Blake Rayne
Born in Lewes, Delaware, in 1969 / Lives and works in New York, USA.
Blake Rayne

Blake Rayne’s paintings stem from the generative duplicity of words like Script, Folder, Application, Dissolve and Screen. These operative terms situate the work between forms of linguistic description and the history of reflexive material practices in art. He begins from an orientation that considers the terms “painter” and “painting” as fictions. They have no stable material definition, but rather are shaped by evolving social, institutional and physical relations. Rayne’s mode of abstract painting is irrevocably marked by Conceptual art.


He studied at the California Institute of the Arts, and was the Director of Graduate Studies at Columbia University’s School of Visual Arts from 2003 to 2009. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Artists Space, SculptureCenter, The Kitchen, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Künstlerhaus, Graz; Bergen Kunsthall; and the Blaffer Art Museum, Houston. Rayne’s paintings are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, the Portland Museum of Art and the Pinault Collection, among others.


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