Anne Bray

{{Short description|American artist}}

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| caption = Anne Bray in Hollywood, March 2017

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| field = Video art

| training = UCLA
Colgate University

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| website = {{URL|www.annebray.com}}

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Anne Bray is an American artist. Using video, audio, slides, 3-D screens, sculpture, and performance, Bray "spectacularizes still unresolved conflicts about the vulnerable" through temporary installations at public sites and art venues.{{cite news|last1=Looseleaf|first1=Victoria|title=It's not TV, and it's not HBO|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-nov-04-wk-arts4-story.html|access-date=11 March 2017|work=Los Angeles Times|date=November 4, 2004}}

Bray is the co-founder of Freewaves,{{Cite news|url=http://www.semissourian.com/story/1295879.html|title='New media' joins First Friday offerings|last=Sanders|first=Matt|date=2007-12-07|work=Southeast Missourian|access-date=2017-04-17}} a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization that advocates for and exhibits new, uncensored, independent media.{{cite news|last1=Senn|first1=Evan|title=Long Live L.A.: Bringing Video Art and Public Health Awareness to Mass Transit|url=https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/long-live-la-bringing-video-art-and-public-health-awareness-to-mass-transit|accessdate=11 March 2017|work=KCET|date=February 17, 2014}} Since 1989, Bray has planned the Freewaves Festival, which features independent and experimental media, that "exhibits a resistance to corporate capitalism."{{cite book|last=James|first=David|title=The Sons and Daughters of Los: Culture and Community in L.A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nu5YoI8GbsQC&q=american+film+institute+national+video+freewaves&pg=PA192|date=February 2, 2003|publisher=Temple University Press|pages=174–194|isbn=9781439901373}} In addition to other programming, each festival includes Spanish-language arts organizations and content related to African-American and Asian-American communities. As of 2017, eleven biennial festivals presenting more than 3000 artists with the partnership of 125 curators and more than 100 organizations have been held at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Getty Center, Hammer Museum, and on Hollywood and Chinatown streets. The festival is supported by National Endowment for the Arts, MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Rauschenberg Foundation, and the Warhol Foundation.{{cite news|last1=Snowden|first1=Don|title=Wave of Enthusiasm for L.A. Freewaves : Video: The second edition of the monthlong festival of independent works attracts artists from diverse backgrounds and cultures.|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-02-27-ca-1988-story.html|access-date=16 March 2017|work=Los Angeles Times|date=February 27, 1991|ref=LA Times - 1991 Freewaves}}

In 2011, in association with Freewaves, Bray launched Out the Window, a project which streamed video art on Los Angeles County bus system. Largely created by Los Angeles teenagers, animations, documentaries, narratives, and experimental videos about and in Los Angeles were presented on Transit TV. A GPS-sensitive banner image at the bottom of each screen changed to correspond to the bus location.{{cite news|last1=Wagley|first1=Catherine|title="Out the Window" Brings Art to L.A. Buses|url=http://www.laweekly.com/content/printView/2170844|accessdate=26 March 2017|work=LA Weekly|date=June 2, 2011}}

Bray served as the video art consultant on the "See Change" installation that opened in 2012 at Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport.{{Cite news|url=http://www.laweekly.com/arts/see-change-at-laxs-tom-bradley-international-terminal-a-massive-new-video-installation-2175299|title='See Change' at LAX's Tom Bradley International Terminal, a Massive New Video Installation|last=Gammon|first=Katharine|date=2012-06-14|work=L.A. Weekly|access-date=2017-04-17}}

In 2014, as part of "Out of the Window," Bray curated Long Live LA, which featured 35 videos on various health issues such as heart disease, obesity, mental health, lead exposure, and exercise. "“Our country’s public-health crisis has received a lot of attention in the traditional media... We thought that artists could bring a fresh perspective to these issues and reach people in a way that conventional public service announcements," Bray said in an interview with the Los Angeles Daily News. The videos were shown on more than 2,000 Los Angeles Metro buses across the county.{{cite news|last1=Abram|first1=Susan|title=Los Angeles rolls out public-health videos on 2,000 Metro buses|url=http://www.dailynews.com/health/20140219/los-angeles-rolls-out-public-health-videos-on-2000-metro-buses|accessdate=26 March 2017|work=Los Angeles Daily News|date=February 9, 2014}}

Bray was born in New London, Connecticut, and attended UCLA and Colgate University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cgu.edu/people/anne-bray/|title=Anne Bray - Claremont Graduate University|website=www.cgu.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2017-04-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170418000027/https://www.cgu.edu/people/anne-bray/|archive-date=2017-04-18|url-status=dead}} She has taught at universities including Cal Arts, Claremont Graduate University, and UC Santa Barbara. Her work has been exhibited and performed in New York, Milan, Montreal, Boston, and throughout Southern California.{{cite web|title=Awardee: Anne Bray|url=https://durfee.org/awardee/anne-bray/|website=durfee.org|publisher=Durfee Organization|accessdate=26 March 2017}}