Ray Charles White

Ray Charles White captures the fleeting beauty of water in a series of aluminium multiples. Exploring the emotions and personality of water, White photographs in nature and then interprets surface, texture and technology to create an enamel on aluminium series. Ray Charles White has been working from his loft in New York City for the past 20 years. In the early 1980's he studied with Ansel Adams and later attended the New School for Social Research.

He has exhibited in the United States, Canada, England, France, Germany, Mexico Spain, and Japan. His work is represented in numerous collections including The Tate Gallery, the Dia Art Foundation, FAE - Musee D'Art Contemporain, the Norton Museum of Art, Barclays Bank Corporate Collection, and the Goldman Sachs Corporate Collection.

In an essay on White work, Henry Geldzahler (former Curator of 20th Century Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) wrote: "It was David Hockney who, in many sessions of working and talking, emphasized to Ray that one of the true subjects of photography is the ebb and flow of the life of the moment. Ray Charles White brings no theoretical considerations to bear in his work, no gimmicks, no pre-ordained compositional preferences. Lit naturally, laying bare the workings of time. Ancient and immediate. He fixes his images tenderly yet forcefully."

Ray Charles White says of his work: "I believe photography is an exclusionary exercise, a process of subtraction and distillation. There is an elusive beauty to water-a fleeting, transient, of-the-moment beauty I have tried to capture and translate some of that quality into this work."

Ray Charles White’s work has been published and exhibited internationally and is represented in the Tate Gallery, London and the Barclays Bank collections.