I’ll be exhibiting all new works at Lula Cafe, Chicago along with artist Ann Marie Greenberg. The show will be up for 3 months starting August 23rd with an opening reception on Tuesday, September 19th at 6pm.
BOP! It’s the title of the show and a word on loan from the lexicon of Jazz—a staccato double time rhythm with complex progressions and improvisations. In this next iteration of BOP!, the call is for pieces that expand on the definition of collage while narrowing the focus to a visual push-pull that immerses viewers in the rhythm of the artform. BOP! artists are asked to engage with the medium in an approach steeped in other American artforms. Mainly Jazz, Rock ‘n’ roll, modern dance and film.
Collage has a diverse vocabulary and history, along with a creative inquiry on an international scale, explored by artists and viewers in large numbers. At the core of the beat is a global community of artists with a passion for sharing, discussing and transforming collage. While artist collectives, individuals, festivals and institutions are all craving something beyond the historical understanding of the artform. From this current status, it is clear that the medium is a message of community, collaboration and chromatic collisions.
In 2019, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh presented a survey of 400 years of collage. Within it were 250 works of art from a show entitled Cut and Paste. Without surprise, it included Braque, Picasso, Hoch, Schwitters and Ernst, as well as post-war Matisse, Rauschenberg et al. While a survey of this sort was the first, and from an educational perspective necessary, it has the world wondering, what’s next? And even more importantly, who?
BOP! will show us the collage masterworks of those cutting and sticking with verve.
We’re pumped for this one ! Tickets available here: eventbrite
AITIS BAND is looking forward to be included in this wild line event !
I’m thrilled to announce my next show at TF Projects/ The Dime I’ll be showing all new work based on my dream world of that last six month.
Coasting on None paintings by Ray Borchers
July 8 - August 2022 (opening reception July 8, 5-8pm)
TF Projects/ The Dime
1513 N Western Ave Unit #104 Chicago, IL 60622
Next show !
Welcome to the worlds of 18 local artists. Traverse the odd and magical, the dark, soft, and the generally strange. Enter and form narratives in a space unburdened by reason and unweathered by time. What will you learn?
Curated by William Schaeuble and Lucca Colombelli
AITIS BAND opens for MAN ON MAN Thursday, March 31st 2022 at Sleeping Village, Chicago w/ Bev Rage & the Drinks. Doors are at 8pm
An early announcement for my upcoming solo show: My Life, with pleasure. It’s been over ten years since my last solo show so I’m very excited to say the least !
Opening night is July 16th, 2021 from 6-9pm at Paper Hat Gallery (1953 N. Campbell Ave. Chicago, IL 60622). The show will be up through August 13th, 2021 (by appointment).
You can find out more about Paper Hat Gallery here:
https://www.instagram.com/paperhatchicago
https://www.paperhatchicago.bigcartel.com
Looking forward to see everyone after this bananas past year and a half !
Much love from,
Ray
A STEP IN MY DIRECTION. Curated by Angela Lovell . Hosted by The Office Gallery
Works by:
Angela Lovell
Claire Reynes
Ray Borchers
Emma Covode
Jen Stumbaugh
Elya Stumbaugh
John Stumbaugh
Erica Moore
Saturday, June 1st from 6-9pm
4517 Oakton St.
Skokie, IL 60076
Libations will be served. $5 suggested donation
➽ Exposition de la ligne de T-shirts (SHARPIE SHIRTS) de Ray BORCHERS, peints à la main tout en nuances de noirs, qui reprennent des thèmes liés à la culture pop et la nostalgie des mythes du rock'n'roll.
➽ Jeudi 15 novembre 18:00. Soirée de clôture : drinks + DJ sets de Richard Linon et Pierre Sojdrug.
[ Ray BORCHERS est une jeune artiste vivant à Chicago --- « un diamant crasseux » selon ses propres mots. De ses multiples rencontres, des virées nocturnes avec le troubadour Nikki « tout ça finira dans les pleurs » SUDDEN à une vie beat partagée avec Kevin Junior (musicien concitoyen, lui aussi disparu et dont on ne soulignera jamais assez la grande finesse mélodique), elle a gardé le trauma et la certitude de la fragilité de la condition humaine. Toutes les formes artistiques qu’elle a explorées, peinture, dessin, musique, performances etc., en embrassent une expression très personnelle. L’évocation instinctive de cette précarité, combinée à une sensibilité pop, crée un langage singulier in fine intuitif. ]
Heatwave presents - Fuck Dance, Let's Art!
Join us for a relaxed Sunday evening of art, rock and roll and some more shenaningans!
We will have exhibits from 3 artists, live bands and Heatwave DJs!
Artists
Ray Borchers - “Intuitive Pop” T-Shirt exhibition - (US)
http://www.rayborchers.com
Ray is a working artist, living in Chicago since she graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago. She works in many different mediums and styles, from large scale paintings, to portraits on T-shirts, to simple cartoons. Additionally, Ray is a musician; she plays multiple instruments and contributes to several bands and musical projects, incorporating her visual works as a part of her live performances and in creating music videos. A current focus of her work is a line she’s created of hand-drawn T-shirts using Sharpie conveying themes related to pop, nostalgia and cult culture. Ray’s art is varied but it is united; it can be described as “Intuitive Pop”. The world of Pop is free from social confines and celebrates diversity, the world of Intuition is one of pure and honest sensibilities, when these worlds collide, “Intuitive Pop” is made.
Natasja Alers - (NL)
https://www.natasjaalers.nl/
Natasja Alers grew up in The Hague, Holland. In 2012 she graduated from the Ceramics department at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. Currently she is working as an autonomous artist, dj, art director, initiator of Grauzone and promoter of concerts in The Netherlands.
In her new work, she casts nipples of friends and constructs them in weird shaped vases with drippy glazes, so they are very touchable and psychical. She combines multiple disciplines such as: ceramics, installations, oil painting and super cool collages!! Come touch for yourself!
Roy Licher - (NL)
Roy is a legend and all we know is that if he doesn't paint he dies or gets naked! Come see it for yourself.
We will bring any old issues of Heatwave Magazine so you can grab one for FREE - Plus Live bands to be announced and Heatwave DJs!!
Punk child friendly event! Come to the church of rock and roll!
FREE ENTRY!!
