Oil on linen,private collection,New York

Eruption II, 41,5 in x 30,5 in 2010

ink washes , chachoal,crayons,eraser  on paper

Belongs in a collection in Marocco

                                           
                                 Metamorphosis,41in x 60 in, 2010/11
                                 collage ,collage mixed media &papers ripped and glued
                                 led,chalk,acrylic paint,ink,housepaint etc 2011 

New York in charcoal (detail,14ftx5ft)TStray, as seen in 1998 from studios in twin towers

NY , 14 FT X 5 FT CHARCHOAL ON SAUNDERS PAPER,WTC STUDIOS 85TH FLOOR 1998 BY TORILD STRAY

Last night outside Showroom 170,great performance at the gallery in the LES.I also enjoyed going to see Susanna's small night paintings at Steven's Gallery /shfap

A detail from one of the prints in the limited NY edition.
I started this stone a year ago and I am now on the 3rd image in the stone.
In other words I am continuing to remove,redraw and adding to the image and sealing it in the stone
Interesting .

Last night at Robert Blackburn studios in Hell's Kitchen at The Elisabeth Foundation NYC :

I am sealing the image in the stone (here) for my new lithography prints. The image in the stone is darker than the prints themselves as they have more tones/values/lines/varations & surprises.

                 8feet x 8feet work on saunders watercolor paper in progress in the Brooklyn studio

Yes this quote I like :

"The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is "man" in a higher sense - he is "collective man," a vehicle and moulder of the unconscious psychic life of mankind." 

“Painting for me is an active dialogue between the unconscious and the conscious where new form starts to emerge with a life of its own, charged with content. The content reveals the expression of new form in Art; figurative, yet abstract and metaphorical. With this language, the image can transcend the individual human experience, and express the rawest aspects of the human condition with powerful meaning.” Torild Stray.

" Torild Stray integrates abstract and representational painting  to create depictions of the human condition. There is an otherwordly tenacity about the figures in her paintings."

" The vocabulary of the paintings draws from a gathered iconography - an iconography of personal and emotional significance that restores to each universal symbol the value stripped by the cant (insincere statements ) that has become so common in our age."
Quotes by O.Karlin, independent NY writer

Biography

Torild Stray has held exhibitions of her art work in New York and Norway since the early 1990s. Her vision and commitment as a painter has brought her critical acclaim and a strong international following of collectors. She has been the recipient of many awards and scholarships, including The Angus Gund Scholarship, The New York Times Scholarship, The Scandinavian Society Cultural Award, a Charles Revson Fellowship and The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Artist in Residence Program in New York. Stray works out of her studio in Brooklyn,New York