Eleanor Ray's Miniature Paintings Reinterpret Donald Judd's Soho Studio at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects

Eleanor Ray's exhibition at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects features postcard-sized oil paintings depicting Donald Judd's former Soho studio at 101 Spring Street, now a museum. The works, characterized by muted pastel tones and impressionistic soft-focus, engage provocatively with Judd's minimalist doctrines through their intimate scale and attention to architectural detail. Nora Griffin's catalogue essay notes these realist paintings effectively communicate abstraction. The show includes pieces like '101 Spring Street, 2014' (6 x 8 inches) and runs through December 24 at 208 Forsyth Street in New York City. Ray's paintings discover reductive purity in architectural elements like sills, panes, and intersecting planes, which echo Judd's modalities while cohabiting with Hopperesque atmospherics. The artist's precise brushwork and miniaturist precision contrast with the soft-focus aesthetic, creating works that challenge minimalist strictures through loving attention to mimetic and climatic details such as shadows on walls.