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① Artwork:
untitled (drying sheets)
In this painting, white and orange sheets drape from thin, overlapping black wires inside a room. The fabric feels fleshy and substantial, emphasized by the intense expression of a single character below.
Raya Terran depicts the nakedness of living things looking for spaces to inhabit. In her intimately-scaled paintings, they lean against cars or each other, either growing around structures and zones or pressing against them until they break, allowing the viewer to witness these moments of freedom, revelry and migration.
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③ Artist:
Raya Terran depicts the nakedness of living things and how they find spaces to inhabit. In her intimately-scaled paintings, living things lean against cars or each other, either growing around structures and spaces or pressing against them until they break. Terran’s work allows the viewer to witness these moments of freedom, revelry and migration, in which the absence of clothing is emphasized.
Raya Terran was born in 1996 in Marin County, CA, and lives in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA from The Cooper Union in New York City, NY (2019).
She has mounted solo exhibitions at Yossi Milo Gallery in New York City, NY (2021) and Rubber Factory in New York City, NY (2020).
Her work has also been featured in group exhibitions, including Circular Ruins at Island Gallery in New York City, NY (2022); Surprise! at Tilton Gallery in New York City, NY (2022); Here, There and Everywhere: Women’s Imaginated Post Covid Lockdown at Elizabeth Weiss in New York City, NY (2021); and Sower at Rubber Factory in New York City, NY (2019).
Terran has received multiple awards for her art, including a Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist nomination (2019) and The Cooper Union Toni and David Yarnell Merit Award of Excellence in Art (2019).
