"Traces of Randy Wray's Southern upbringing abound in his meticulously created paintings, sculptures, and installations, along with hints of the supernatural and the alien as well as of an age long passed. Describing his sculptures as "psychic architecture," he uses found objects as points of departure to create ghostly assemblages that can be seen alternately as organic and architectural. Wray's work evokes the sense of ruin found in much Southern Gothic literary tradition, as well as intimations of the haunted, the grotesque, and the everyday supernatural." - Michele Yun, MoMA PS1

Randy Wray attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, the Maryland Institute, College of Art (BFA) and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Awards include the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Studio Residency. Solo exhibitions include White Columns (New York, NY), Weatherspoon Art Museum (Greensboro, NC), Galeria Camargo Vilaça (São Paulo, Brazil) and Greenville County Art Museum (Greenville, SC). Group exhibitions include MoMA PS1 (Long Island City, NY), Kate MacGarry Gallery (London), Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills, MI), Socrates Sculpture Park (Long Island City, NY) and Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI). Museum collections include Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Il), Museu de Arte Moderna (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), Greenville County Art Museum (Greenville, SC), Glenstone (Potomac, MD) and Weatherspoon Art Museum (Greensboro, NC). Randy Wray lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.


March 1, 12:30 pm
Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston