Ochi is pleased to present Metallic sea, an exhibition of sculptures by Los Angeles-based artist Fay Ray. Metallic sea will be on view in the project gallery at Ochi, located at 119 Lewis Street in Ketchum, Idaho, from November 21, 2025, through January 23, 2026.

Fay Ray fuses machined aluminum, polished stainless steel, and carved stone into suspended constellations that hold equal measures of gravity and grace. Drawing from the landscape of the California desert and the physical language of labor, Ray transforms hard materials into meditative structures that feel at once ancient and newly forged. Her compositions—chains and medallions, loops and fragments—hang in deliberate tension, their balance suggesting a choreography between body and object, stillness and movement, the earthly and the celestial.

Ray’s practice is shaped by a dialogue between personal inheritance and broader histories of abstraction and ritual. Raised in a multigenerational trucking family in the Mojave Desert, she brings to her work an intuitive understanding of scale, gravity, and endurance. Echoes of modernist minimalism intersect with the devotional architectures of Mesoamerica, feminist craft, and the cyclical systems of the natural world. Each sculpture carries these layered lineages forward, merging industrial and hand fabrication with a spiritual sense of care and calibration. Hovering between monument and offering, Ray continues her exploration of how objects become vessels for veneration and transformation.