Art for All | Heirloom Collage with Fay Ray

Self-Portrait Collaging with Fay Ray

In Heirloom Collage, Fay Ray will lead workshop attendees in creating a self-portrait with polaroid pictures taken by Fay. Using black and white imagery to build around their portrait, attendees will have an opportunity to create heirloom artworks while exploring contrast and texture using monochromatic materials.

About Fay Ray

Los Angeles-based artist Fay Ray explores the fetishization of objects and the

construction of female identity through high-contrast, monochrome photomontages and

metallic sculpture. For her three-dimensional works, Fay Ray compiles cast aluminum

objects, bored volcanic rocks, wire, chain, and natural materials into suspended

sculptural masses. Conflating worlds of worship and desire, the works across mediums

borrow from the symbolism and composition of traditional religious relics and the visual

language of the occult. Ray’s sculptures and collages hint at the presence of a

rematerialized body through a mysterious yet systematic organization of abstract form.

Fay Ray received her MFA from Columbia University and her BFA from Otis College of

Art and Design. Solo exhibitions include The Soraya Art Gallery, California State

University Northridge, Northridge, CA; Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA; Louis B

James Gallery, New York, NY; JOAN, Los Angeles, CA; and Honor Fraser Gallery, Los

Angeles, CA. Ray’s special projects and installations have been featured at Gagosian

Gallery, Beverly Hills and New York; REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA; and L.A.N.D. (Los

Angeles Nomadic Division). Group exhibitions include Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; The

Mistake Room, Los Angeles and Mexico City; Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA;

Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY; El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; among others.

Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Palm Springs Museum of Art and

the Los Angeles County Museum of art. Ray’s works have been reviewed by Artforum,

Los Angeles Times, New York Times, New York Magazine, Brooklyn Rail, Riot Material,

Wallpaper*, and Issue Magazine.

Image credit: Credit: Fay Ray, Mirror Lens Future Crested, 2024, in PORTALS, MOCA Tucson 2024. Photograph by Maya Hawk, copyright © MOCA Tucson, 2024.

Compound’s Art For All is a series of hands-on workshops that teach various artistic mediums and encourages a new way of making art that’s fun and engaging for the whole family. You will be able to learn drawing, collage, painting, performance, sculpture, ceramics, music-making, and much more.

Workshops are free and open to all thanks to this year’s sponsor, The Port of Long Beach, U.S. Bank, and a donation by The Rudolph J. and Daphne A. Munzer Foundation.

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