{"id":15443,"date":"2025-04-16T14:23:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T18:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=15443"},"modified":"2025-04-16T14:23:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T18:23:29","slug":"alan-bray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/alan-bray\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Bray"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2466\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-15443-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2025\/AlanBray.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2025\/AlanBray.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/2025\/AlanBray.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15445 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/P1090773-2.jpg?resize=257%2C382&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/P1090773-2.jpg?resize=689%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 689w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/P1090773-2.jpg?resize=202%2C300&amp;ssl=1 202w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/P1090773-2.jpg?resize=768%2C1142&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/P1090773-2.jpg?resize=1033%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1033w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/P1090773-2.jpg?resize=696%2C1035&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/P1090773-2.jpg?w=1066&amp;ssl=1 1066w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.garveysimon.com\/exhibitions\/alan-bray-inhabited-landscape\">Alan Bray<\/a> was born in Waterville, Maine, and grew up in Monson, a small slate-quarrying town set in the northern reaches of the Appalachians. Bray attended the Art Institute of Boston before graduating from the University of Southern Maine; he received his MFA in painting from the Villa Schifanoia in Florence, Italy. It was during this formative time in Florence that he was exposed to casein tempera on panel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bray\u2019s work has been the subject of no less than 25 solo exhibitions and is included in the public collections of the Portland Museum of Art, ME; DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, MA; the Farnsworth Museum of Art, ME; Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY; Zillman Art Museum, ME; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, WI; Lyman Allyn Museum of Arts, New London, CT; \u00a0Maine Savings Bank Collection, Memphis Cancer Center, Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts, Menlo Park, CA; among others. The artist lives and works in Sangerville, Maine.<\/p>\n<p>As both a naturalist and a painter, Bray is drawn to what often goes unnoticed. \u201cI paint what is right around me,\u201d he says. \u201cOccasionally it\u2019s a big subject, but more often it\u2019s a bird\u2019s nest or a farm pond.\u201d Like the subtle geometry of his compositions, Bray\u2019s preference for modest, unassuming subjects\u2014backwater meanders over mountaintop vistas\u2014is deliberate and quietly profound. He has become an expert observer of bogs and shorelines, rock slides and fallow fields, daybreaks and dusks, the shifting edges of seasons. In the overlooked landscapes of his native Maine, Bray uncovers a deep sense of spirituality that gives his work its quiet power\u2014transformative in its presence, not merely descriptive.<\/p>\n<p>Bray paints in casein, a milk-based tempera that has virtually no drying time. Necessarily, his paintings are technically complex because they consist of thousands of tiny brush strokes, built up in layers, out of which the images \u2013 the vision \u2013 advance from the foundation of a mirror-smooth, absolute void of white ground. It is a method of painting that follows directly from his method of exploring his subjects.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15446\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15446\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15446 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR053_Neighbors_-2025-casein-on-panel-11x14-copy.jpg?resize=696%2C544&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR053_Neighbors_-2025-casein-on-panel-11x14-copy.jpg?resize=1024%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR053_Neighbors_-2025-casein-on-panel-11x14-copy.jpg?resize=300%2C235&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR053_Neighbors_-2025-casein-on-panel-11x14-copy.jpg?resize=768%2C600&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR053_Neighbors_-2025-casein-on-panel-11x14-copy.jpg?resize=1536%2C1201&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR053_Neighbors_-2025-casein-on-panel-11x14-copy.jpg?resize=2048%2C1601&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR053_Neighbors_-2025-casein-on-panel-11x14-copy.jpg?resize=696%2C544&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR053_Neighbors_-2025-casein-on-panel-11x14-copy.jpg?resize=1068%2C835&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR053_Neighbors_-2025-casein-on-panel-11x14-copy.jpg?resize=1920%2C1501&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR053_Neighbors_-2025-casein-on-panel-11x14-copy.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Bray, Neighbors, 2025 Casein on panel, 11 x 14 in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15447\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15447\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15447 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR051_A-Whisper-Breaks-The-Silence-2024-casein-on-panel-15x20-1.jpg?resize=696%2C517&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR051_A-Whisper-Breaks-The-Silence-2024-casein-on-panel-15x20-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C761&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR051_A-Whisper-Breaks-The-Silence-2024-casein-on-panel-15x20-1.jpg?resize=300%2C223&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR051_A-Whisper-Breaks-The-Silence-2024-casein-on-panel-15x20-1.jpg?resize=768%2C571&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR051_A-Whisper-Breaks-The-Silence-2024-casein-on-panel-15x20-1.jpg?resize=1536%2C1141&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR051_A-Whisper-Breaks-The-Silence-2024-casein-on-panel-15x20-1.jpg?resize=2048%2C1521&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR051_A-Whisper-Breaks-The-Silence-2024-casein-on-panel-15x20-1.jpg?resize=485%2C360&amp;ssl=1 485w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR051_A-Whisper-Breaks-The-Silence-2024-casein-on-panel-15x20-1.jpg?resize=696%2C517&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR051_A-Whisper-Breaks-The-Silence-2024-casein-on-panel-15x20-1.jpg?resize=1068%2C793&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR051_A-Whisper-Breaks-The-Silence-2024-casein-on-panel-15x20-1.jpg?resize=1920%2C1426&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR051_A-Whisper-Breaks-The-Silence-2024-casein-on-panel-15x20-1.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Bray A Whisper Breaks the Silence, 2024 Casein on panel, 15 x 20 in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15448\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15448\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15448 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR050-Refuge-NEW-2024-casein-on-panel-16x20-copy-2.jpg?resize=696%2C550&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR050-Refuge-NEW-2024-casein-on-panel-16x20-copy-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C809&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR050-Refuge-NEW-2024-casein-on-panel-16x20-copy-2.jpg?resize=300%2C237&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR050-Refuge-NEW-2024-casein-on-panel-16x20-copy-2.jpg?resize=768%2C607&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR050-Refuge-NEW-2024-casein-on-panel-16x20-copy-2.jpg?resize=1536%2C1214&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR050-Refuge-NEW-2024-casein-on-panel-16x20-copy-2.jpg?resize=2048%2C1619&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR050-Refuge-NEW-2024-casein-on-panel-16x20-copy-2.jpg?resize=696%2C550&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR050-Refuge-NEW-2024-casein-on-panel-16x20-copy-2.jpg?resize=1068%2C844&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR050-Refuge-NEW-2024-casein-on-panel-16x20-copy-2.jpg?resize=1920%2C1518&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/ABR050-Refuge-NEW-2024-casein-on-panel-16x20-copy-2.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alan Bray Refuge, 2024 Casein on panel, 16 x 20 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