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The Los Angeles—based artist makes use of humor, provocative subject matter, and surprising distortions of scale, and frequently involves the human body as a central element in his work. He began using himself as a subject in projects while still a student, as in a sculpture from in which he pinned his own body to a gallery wall with a large wooden plank; in a performance, he hung from a tree limb.

At once prepubescent and adult, familiar and enigmatic, innocent and perverse, Boy unsettles our sense of space and subjectivity. Charles Ray born is a Los Angeles—based American sculptor. He is known for his strange and enigmatic sculptures that draw the viewer's perceptual judgments into question in jarring and unexpected ways.

In , Christopher Knight in the Los Angeles Times wrote that Ray's "career as an artist…is easily among the most important of the last twenty years.

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View the full Wikipedia entry. Accessed January 31, Ray interjects feelings of unrest into his seemingly quiet Minimalist work, substances such as ink or Pepto-Bismol, which if touched by the viewer, disturb the piece. Ray is also known for his unsually large works, for example, his monochrome replica of a crashed car, his big toy firetruck, and his 8-foot woman mannequin.

American architect, New York City.