Lynda Ray received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, MA in 1987. That year she also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, ME where she studied under Agnes Martin with whom she maintained contact and visited over subsequent years. Two thoughts she references are “perfection is in the mind” from Agnes and the “work parallels the experience” from her college professor Rob Moore.
Ray has been awarded a grant in 2018+2020 from CultureWorks Grant Program, artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Colony, Johnson, VT; the Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM; and the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Woodstock, NY. She has received fellowships from the Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Program and The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
Lynda’s work and interview with Julie Karabenick are posted on the international forum Geoform.net. Her work is included in The Art of Encaustic Painting by Joanne Mattera.
Since 1987 her work has been widely exhibited in the US and have been featured in 20 solo exhibitions including the traveling exhibition; Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic at the Hunterdon Art Museum, NJ. Her work was also included in the exhibit Depth Perception at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA. Ray’s work is found in numerous private, corporate and public collections. She is a presenter and instructor at the International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown, MA and teaches workshops in encaustic throughout the U.S. She lives and works in Richmond, Virginia.