This is my contribution to the publication Accordion put together by Maggie Jensen. The theme for this one is Gatekeeper. Keep your peepers peeled spring 2017!
Monday, December 26, 2016
Friday, December 16, 2016
Give a sh*t!...even if you don't.
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Greetings from KRAMPUS!
More ornaments available for your taunting pleasure! Visit my ETSY shop:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/SNAKEeyes?ref=hdr_shop_menu
Friday, October 21, 2016
MASKED
MASKED, a show celebrating masks and works that explore disguises. Halloween provides a perfect opportunity to think about masks. According to folklore, trick-or-treaters veiled their identity to protect themselves from supernatural beings and souls the may have been roaming the earth during that liminal period. For the wearer, the mask creates both a new identity and conceals the wearer's’ individual identity. Come and enjoy this collection of shifting personas, from delightful to wicked! Featuring the works of Jill Van Orden, Matthew Marks, Ron Van Orden, Madalyn Olson, Julia Humphhreys, Eve Pearce, Maggie Pesce, E.Bay and Rhonda Ratray.
Some pieces are on loan from private collections, others are for sale.
JOIN US FOR THE OPENING:
October 23, 2-4pm at the North Bennington Train Depot. Showing till Nov.5
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Dia de los Muertos
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Soul suck/ Mind meld
Double Double Devil painting
Acrylic on paper 2016
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One of my Double Devil Paintings is included in this awesome show in LA!
Opening Reception
Thursday, October 6th 5-8pm
Works on view through November 27
at Esqueleto LA: 1298 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
The 5th annual Day of the Dead themed group show to our Los Angeles location for the first time. Ten different artists have created works on paper which represent their unique takes on the holiday.
Featuring new work by:
Afton Love
Raul Gonzalez
Rhonda Ratray
Ethan Caflisch
Sophie Lourdes Knight
Todd White
Shane Butler
Melissa Bolger
Kreh Mellick
Alexis Adams
http://shopesqueleto.com/module/imageGallery/gallery?cat_id=39
Wednesday, August 3, 2016
ONCE BALLROOM
Poster illustration I created for Wolves in the Throne Room, Feral and
Obsidian Tongue!!!
The show is already sold out!
Flip The Bird
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| Flip the Bird a splendid 7 page micro zine for fun and amusement. ALSO includes a large 8.5" x 11" DOUBLE BIRD with CLOVER illustration. Through powerful optical illusions you can see a bird or the bird!!! available at my ETSY SHOP |
Thursday, July 21, 2016
YARD SALE!
FOR THE LOVE OF YARD SALES!!!!!
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| Posters by Jack Schneider 2016 |
Come and experience the yard sale of a lifetime. This unique exhibition will feature an assortment of art and objects produced by over 15 contemporary artists. Everything for sale will be listed at $150 and below. Free parking.
I have my new deviled paintings and sculptures some other GEMS!
JULY 29TH-31ST
Hours of Operation
FRI: 5:30pm-7:30pm (opening reception)
SAT: 10am-6pm
SUN: 10am-4pm
Sunday, May 22, 2016
Picture Stories 2
The premise:
Picture Stories (Super Special) is collaboration between illustration and painting students, faculty, and invited guests from the Edinburgh College of Art, UK; the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA; and the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA.
The brief centres on participants exchanging and responding to short written narratives. Artists from ECA would send their ‘stories’ to Boston and to San Francisco, and vice versa.
Individual artists would respond primarily to those narratives in the most appropriate visual manner. This project, to some extent, is in the spirit of Harvey Pekar’s American Splendour, in which Harvey’s life stories are illustrated by different artists. It is also worth looking at Matt Madden’s book, 99 Ways to Tell a Story. In this book a simple narrative, “man goes to fridge”, is told in various style and mood of illustration.
to Purchase:
Sunday, March 6, 2016
Picture story
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"Flying Ointment" my black and white drawing for "Picture Stories" The "color" version will be available as part of the collection and maybe as prints? |
Picture Stories (Super Special) is collaboration between illustration and painting students of Edinburgh College of Art, students and affiliated artists at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, USA, and students and affiliated artists at the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA.The brief centres on participants responding to short written narratives. The ECA has swapped their ‘stories’ with Boston and to San Francisco, and vice versa.
This was the text sent to me:
"They took out the recipe book, and following directions; they began laying out small amounts of everything in dishes. Measured and calculated, powders and liquids. Mixed to a consistency that when you dip your finger into it, your finger should be just barely coated. You should still be able to see the wrinkles located on the back of your finger. Not too sticky, lumpy, thick or overworked. Never overworked. The mixture should stick to you but also move away, falling silently back into the bowl."
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Sunday, February 28, 2016
Potty Palz
Custom stickers for your Potty...There's always a friend when you're down in the dumps... with POTTY PALZ!
Each package contains a set of stickers for a (1) toilet water tank. Please specify which pal you prefer...Happy Go, Sad Sac, Scream Dream, Squee, Stare Care or Winky! More Palz to come!!
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Hankies
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| Cops and Whiskey Lake Screenprint on cotton. Mythos Merch 2016 Rhonda Ratray |
Big Rock Candy Mountain by
Harry McClintock
One evening
as the sun went down
And the
jungle fires were burning,
Down the
track came a hobo hiking,
And he said,
"Boys, I'm not turning;
I'm headed
for a land that's far away
Beside the
crystal fountains
So come with
me, we'll go and see
The Big Rock
Candy Mountains.
