What happens when someone turns the volume up on your art?

To read what they wrote about my work--my accomplishment. Brings with it joy and a need for a good dose of humbleness- To understand my feelings- One has to remember how many artists, fantastic artists, are out there in the world- each trying, working so hard- giving up so much. That they can create, share their ideas- thru the medium they so that we can hear them.  

When you, as an artist are chosen to be highlighted-when someone turns the volume up on your voice- either a small event or large one- it is a stunning moment. One to be shared as a multi - accomplishment.

 To take each step forward towards a dream, one cared for by so many- an individual must bring all, who have the same desire down this path of human endeavor.- Thru the ups and the downs. 

It makes for a more vibrant world. Whether it be a group show, a one-person event- a selling of work- a collector understanding the art- a patron supporting the visions of the artist. All of these, become pebbles, on our journey.  

Each instance of acknowledgment lays out before us a sentient pathway, embodying all the collective, desperate dreams -wishes. 

- we walk on this together. 

Those round, rough, cracked and so worn, stones of all shapes- gathered together without exclusivity- elevates all participants on that bumpy journey, creativity. 

For me, that is the joy and goal of art- the ability, the freedom for all to express. Holding on to this humility will allow the paths to be shared by all.  In my view an imperative, a necessity for the arts and their infinite creators. For they are the voices of humanity.

Shray

SALOMON ARTS GALLERY | Mystical Forces – January 25th, 2018

13 Jan Mystical Forces – January 25th, 2018 Posted at 07:12h in Upcoming by Editor Gallery Open & Hours: January 25 – February 25, 2018By appointment – 212-966-1997 Bronze sculptor, SHRAY, is one of the few…

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Mystical Forces – January 25th, 2018 -Editor

Bronze sculptor, SHRAY, is one of the few working artists today who employs the technique, where the artist finds the form in the clay as opposed to adding clay to an armature. Much like the technique of carving, Shray works with lines and shadows of the block, thoughtfully eliminating material from the block as she sculpts. Her simplicity of form has been compared to that of Henry Moore, Rodin, and Brancusi.

“I see the emotion in the form, the hard lines, the curves, and allow them to carry the human condition through and around the negative and positive spaces. I am concerned with the fine line between the individual and humanity and how to achieve this without succumbing to sentimentality. This is one of the great puzzles figurative sculptors face. My approach is to let the form carry the emotion.” An intuitive artist, Shray’s sculptures never appear labored or forced. “While I work, I am able to see geometrically while recognizing a sense of humanity while pushing towards abstraction.” Shray balances the figurative and the abstract without losing human emotion.

Over the past 25 years, Shray’s work has received both national and international recognition in the form of awards and commissions. Shray’s bronze sculpture, Raising Tomorrow’s Olympic Champions was juried to travel throughout China and the world as the winner of the Excellent Works Award by the Organizing Committee of the 2008 Olympic Games. Based on the success of this juried exhibition, Shray became the recipient of the 5 Rings Award at the Fourth Annual Beijing 2008 Cultural Festival.

Shray’s bronze sculpture is constantly evolving. “My objective as an artist is to create a piece that captures movement in stillness. The hard metal becomes the flesh and bone of humanity to reveal a strong sense of universality and invite a personal identification. I strive for a quality of pureness and allow the viewer inside the work, to identify each in their own way with the story.”

For MYSTICAL FORCES, Shray premieres her new, mixed media paintings that give form to the silent thousand words that become their own language between lovers or between viewer and artist

SALOMON ARTS GALLERY | Mystical Forces – January 25th, 2018

Gallery Open & Hours: January 25 – February 25, 2018

By appointment – 212-966-1997

13 Jan Mystical Forces – January 25th, 2018 Posted at 07:12h in Upcoming by Editor Gallery Open & Hours: January 25 – February 25, 2018By appointment – 212-966-1997 Bronze sculptor, SHRAY, is one of the few…