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Ray Neufeld
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| RAY NEUFELD is a visual artist and scenic designer living and working in New York City. His work
has been exhibited in galleries across the United States and abroad, most recently in Hungary,
Scotland, Korea and Japan. In addition to creating video, installations, sculpture and large-scale
drawings, Ray enjoys teaching and working in theater and television.
In my art I explore elements of line and shape through video, sculpture and installation as drawings
in space. Whether working with reanimated, reclaimed objects or reframing images of the ordinary
through video, I create site-specific, confrontational work. While created with a formalist's eye for
clarity and an expressionist's sense of process, the resulting conceptual work transcends an
intellectual analysis and warrants emotional interpretation as well. Further inspection and
introspection exposes a bleaker side to the seemingly nostalgic and whimsical. Shell-forms, waterless
pools, dry fire hose, folded paper shark egg sacs – all rely upon absence for their visual strength.
The empty vessels allude to both the mind and to the body, human or otherwise. Through this
physical investigation I reference memory and loss. I risk evoking nostalgia in order to reinvent the
familiar, to provoke personal reflection, and to inspire change in our view of the everyday. |
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DESCRIPTIONS
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The first three works I have selected all reflect my interest in the meditative beauty of the mundane.
While the medium is video I view each of these as a moving painting.
In Swim II, swimmers shot from an underwater vantage point pass by in endless succession.
In Water Painting, a spillway shot from directly overhead rushes continuously and creates an elegant
line over its edge.
Balaton Bus Stop, Bath Tub Balna is video documentation of a sculptural installation: two cast paper
bath tubs suspended in a bus stop in Lake Balaton, hungary. |
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