Ray Zarnowitz

Target, 2021 Oil on linen 18x15 inches via @platformart_com and @turleygallery

I’m very happy to have my first LP out today on @minimumtablestacks Written and recorded in winter of 2022, Material Pop Volume One is available as an LP with poster and sticker inserts as well as via download, link is in the profile. Thank you so much to @minimumtablestacks , and to the generous writing from @home_blitz @starr.suites @andyboay “After a couple of self released cassettes and a stint as a full band live concern featuring some of the cream of NYC punk, Ray Zarnowitz's Rat Henry project has gestated and bloomed into its most complete form with Material Pop Vol. 1. This record weaves lessons well-learned from the modern American noise underground, the loamy heritage of UK DIY, and punk as lifestyle/vocation into a strikingly personal statement. The comparisons that will form in the mind of the astute listener - This Degenerate Little Town as a mail collaboration between Jim Shepard and Storm Bugs, Afterbathinginturpentine with cutting social critique in the place of dilaudid fog, a production of Bad Lieutenant held on the Street Level Studios soundstage with Pierpaolo Zoppo heading the AV crew - are rendered secondary in light of Ray's vision. Material Pop Vol. 1 wields genuinely idiosyncratic songcraft and rock and roll joie de vivre like corrosive agents, eating away at the tape loop sediment encasing its songs, and at the indignities of modern urban existence.” - Daniel Dimaggio, Home Blitz

𝐑𝐚𝐲𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐙𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐳 𝘌𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 May 25–July 7, 2024 Ether is often, colloquially, thought of as a certain intangible, amorphous quality; something that we understand is without quite knowing what it is. In his first exhibition with Turley Gallery, Raymond Zarnowitz presents a series of paintings with a wide vocabulary of mark making, and absurdist, though generalized subjects. While this body of work has a tangible presence on this plane, each piece seems to come from a world all its own. Coming out of drawing there has always been an interest for me in the depiction of the specific to the general in painting, where the simplification of forms cooks down multiple drawings or ideas towards a single sensation, so that the paintings transcribe a feeling without directly conveying their content. Working over the past fourteen years has led to a way of using paint, building patches of color, scraping away to reveal structures, with lines coming towards the end to carve forms, which hopefully has some meaning in and of itself. Rarely a painting might resolve in a single day, more often they come together over months or years until they look as if things happened all at once, or are just beginning. - Raymond Zarnowitz Image: Raymond Zarnowitz, untitled, 2022, oil on linen, 13.25 x 11 x 1 in Photography @spencerhousestudio

Chaos, 2024 oil on linen 15x12” on view in “Ether” @turleygallery through July 7

Images from “Ether” @turleygallery up through July 7th photography @spencerhousestudio

𝐑𝐚𝐲𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐙𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐳 𝘌𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 May 25–July 7, 2024 Opening reception 🥂 Saturday, May 25, 3–5 PM Ether is often, colloquially, thought of as a certain intangible, amorphous quality; something that we understand is without quite knowing what it is. In his first exhibition with Turley Gallery, Raymond Zarnowitz presents a series of paintings with a wide vocabulary of mark making, and absurdist, though generalized subjects. While this body of work has a tangible presence on this plane, each piece seems to come from a world all its own. Image: Raymond Zarnowitz, 𝘚𝘭𝘶𝘨 𝘛𝘦𝘴𝘵, 2023, oil on linen, 18 x 15 x 1.5 in Photography @spencerhousestudio #rayzarnowitz #turleygallery

Raymond Zarnowitz “Ether” opens this Saturday, May 25th 3-5pm at Turley Gallery Hudson, NY @turleygallery Link to images in bio pictured: Ether, 2021 Oil on linen, 25”x17”

𝐑𝐚𝐲𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐙𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐳 𝘌𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 May 25–July 7, 2024 Opening reception 🥂 Saturday, May 25, 3–5 PM Ether is often, colloquially, thought of as a certain intangible, amorphous quality; something that we understand is without quite knowing what it is. In his first exhibition with Turley Gallery, Raymond Zarnowitz presents a series of paintings with a wide vocabulary of mark making, and absurdist, though generalized subjects. While this body of work has a tangible presence on this plane, each piece seems to come from a world all its own. Coming out of drawing there has always been an interest for me in the depiction of the specific to the general in painting, where the simplification of forms cooks down multiple drawings or ideas towards a single sensation, so that the paintings transcribe a feeling without directly conveying their content. Working over the past fourteen years has led to a way of using paint, building patches of color, scraping away to reveal structures, with lines coming towards the end to carve forms, which hopefully has some meaning in and of itself. Rarely a painting might resolve in a single day, more often they come together over months or years until they look as if things happened all at once, or are just beginning. - Raymond Zarnowitz Image: Raymond Zarnowitz, 𝘞𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘸, 2017, oil on linen, 26 x 21 x 1.5 in Photography @spencerhousestudio #rayzarnowitz #turleygallery

Untitled, 2023 Oil and mixed media on linen 17.5 x 12 inches

Installation views from “Rural Scenes” @starr.suites online now. Thank you to @bryanbanducci for photography

Untitled, 2017-2019

Operator, 2022 Oil on Linen 18”x15”