In the Big
Rock Candy Mountains,
There's a
land that's fair and bright,
Where the
handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep
out every night.
Where the
boxcars all are empty
And the sun
shines every day
On the birds
and the bees
And the
cigarette trees
The lemonade
springs
Where the
bluebird sings
In the Big
Rock Candy Mountains.
In the Big
Rock Candy Mountains
All the cops
have wooden legs
And the
bulldogs all have rubber teeth
And the hens
lay soft-boiled eggs
The farmers'
trees are full of fruit
And the barns
are full of hay
Oh I'm bound
to go
Where there
ain't no snow
Where the
rain don't fall
The winds
don't blow
In the Big
Rock Candy Mountains.
In the Big
Rock Candy Mountains
You never
change your socks
And the
little streams of alcohol
Come
trickling down the rocks
The brakemen
have to tip their hats
And the
railway bulls are blind
There's a
lake of stew
And of
whiskey too
You can
paddle all around them
In a big
canoe
In the Big
Rock Candy Mountains.
In the Big
Rock Candy Mountains,
The jails are
made of tin.
And you can
walk right out again,
As soon as
you are in.
There ain't
no short-handled shovels,
No axes, saws
nor picks,
I'm bound to
stay
Where you
sleep all day,
Where they
hung the jerk
That invented
work
In the Big
Rock Candy Mountains ...
I'll see you
all this coming fall
In the Big
Rock Candy Mountains.
Big Rock Candy Mountain, was first recorded by Harry McClintock in 1928, and appears to be a modern version of the medieval concept of Cockaigne. Cockaigne or Cockayne /kɒˈkeɪn/ is a land of plenty, an imaginary place of extreme luxury and ease where physical comforts and pleasures are always at hand and where the harshness of peasant life does not exist. In Specimens of Early English Poets (1790) George Ellis printed a 13th-century French poem called "The Land of Cockaigne" where "The houses were made of barley sugar and cakes, the streets were paved with pastry, and the shops supplied goods for nothing.” Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s painting "Luilekkerland" (The Land of Cockaigne), 1567. Literally translated as, ”relaxed luscious, delicious land” pictures sleepy revelers lounging in abundance. The Brothers Grimm translated a similar fairy tale, Schlaraffenland “The Land of milk and honey.” This story also describes a land of extreme abundance, as well as a land of opposites, where the weakest and meekest are the strongest.
What could be better for a person, than to have all their
needs met? Is it the lap of luxury to live in a place where no one has to
"work" for money with plenty of clean water, food, and ample
alcohol? Another kind of luxury, where
the police are not a threat, where traveling is easy and sleeping under
the stars every night is always warm and comfortable… That sounds like utopia.
The land of milk and honey… Big Rock Candy Mountain is a Neverland.
What is the message beyond reveling in the
fantasy of a decadent Willy Wonka world, a place so opposite of the one we
inhabit? Is it to imagine a world of pure wish fulfillment? A true escapist
fantasy: escaping the human condition? Is it in recognizing the actual abundance in
nature? Is it found the cliché’ “If
something sounds too good to be true…it probably is.” Does the song make a mark of you? In the
tradition of Fairy tales, does it serve to be a warning for children,
for teenagers and dreamers?
The lesser known last verse reveals the cautionary nature
of the song. Originally the song described a
child being recruited into hobo life by tales of the "Big Rock Candy
Mountain." McClintock sanitized the song considerably from the version he
sang as a street busker in the 1890s. When he
appeared in court as part of a copyright dispute, he cited the original words
of the song, the last stanza of which was:
The punk rolled up his big blue eyes
And said to the jocker, "Sandy,
I've hiked and hiked and wandered too,
But I ain't seen any candy.
I've hiked and hiked till my feet are sore
And I'll be damned if I hike any more
To be buggered sore like a hobo's whore
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains."
You can see more on my website: http://ratray.com/recent-work.html
These will be on view at the Distillery in south Boston as part of the show "wish you were there."
WISH YOU WERE THERE
The title of the show is a riff on Pink Floyd’s 1975 album Wish You Were Here. That seminal album was composed of songs that expressed loss and disenchantment, much of which was directly about the absence and tragic life of Syd Barrett. Wish You Were There was chosen because of its power to suggest the past tense, alluding to an event that once was. Perhaps an event that was missed can never truly be understood or appreciated by the absent individual(s). The collective works in this exhibition strive to re-create or examine a shared experience that is hard to quantify or represent. These experiences all come from populist events such as: live music, theatre, film and sporting events.
Featuring:
David Armacost
Melanie Bernier
Jason Kalogiros
Middle Kingdom
Okay Mountain
Rhonda Ratray
David Armacost
Melanie Bernier
Jason Kalogiros
Middle Kingdom
Okay Mountain
Rhonda Ratray
Organized by Jack W Schneider
Show Dates: February 5 – March 12, 2016
Reception: Saturday, February 6, 7-9 PM
Reception: Saturday, February 6, 7-9 PM
at The Distillery http://distillerygallery.com/visit/
516 East 2nd Street, South Boston, MA 02127
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Right meow!
New tea towels in the KITCHEN! available in my ETSY shop : snakeEYES https://www.etsy.com/listing/266013829/gato-tea-towel
PRINT show Benefit
Miracle Heart fortune Teller 2015 Rhonda Ratray
Jill Van Orden, Kristen Blaker http://www.kristenbstudio.com/ and Rhonda Ratray are presenting a collection of prints at Kevins in North Bennington for the month of February. 1/2 of the proceeds will benefit the Village School of North Bennington.
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