Ray Borchers

Ray Borchers

Born in Chicago, IL / Works in Chicago, IL
BIO
Multidisciplinary artist Ray Borchers employs a collage process in both sourcing of imagery and material application. Her paintings depicts ever-transforming dream-scapes, overflowing with a generous collection of familiar and unfamiliar symbols, shapes and bodies. Her dry humor luxuriates in a confident devotion to her DIY sensibility. Ray’s work has been exhibited worldwide in a variety of format including paintings, large-scale murals, t shirt designs, and album covers. The garments created by her clothing company, BOY NAMES, are comprised of Ray’s painted and printed textiles . Her musical project AITIS BAND is working on their fourth album. Ray received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
My paintings frame a moment in the manner of a camera’s viewfinder or a strip of film, corralling a corner of a much larger expanse. They depict a physical representation of the teeming, ever-moving barrage of information that has become the norm in our everyday experience. This is exciting, overwhelming, and numbing all at once. Every inch of my canvases are pressed, painted and rubbed with a myriad of subjects I gather online, in printed media and throughout my physical world. These images often reveal the confessions of personal hardships. Once inserted, elements are placed over and under the other, only to be negated by the next, until a melding uniformity takes place. Reality and the imagined converge into a deeper and more elevated existence.
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