{"id":133425,"date":"2019-02-07T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=133425"},"modified":"2019-02-07T10:12:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T15:12:03","slug":"eleanor-rays-minimalist-painted-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/07\/eleanor-rays-minimalist-painted-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleanor Ray\u2019s Minimalist Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_133427\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr1_eray052-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133427\" class=\"size-full wp-image-133427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr1_eray052-large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"879\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr1_eray052-large.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr1_eray052-large-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr1_eray052-large-768x675.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-133427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eleanor Ray, <em>Marfa Window<\/em>, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In Marfa, Texas, three hours into the desert from El Paso, the artist Donald Judd installed a hundred geometric sculptures in two disused artillery sheds. Arrayed in a grid are boxes made of milled aluminum, all the same size but each uniquely composed with different patterns of segmented space. Through the sheds\u2019 massive windows, sun and blue sky and yellowed scrub reflect on the aluminum at shifting angles. As you walk through the space, it becomes hard to tell whether you\u2019re looking at a solid sheet of metal or only the illusion of one, created by light.<\/p>\n<p>Photography is banned in the Marfa installation; only a few sanctioned images exist. Photos could never capture the experience of being surrounded by the boxes because pictures flatten the experience, turning it into a shallow singular impression\u2014the Instagram version\u2014rather than the active process of perception that Judd sought. Instead of photos, the young Brooklyn-based artist <a href=\"http:\/\/eleanorkray.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eleanor Ray<\/a> has depicted the boxes in a series of hardcover-book-size paintings that preserve the ambiguity. In Ray\u2019s luminous oils, the walls, windows, and metal alike dissolve into thin brushstrokes that hover between landscape and abstraction. It\u2019s up to the viewer to decide what\u2019s what.<\/p>\n<p>The Marfa paintings are part of Ray\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/nicellebeauchene.com\/exhibitions\/eleanor-ray\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0exhibition at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery in SoHo<\/a>, on view through February 10. Since 2012, Ray has been drawn to this kind of ekphrastic painting, representing works of art while also capturing the peculiar sensation of looking at an art object, part sensory and part intellectual. Over time, she\u2019s gathered a specific canon of artists who have engaged with the act of seeing in space, some of them mid-century Minimalists and others much older. Ray has painted Judd\u2019s loft in SoHo, Agnes Martin\u2019s house in New Mexico, Piet Mondrian\u2019s geometric canvases hanging in a geometric gallery, and the early Renaissance painter Fra Angelico\u2019s crisp frescoes in San Marco.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Minimalism (a label that Judd and most of the other artists constantly complained about) never adhered to a monolithic austere style; rather, it was about creating work that did not depend on external reference points to communicate its message. As Frank Stella once put it, \u201cWhat you see is what you see.\u201d Ray\u2019s paintings have a similar effect. They push the viewer into a new way of seeing without the need for massive scale or industrial materials. \u201cI like the idea that the small painting is kind of monumental rather than miniature\u2014that it can contain a bigger space, like the imaginative space of a book,\u201d she said in a <a href=\"http:\/\/figureground.org\/a-conversation-with-eleanor-ray\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2015 interview<\/a> with <em>Figure\/Ground<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Ray\u2019s interest in creating linear order may be classical and cold, but her colors are lush, as if it were always the golden hour. They bring to mind domestic painters like Pierre Bonnard or Giorgio Morandi, two obsessives who both lent an epic cast to the quotidian. The sensation of looking at Ray\u2019s work is pleasurably transient, like recalling a nostalgic memory or the traces of an artwork you saw long ago.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_133428\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr2_eray056-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133428\" class=\"size-full wp-image-133428\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr2_eray056-large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr2_eray056-large.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr2_eray056-large-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr2_eray056-large-768x637.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-133428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Marfa Exterior<\/em>, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_133429\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr3_eray082-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133429\" class=\"size-full wp-image-133429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr3_eray082-large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr3_eray082-large.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr3_eray082-large-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr3_eray082-large-768x612.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-133429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Marfa Window<\/em>, 2017. Courtesy of the artist and Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_133430\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr4_eray072-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133430\" class=\"size-full wp-image-133430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr4_eray072-large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr4_eray072-large.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr4_eray072-large-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr4_eray072-large-768x607.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-133430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Galisteo (Agnes Martin)<\/em>, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_133431\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr5_eray046-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133431\" class=\"size-full wp-image-133431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr5_eray046-large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr5_eray046-large.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr5_eray046-large-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr5_eray046-large-768x595.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-133431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>San Marco (Fra Angelico)<\/em>, 2016. Courtesy of the artist and Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_133432\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr6_eray046-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133432\" class=\"size-full wp-image-133432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr6_eray046-large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr6_eray046-large.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr6_eray046-large-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr6_eray046-large-768x687.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-133432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Assisi (Saint Francis and the Birds)<\/em>, 2016. Courtesy of the artist and Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_133433\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr7_eray073-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-133433\" class=\"size-full wp-image-133433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr7_eray073-large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr7_eray073-large.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr7_eray073-large-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tpr7_eray073-large-768x551.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-133433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>New Mexico Field<\/em>, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Kyle Chayka is a writer living in Brooklyn. His first book, on Minimalism, will be published by Bloomsbury this year.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleanor Ray\u2019s interest in creating linear order may be classical and cold, but her colors are lush, as if it were always the golden hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2384],"tags":[35,4541,49012,10716,4540,6509,67,914],"class_list":["post-133425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-look","tag-art","tag-donald-judd","tag-eleanor-ray","tag-look-3","tag-marfa","tag-minimalism","tag-painting","tag-soho"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Eleanor Ray\u2019s Minimalist Memories by Kyle 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