, Richmond, VA
Touchstone Instructor Exhibition, Farmington, PA Next Level, Cultural arts Center at Glen Allen, VA

2021
Touchstone Instructor Exhibition, PA
Arrowmont Instructor Exhibition, TN [WORK], VA, www.visarts.org
Next Level, www.artsglenallen.com
One in a Year, NYC, www.thepain2ngcenter.org

2020
RGB: C o l o r. https://joannematteraartblog.blogspot.com/2020/08/color- glorious-rgb.html
Space Gallery. https://spacegallery.org/artist/lynda-ray/
Postcard Show, Castle Hill, Truro, MA
Special Delivery, Ruby Projects, Fairfax, VA
20 20 25 Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA
Pushing Boundaries. https://www.castlehill.org/virtual-show-pushing- boundaries
Next Level, The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, VA

2019
Waxing Lyrical, Space Gallery, Denver, CO
8th Annual Encaustic Exhbition, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL
Folded Time, Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA,
Strictly Painting 12, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA, [Work], the Visual Arts Center of Richmond, VA
Anything But Flat, Castle Hill Main Gallery, Truro, MA. Juror: Joanne Mattera.

2019 Instructor Exhibition, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg,TN
Momentum Space Gallery Annex Grand Opening ,Denver, CO Melting Point: Contemporary Encaustic Work, McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, VA. Curated by Giselle Gautreau.
Next Level, Arts and Cultural Center at Glen Allen, VA.
Juried Exhibition, Rawls Museum Arts , Courtland, VA. Third Place Award.

2018
Featured Artist: 7th Annual Juried Encaustic Exhibition. Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL
CultureWorks Grant Program 2018 recipient
Constellations, Dorothy Cochran and Lynda Ray, Julie Heller Gallery, Provincetown, MA
[work], The Visual Arts Center of Richmond, VA.
The Blues, Adam Peck Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Stripes, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Within Reach 2018, Artspace Gallery, Richmond, VA

2017
The Best of 2017, Space Gallery, Denver, CO
Square Foot 5, Projects Gallery, Aqua Art Miami
Invitational, 2017, 2015 ,2013 www.projectsgallery.com
6th Annual Miniature Show, Gallery Flux, Ashland, VA www.galleryflux.com Eighteenth Annual 5×7 Show, Kleinert/JamesCenter for the Arts.www.woodstockguild.org Thinksmall9,
Artspace Gallery, Richmond, VA Oct 27-Dec 17. Virginian Artists 2017, Rawls Museum, Courtland, VA
[work], The Visual Arts Center of Richmond, VA.
Lynda Ray: Color Merge, The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen, VA Arrowmont Instructor Exhibition, The Sandra J. Blain Gallery, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts,
Gatlinburg, TN
Depth Perception, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA curators: Joanne Mattera & Cherie Mittenthal
Black Tie (optional), Adam Peck Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Contempo, Flux Gallery, Ashland, VA
Next Level, The Cultural Arts Center, Glen Allen, VA
Within Reach 2017, Artspace Gallery, Richmond, VA

2016
Square Foot Aqua Art Fair Miami, Projects Gallery, Miami, FL
The Best of 2016, Space Gallery, Denver, CO
Seventeenth Annual 5×7 Show, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
5th Annual Miniature Show, Gallery Flux, Ashland, VA
Hotel Art Fair, Provincetown Inn, Provincetown, MA in conjunction with the 10th International Encaustic Conference
Lynda Ray: Shapes and Shadows, Williamsburg Contemporary Art Center, Williamsburg, VA (solo)
Within Reach 2016 Artspace Gallery, Richmond, VA
[work], The Visual Arts Center of Richmond, VA

2015
Sixteenth Annual 5×7 Show, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
4th Annual Miniature Show, Gallery Flux, Ashland, VA
Square Foot Art Basel Miami,Projects Gallery, Miami, FL
Thinksmall, Artspace Gallery, Richmond, VA
Pattern | Geometric – Organic, Space Gallery, Denver, CO
On the Brink, Ellsworth Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Attention: Intention, Old View National Bank, Marshall, VA
Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA
Nature as Muse, Steamboat Springs Art Council, Steamboat Springs, CO

2014
3rd Annual Miniature Show, Flux Gallery, Ashland, VA
Summer Selections, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic, Traveling Group Exhibition, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA
Subliminal, The Castle Hill Gallery, Truro, MA, Juror: Dan Addington
Metro Show, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, NYC
H.Scott November Gallery, Westminster Canterbery, Richmond, VA

2013
Seven, Castle Hill Gallery, Truto, MA, Juror: Shawn Hill
Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA
Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic, Traveling Group Exhibition, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, Curator: Michael Giaquinto
The Elephant in the Room, Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA, Curators: Linda Cordner and James Hull

2012
Winter Solstice, Selby Fleetwood Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Capital One, Richmond, VA
Rawls Museum Arts, Courtland, VA, Juror: Marcy Rosenblat The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA
New Waves, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA Slant wall Gallery, The Cultural Arts Center, Glen Allen, VA
Painting: Color Dominates, Evans Encaustics, Sonoma, CA (online) Art and Music, Nancy Natale, E. Hampton, MA (online)
Gallery Flux, Ashland, VA

SELECT AWARDS:

2022
3rd place award, Rawls Art Museum, Courtland, VA

2020
CultureWorks Covid-19 Arts &Culture Relief Fund Grant

2018
CultureWorks Artist Grant 2017 Scholarship to the 11th International Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, MA

2013
Director’s Award, Seven, 7th International Encaustic Conference, Provincetown, MA

2008
Residency, Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Woodstock, NY

2002
Residency, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM

2001
The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, Inc. artist grant

1993
Residency, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE

1989
Massachusetts Artist Fellowship Program, Fellowship in Sculpture

1989
Massachusetts Artist Fellowship Program, Finalist in Painting

1988
Residency Vermont Studio Colony, Johnson, VT

1987
Art School Association Trust Fund Award, MA

1985
Massachusetts Arts Lottery Education: VCU Post-baccalaureate studies Fine Arts

1987
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

1987
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, BFA with honors, Painting Major.

SELECT COLLECTIONS

Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJCapital One
Bisys Group Inc.
Boston Public Library
Medical College of Virginia
Pfizer, Inc.
US West Communications

My paintings are containers of time with overlapping transparent layers of color forming a whole. Organic, geometric shapes and space vie for dominance. My process sometimes produces unexpected contours like the curve of the macrocosm, which is bent by mass and energy.