Three Christs, Sleeping Mime, and the Last Supper
Pagan Paradise

Charles Ray and the Hill Collection

The Hill Art Foundation is pleased to present an exhibition of sculpture curated by artist Charles Ray, featuring Renaissance and Baroque bronzes from the Hill Collection alongside recent works by Ray.

To assemble the exhibition, Ray drew from the Hill Collection, which spans from the Renaissance to the present and includes one of the largest and most important private collections of Renaissance and Baroque bronzes in the world, as well as a significant collection of Ray’s own work. The exhibition follows the Frick Collection’s 2014 exhibition Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Hill Collection, the first time that the Hills’ remarkable group of statuettes by masters of the Italian, French, German, and Dutch schools were shown together. For the exhibition at the Hill Art Foundation, Ray has placed his own work in dialogue with Renaissance and Baroque bronzes. Known for precise and deliberate sculptures that interact closely with art historical themes and techniques, Ray often takes many years to produce each work.

“All of the sculptures in the exhibition have abstract formal qualities but can also depict or find equivalence to philosophical conditions of human existence,” notes Ray. “The exhibition aims to illuminate the viewer’s mind to both of these artistic properties.”