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Rachel Emma Ray’s Paintings, Filed Like a Tiny Operating System

rachelemmaray.com ↗ · Personal Pages · score 86.0
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A New York City oil painter’s portfolio presented as an imaginative desktop of galleries, exhibitions, studio notes, and downloadable files.

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Rachel Emma Ray turns the conventional artist portfolio into a playful file-based studio, complete with About.txt, Exhibitions.doc, Contact.vcf, windows, time-of-day settings, and a random-painting button. Beneath the interface is substantial material: paintings organized into named series, residency updates, exhibition history, and a thoughtful account of how her work engages with the body, memory, and material.

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