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Female-focused gallery concentrating on mid-career artists and on creating connections, conversation, and community. Directed by @shannonraefincke
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sneaky install peeks 👁️👃👁️ of my show “The Weight of Colors” opening this saturday in los angeleez 🌴 at The Middle Room Gallery 🧡🔺🔻🔺 @themiddleroomgallery 3229 Glendale blvd LA CA reception: Sat, Oct 24 6-8pm talk: Sun, Oct 25 1-3pm see u soon! ✈️ #themiddleroomgallery #theweighfofcolors
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So happy I was able to stop by @themiddleroomgallery today before the show closed at 3pm! Great work by @joyrayart and @emilysilverstudio Great to see Joy, @shannonraefincke and @micke_tong
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My solo show of paintings and ceramics is opening at The Middle Room Oct 24 - Nov 22. Please come by if you are in the area! Reception: Sat Oct 24 6-8pm Artist Talk: Sun Oct 25 1-3pm The Middle Room 3229 Glendale Blvd LA, CA (Atwater Village) @themiddleroomgallery info@themiddleroomgallery.com Hours: Sat-Sun 1-3pm #themiddleroomgallery #atwatervillageart #lacaart “Star Child Origin Story (In the Green)” oil on canvas 34 x 26in (photo by Pierre LeHors) “Snakeskin” oil on canvas 12 x 16 in (photo by Pierre LeHors) “Ingres Votive” glazed stoneware 9h x 3w x 3d in “Multi-color Ingres” acrylic gouache and tempera stick on paper 6 x 8 in
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My friend Joy Ray’s work just keeps getting better, each iteration more ambitious and experimental. I visited her exhibition, Speak To Me, at the Middle Room just before leaving for New York, and was struck again by her tenacity and her constant push to expand her visual language. It is awesome to watch an artist’s ideas expand and evolve over time and yet still essentially carry the essence and vision of the artist. Joy’s undulating stuffed forms bring to mind furniture tufting, brain matter, intestines, and spandex stretched over an unruly feminine body. The fissures and stitching between them read like chasms, a kind of void between forms. I can always spot a Joy Ray, regardless of the materials, her commitment to materializing the gap between words and meaning, is always there. Joy is a Los Angeles based interdisciplinary artist, writer, and researcher. Working across installation, textiles, and digital media, she explores the unknown and unseen, often drawing visual language from archival materials. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her work has been exhibited at Hauser & Wirth, MCA Chicago, and other galleries and museums. I’m looking forward to hearing Joy speak about this work. Join Joy and Emily Silver for an artist talk and Q&A. Speak To Me is on view through October 11. Artist Talk + Q&A Sunday, October 4, 4–6 PM The Middle Room @themiddleroomgallery @joyrayart
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Dear Los Angelinos, Please Save the Date! I’m coming Oct 24 for my solo show of paintings @themiddleroomgallery in Atwater Village 👈 🟧 Opening: Sat, Oct 24 6-8pm Artists Talk: Sun, Oct 25 1-3pm Show Dates: Oct 24 - Nov 22 / open Sat-Sun 1-3pm 3229 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles 🔶 Would love to see u 🖤 xo 🔸 The Middle Room is an artist-run gallery run by Founder/Director Shannon Rae Fincke @shannonraefincke 🎃
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“Speak to Me” at The Middle Room @themiddleroomgallery The text and textile works of Joy Ray @joyrayart and Emily Silver @emilysilverstudio curated by @shannonraefincke
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✨ **OPENING TONIGHT IN LOS ANGELES** ✨ 📣📣SPEAK TO ME👄👄 Joy Ray + Emily Silver at 💥The Middle Room Gallery💥 🧃Speak To Me🧃brings together our work through words, fibers, and form, exploring what happens when language leaves the page and becomes physical. Moving between abstraction and legibility, heartache and humor, grief and resilience, the works use textiles, mixed media, and sculptural forms to transform language into something you don’t just read, but see and feel. Joy’s dense, monochromatic works reach toward what is remembered, inherited, and unknowable, while my work uses vibrant color, texture, and material excess to give weight to sharp wit and tender vulnerability. Together, the works create a conversation across the gallery between intensity and levity, the intellectual and emotional, what can be understood and what can simply be felt. 💖 Come see us tonight⭐️⭐️ 🤮SPEAK TO ME🤮 Joy Ray + Emily Silver The Middle Room Gallery, Los Angeles Tonight ✨ #artopening #losangeles #contemporaryart #textiles #emilysilver
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Our Co-Founder Emily Silver @emilysilverstudio has a show opening this weekend at The Middle Room @themiddleroomgallery 🪄🪄 “The Middle Room is pleased to present Speak To Me, a two-person exhibition featuring LA-based artists Joy Ray @joyrayart and Emily Silver. Curated by Shannon Rae Fincke, the show is on view September 12–October 11, with an opening reception on Saturday, 9.12 from 6–8pm.” “Speak To Me is an evocative, tactile exhibition that explores the intersection of words, fibers, and form—creating a complex, dialogue-driven pairing of two distinct multidisciplinary artists who use mixed soft sculptural media and language as subject matter. The text and textile works of Joy Ray and Emily Silver navigate the spaces between expression and material, abstraction and legibility, heartache and humor. Drawing from textile traditions while pushing into three-dimensional space, their works challenge the boundaries between text and image, asking viewers to encounter fragmented and reconfigured words not only as something to read, but as something to see and feel—where meaning hovers at the edge of recognition.” Opening reception Saturday, September 12 from 6:00-8:00 PM Open through October 11 3229 Glendale Blvd, LA We hope to see you there! 🌟 #losangeles #textileart #artopening #curatela #themiddleroomgallery
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Such a fun afternoon with beautiful poetry, lively conversations on art, and laughs with friends! I unintentionally matched the art! 😆
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Joy Ray + Emily Silver #speaktome at @themiddleroomgallery September 12 to October 11, 2026 Reception September 12 6-8pm @joyrayart @emilysilverstudio #kipaipaifellows #lafiberarts
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I’ll be gallery sitting from 1-3 @themiddleroomgallery this Sunday! If you missed the opening, come on thru. Atwater Village is gonna be in epic summer mode with the farmers market and all kinds of places to get coffee brewed in specific ways. Where I End and You Begin is a group show with me and @julia.s.curran and @jonhuck —-on view until Aug 30. See you Sunday! I’ll be in a beautiful air conditioned paradise of art.
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