Ray Smith

Ray Smith, Before the Fall: The Architecture of Vulnerability @sb_cultural_arts February 19 - March 23, 2016 Curated by Aleida Garcia & Joaquin Castillo

A Fools End Saturday May 16th 2-10pm Please Join us for the closing of April Foolery Curated by Bruno Smith @ Ray Smith Studio 261 Bond st Brooklyn April Foolery gathers over one hundred artists into a circus of absurdity, satire, and unruly imagination. It embracese the aesthetics of the foolish: exaggerated forms, mischievous interventions, and a carnival of color and confusion. Yet beneath the laughter, something sharper lingers. In this exhibition, humor becomes a strategy—not an escape. The works on view exploit silliness as a form of mirror, using irony and exaggeration to expose contradictions embedded in contemporary life. What once might have been dismissed as parody now often feels indistinguishable from reality.

Hanging the Boone Rawn Bunny, 1986

"Mirror" by artist Ray Smith, 2021 🪞 "We exist in the parade of the incessant upkeep of our representations, a tautology of surfaces" Ray Smith Galería Estéreo #art #artist #artstagram #artgallery #mirror

APRIL FOOLERY Open Saturdays & Sundays 12-5pm Curated by Bruno Smith @ Ray Smith Studio 261 Bond st Brooklyn April Foolery gathers over one hundred artists into a circus of absurdity, satire, and unruly imagination. It embraces the aesthetics of the foolish: exaggerated forms, mischievous interventionsf, and a carnival of color and confusion. Yet beneath the laughter, something sharper lingers. In this exhibition, humor becomes a strategy—not an escape. The works on view exploit silliness as a form of mirror, using irony and exaggeration to expose contradictions embedded in contemporary life. What once might have been dismissed as parody now often feels indistinguishable from reality.

APRIL FOOLERY Open Saturdays & Sundays 12-5pm Curated by Bruno Smith @ Ray Smith Studio 261 Bond st Brooklyn April Foolery gathers over one hundred artists into a circus of absurdity, satire, and unruly imagination. It embraces the aesthetics of the foolish: exaggerated forms, mischievous interventions, and a carnival of color and confusion. Yet beneath the laughter, something sharper lingers. In this exhibition, humor becomes a strategy—not an escape. The works on view exploit silliness as a form of mirror, using irony and exaggeration to expose contradictions embedded in contemporary life. What once might have been dismissed as parody now often feels indistinguishable from reality.

APRIL FOOLERY On view through May 16th at Ray Smith Studio Brooklyn. Curated by Bruno Smith. Open Saturdays & Sundays Or DM to make an Appointment April Foolery gathers over one hundred artists into a circus of absurdity, satire, and unruly imagination. It embraces the aesthetics of the foolish: exaggerated forms, mischievous interventions, and a carnival of color and confusion. Yet beneath the laughter, something sharper lingers. In this exhibition, humor becomes a strategy—not an escape. The works on view exploit silliness as a form of mirror, using irony and exaggeration to expose contradictions embedded in contemporary life. What once might have been dismissed as parody now often feels indistinguishable from reality.

RAY 🌎 MUNDO Portrait of the artist Ray Smith in his studio in Gowanus, Brooklyn by @joshuacharow

Marcel Duchamp, MOMA @themuseumofmodernart

Portrait of the artist Ray Smith in his studio in Gowanus, Brooklyn. by @joshuacharow

Welcome to RAY 🌎 MUNDO! ​ The studio of painter Ray Smith is legendary as a hot spot of creative activity. Located in Gowanus, an industrial section of Brooklyn, what was once an old ice factory has served as a temporary atelier for artists, rehearsal space for bands, and a staging ground for art shows, dinners, parties, conversations, and various collective projects. The birthplace of much of Smith’s variegated production include his studios in both Cuernavaca, Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. Ray Smith was born in Brownsville, TX, raised in Mexico City, and emerged in the New York art scene in the 1980’s. He continues to produce exuberant paintings and sculptures characterized by an inimitable style and subject matter that reflect his bi-cultural American and Mexican heritage. Contorted and morphed figures recur throughout his work, in a hybrid that draws from his early studies of fresco painting with traditional practitioners in Mexico, and an indebtedness to Picasso, the Surrealists, and the politically daring Mexican muralists. Stay tuned… Portrait by @themichaelmundy

Visitamos la exposición “Antes de la caída” de Ray Smith en el Departamento Cultural de las Artes de San Benito, Texas. Un concepto que converge con la interacción entre lo familiar y lo desconocido. El arte traspasando contemporáneo continúa traspasando fronteras. ✨