Image: Joe Ray New Eye 1969

Description: Sculpture by Joe Ray, New Eye (cast resin and plexiglas, 7" x 11" x 11", 1969). The image illustrates a key early body of work in Joe Ray's career beginning in the 1960s: his abstract, cast-resin sculptures exploring perception, the effects of transient light and movement, the individual human body and its systems, and the cosmos. These works were related the California Light and Space movement and employed basic shapes and arrangements, as in this work, consisting of several rings with a spheres in the middle. Ray often added pigments to his resin works—in some cases candy-colored hues or, as in this work, and black and white values that alluded to referencing racial issues. This body of work was publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, discussed in major art journals and daily press publications and acquired by a major museum.
Title: Joe Ray New Eye 1969
Credit: Artist Joe Ray. Copyright held by the artist.
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