Artist Interventions
For both exterior and site-specific installations, Ray Philly is excited to partner with artists of the area and friends of Ray.
Michelle Lopez
We partnered with Philly-based artist Michelle Lopez for an intervention on Ray Philly’s exterior facade. Lopez was interested in playing with the corner edge of the building where it touches the sky, a portal to bigger ideals, bigger imaginative and creative space. The sky is a space that no one owns. For the sake of unity, we are all together “when under one sky.” Photo by Ethan O'Grady
Rashid Johnson
Rashid Johnson’s art includes autobiographical elements inspired by his early intellectual, musical and literary influences. For Ray Philly’s sunken living room, Johnson created a stacked cell system filled with plants, books, sculpture and light. Photo by Ethan O'Grady
Art Collection
Art has the ability to validate our varied experiences and perspectives. That’s why our approach focuses on diverse voices across mediums. When you live at Ray, you have the unique opportunity to reside alongside works by some of the greatest names in contemporary art and hyper-local emerging talent.
Ulises at Ray
Ulises is a bookshop and project space dedicated to artists’ books and independent art publications that explore the relationship between publics and publications. The space provides an inventory of titles not widely distributed in the United States on contemporary art, graphic design, art theory, architecture, criticism, curatorial practice, and adjacent fields. Ulises supports people who make books and expand the boundaries of what art publishing can be.
Hosting projects, exhibitions, and residencies, Ulises’ open-ended programming considers publishing as an incubator for new forms of artistic, editorial, curatorial, and pedagogical practice. Ulises sees the democratic potential of publishing as a vehicle for activism, education, assembly, and exchange.
Ulises at Ray is located on the ground floor of Ray Philly in artist studio 104, and is open weekly, Wednesday through Sunday from 12-6 PM.
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Events
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Studio 105 at Ray Philly
Located in one of the building’s six ground floor artist studios, Studio 105 is a place for Ray Philly residents, artist studio members, and the larger community to see art and attend an ever-changing assortment of art and culture-based programs. The publically-accesible space will act as a platform for local artists and curators to participate in global dialogues and for global artists to share new perspectives here at home.
Studio 105 is located on the ground floor of Ray Philly in artist studio 105, and is open weekly, Wednesday through Sunday from 12-6 PM (enter through Ulises).
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Artist Studios
Located on Ray’s ground floor, six full-time, bi-level artist studios feature roll-up glass garage doors that open directly onto N. American Street, inviting the neighborhood in. Interested in renting a short-term or long-term artist studio, or Ray’s creative exhibition and event space? We’d love to chat.
14’ ceilings
Spacious powder rooms with separate slop sink
Street access
Signage opportunities for individual studios
Full access to building amenities (landscaped roofgarden, gym, coworking lounge, communal kitchen, etc.)