{"id":1286,"date":"2021-05-06T15:20:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T15:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/?page_id=1286"},"modified":"2021-05-07T17:11:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T17:11:56","slug":"amy-ray","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/amy-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Ray"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Artist&#8217;s Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am obsessed with mark-making. In these works on paper, the images can shift and switch meaning as the mind reads them as minikin and far-off or up-close and intimate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I make marks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My hand moves about the paper and finds relationships between objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I clarify distances, depths, shapes, and open spaces.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The eye finds and defines them: this horizon line, that ink splotch, that cloud, this leaf vein, that pebble, this hill, roads, the figure here.. Wait\u2014maybe it\u2019s not human? Maybe it\u2019s an animal? Or perhaps it is a tree after all!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A single mark can say so many different and divergent things.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Making marks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Making sense of mark-making.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is endless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is timeless.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/Which-city.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"828\" height=\"797\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/Which-city.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/Which-city.jpg 828w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/Which-city-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/Which-city-768x739.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Amy Ray, <em>Which City?<\/em>, ink on paper, 22 x 22 in., 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/Potentially.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"828\" height=\"842\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/Potentially.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/Potentially.jpg 828w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/Potentially-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/Potentially-768x781.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Amy Ray, <em>Potentially,<\/em> ink on paper, 9 x 9 in., 2020.  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/From-a-distance-we-are-closer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"828\" height=\"857\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/From-a-distance-we-are-closer.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/From-a-distance-we-are-closer.jpg 828w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/From-a-distance-we-are-closer-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/files\/2021\/04\/From-a-distance-we-are-closer-768x795.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 828px) 100vw, 828px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Amy Ray, <em>From a Distance We Are Closer<\/em>, ink on paper, 6 x 6 in., 2020.  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/lcbates\/home-summer-exhibition-2021\/\">RETURN TO GALLERY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist&#8217;s Statement I am obsessed with mark-making. In these works on paper, the images can shift and switch meaning as the mind reads them as minikin and far-off or up-close and intimate.&nbsp; I make marks. My hand moves about the paper and finds relationships between objects. 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