The Art of Elena Ray

Sometimes the artwork in my continuous Flickr feed draws my attention so I just can't resist clicking on it.

I did that with the work by this artist.

You can see more of her work here on Flickr...

That rare ability to see and capture quiddities...

I believe her name is Elena Ray, because that is her Flickr name: "ElenaRay."

Elena Ray, I like your work!

About her Sunflowers: I love how Odilon Redon this is!

It also reminds me of Japanese printmakers like Nakayama.

I love scumbling done well as it is here.

The chalcopyrite iridescence at the right works for me.

The scoriations in there rather resemble what one sees in ice on a frozen river but in a different context here of course.

If you look carefully at the sunflower on the left and relax your mind, you will see has created an optical illusion. The head of the flower will change planes.

She seems to be able to do the Bridget Riley or Escher type of tricks (the impossible object) without using the standard op art conventions.

Many of her pieces are photos that are manipulated, morphed into paintings.

I love how much she anthropomorphizes these sunflowers.

They remind me of Paolo and Francesca in Dante.

After they have become windborne, I mean.



About "Steppin Out": Drop dead sexy.

Love the plats!

And the werewolf pose thing is hilarious.

Might owe its genesis to Bruce Nauman's very funny "Walking Around the Room photos."

But the lilac ground with cerulean just sexies this guy the fuck up.

Also a little quoting of some Nijinsky here, I believe.

Faun.

The Bakst poster has Nijinsky's one leg changing planes in what almost seems an impossible way also.

It's almost an optical illusion the way the leg on the right changes planes.

This guy has to work with his body professionally in some way: dancer or along those lines anyway.

Unless he just took direction well.

Subtle work, Elena Ray.

Beautifully cagy.