Ragna Bley

Ragna Bley

BornNationalityBased In
1986SwedishOslo
Biography

Ragna Bley (b. 1986, Uppsala, Sweden) is an artist based in Oslo working with painting, sculpture, text and performance. She explores the oscillation between the familiar and alien, looking to narratives within biology, literature and science-fiction. Bley’s colours vacillate over the surface and seep into the canvas, intermixing like currents and creating infinite possibilities of grouping and regrouping form. Through this process, Bley traverses the relationship between abstraction and representation. She creates layers and transparencies that hint at familiar shapes and organic matter, though the visual associations that arise from Bley’s paintings are completely individual - and may at times resemble forms that are imperceptible to humans. Certain areas of Bley’s canvases are painted, while some are left bare, alluding to the instability of images, and more broadly, to the slippages between our frameworks of understanding. ...

Selected Artworks
Low Sky Calling
Ragna Bley
Low Sky Calling, 2022
250 x 375cm
Scent of Water
Ragna Bley
Scent of Water, 2022
250 x 380cm
Aerolith, Dusk
Ragna Bley
Aerolith, Dusk, 2022
212 x 118cm
Tender Tender
Ragna Bley
Tender Tender, 2022
212 x 118cm
Peripheral Bruise
Ragna Bley
Peripheral Bruise, 2022
212 x 115cm
Enter, Erase
Ragna Bley
Enter, Erase, 2022
212 x 118cm
Moon Catch
Ragna Bley
Moon Catch, 2022
212 x 118cm
Phantom Fold
Ragna Bley
Phantom Fold, 2022
212 x 120cm
Dice
Catch
La Belle Epoque
Ragna Bley
La Belle Epoque, 2022
215 x 375cm
Drive
Ragna Bley
Drive, 2023
155 x 145cm
Catch
Gallery Representation
Awards
Norwegian Arts Council2020
Norwegian Arts Council2020
Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond2016
Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond2016
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