KESTING / RAY

KESTING / RAY is an innovative gallery and creative catalyst in New York. Our mission, grounded by the concept of psychogeography, is to discover and present the most important contemporary artwork exploring the relationship between people and places. HISTORY In early 2002, Brooklyn artist an... Read more

KESTING / RAY is an innovative gallery and creative catalyst in New York. Our mission, grounded by the concept of psychogeography, is to discover and present the most important contemporary artwork exploring the relationship between people and places.

HISTORY
In early 2002, Brooklyn artist and curator Christina Ray launched Glowlab as an experimental, web-based arts lab to support the visibility and expression of artists within her community. Ray produced exhibitions and projects including street-based performance work and site specific interventions both in her Williamsburg loft and in the greater urban environment.

In 2003 Ray co-founded the Conflux Festival, a New York City urban art and technology festival and symposium attracting artists and academics from all corners of the globe. Emerging from the collaborative development, production, and exhibition of projects inspired by psychogeography, Conflux has become an internationally-acclaimed annual festival now in its seventh year and Ray remains active as Festival Director.

Glowlab moved from Brooklyn to Manhattan in 2008, launching an exhibition space at the edge of SoHo. As an innovative model advancing a niche collective of artists, thinkers and technologists, Glowlab produced over a dozen solo and group exhibitions, artist talks and performances. Over the years, Glowlab projects have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal Online, The Economist, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice, Time Out, New York Press, Flash Art, Art Review, Artnet, Whitewall, Adbusters and many others.

In early 2010, Ray re-launched the gallery under her own name and renewed her commitment to contemporary art, technology and creative projects examining the nature and psychology of the built environment.