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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Come see this piece at Wickford Art Association in Wickford, RI from May 29-Jun 28, with an opening on May 29 from 5-7 pm!

A 12" square painting with many small items glued to it mosaic-style. A strip at the top of the painting is white, with all white and transparent items; the rest is blue, with areas that have a green background and show the original color of the items. The painting includes pens and pencils, resin scraps with a hexagonal tiled pattern, and a candy wrapper chain.

Wickford Art Association
36 Beach Street * NK * RI
Outside the Lines
Avant Garde & Abstract
Juror, Michael Rose

Opening Reception
May 29 from 5-7 pm
On exhibit May 29-June 28, 2026

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Coming soon at ArtsWorcester -- selected by some wicked smart high school students!

Change, a juried exhibition produced and juried by the Future Arts Workers. On View May 20-June 21. Public reception: Wednesday, May 20, 6-8 pm. ArtsWorcester, 44 Portland Street, Worcester MA.

A mixed media assemblage on a square piece of plywood. The piece is mostly yellow, with a grid of multicolored foam circles. One circle is decorated to look like a happy face.

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is a sign...to see my work at a new show at Hunchback Gallery! Opening May 7, 6-9 pm, on view until June 13.

Split screen. Screen 1: A bright orange potato chip and apple, and a fork. Screen 2: a close-up of a red and blue painting with beads glued to it saying "are you positive", "but", and "how can we know".

My art is part of This is a Sign Exhibition opening May 7 on view through June 13 - Hunchback Gallery - 75 Webster St, Worcester hunchbackgallery.com

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

These two pieces will be going up at Aplomb Gallery in Dover, NH! Opening May 1 at 5:30 pm.

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I put together this page for Punkcake Independent Publishing's latest release, Punkcake Zines Volume 9! Get the full zine here: www.punkcake.org/store/p/punk... And please let me know if you make my beans!

Recipe card with block printed beans and can.
2-3 Tbsp rendered bacon fat, olive oil, or butter
1 onion, finely diced or pureed (or 1/2 tsp onion powder)
1 clove garlic, minced (or 1/2 tsp garlic powder)
1 Tbsp tomato paste (optional)
1 tsp vegetable, beef, or chicken bouillon paste, such as Better Than Bouillon (optional)
1 Tbsp smoked paprika
2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp dried basil
1/2 tsp oregano, preferably Mexican
Generous pinch ancho or cayenne chili powder
Pepper to taste
Salt to taste
1-2 Tbsp maple syrup or brown sugar (optional)
Two 15-ounce cans pinto, kidney, or black beans
1/4 cup bourbon whiskey, brandy, or beer
1 tsp lime juice

Heat fat in a heavy-bottomed pot. If using fresh onion and garlic, sweat them.
If using tomato paste and/or bouillon paste, cook out.
Add spices and herbs and warm until fragrant, about a minute.
Deglaze with alcohol. Pour beans, including bean canning liquid, into the pot. Reduce until bean liquid is thickened to close to desired consistency.
Stir in lime juice just after removing from heat. The beans will thicken as they cool. You can mash the beans with a fork or potato masher if yo`u prefer a smoother texture.

Punkcake zine cover. Black ink on pink. Travis, one of the zine editors, being hit in the face with a cupcake.

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Cut It Out Paper, clipper and razor blades, and acrylic on canvas I cut my own hair and shave with safety razors, the most economical option. I never know whether I'm practicing a noble asceticism or treating myself as though I have no value. I made Cut It Out to explore this ambivalence.

A square, gridlike composition of Wahl clipper blades and mixed brands of double-sided razor blades on a background of clipper instructions and razor blade wrappers. Rustlike orange paint mars the grid.

A close-up showing the red edges of the canvas

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Community Trash 27 2026 Mixed media art waste (acrylic, paper, beads) on canvas For number 27 I did something I very rarely do: add text. Specifically, spelling out snippets of phrases that repeat in my head when I'm anxious. #relatable?

A mixed media collage on canvas. The main colors are red and blue, exploding out from the center. Beads with letters on them spell "WHAT IF YOU'RE WRONG / BUT / MAYBE / BUT / ARE YOU POSITIVE / BUT / HOW CAN WE KNOWWEKNOWWEKNOWWEKNOW..."

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Community Trash 26 - made this one for a Secret Santa!

A square abstract art piece, blue at the edges and turning green in the middle. It has many pieces of art waste -- pens, brushes, scraps of material and jewelry -- attached to it.

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Disco Objects (Compulsion), 2025 Origami paper, papier-mache, acrylic, and mirror tile Modular origami and ‘disco objects’ (unconventionally shaped objects with reflective finishes) have long been two of my less serious creative hobbies. Every winter since I was a child, I’ve found myself (cont'd)

A stellated icosahedron covered in silver mirror tile

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Community Trash #25 (Black Rose) Mixed media art waste (acrylic, spray paint, plastic and wood detritus) on canvas This one is so called because I accidentally made it a similar color scheme to the Thin Lizzy album cover of the same name by Jim Fitpatrick.

An abstract painting on canvas. The background is blue and the foreground is deep purple, dimensional swirls and speckles of red-painted art trash.

Thin Lizzy's Black Rose album cover, which is an illustration of a black rose with red blood drops on it -- a similar color scheme to the trash painting

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Community Trash #24 (Harvey), 2025 Mixed media art waste (acrylic, paper towel, foam) on reclaimed plywood This one is a nod to Harvey Ball, a Worcester local and the inventor of the happy face. Happy new year 🙂

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Community Trash #23, 2025 Mixed media art waste (acrylic, paper towel, paint tubes, brushes, pens/pencils) on canvas I made this as a "baby sibling" to that big paint tube piece I finished earlier this year!

A mixed media assemblage on a rectangular canvas. The background is half purple and half multicolor paper towel. Paint tubes, paint brushes, and pens/pencils are arranged in a gridlike pattern on top.

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Community Trash #22 (FUCK), 2025 Mixed media art waste (laser cut wood, silk flowers, polyfill, miniature supplies) on reclaimed plywood You could say I really gave a fuck with this one. Last chance to catch this and/or many other trash paintings at Hunchback Gallery's Off the Wall show thru Dec 27!

A square assemblage. A cluster of trash bursts out at the center, while a ring of the word FUCK cut out of small pieces of wood and painted blue and green expands outward over a red background.

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Community Trash #21, 2025 Mixed media art waste (paper towel, wood, metal) on poplar This one uses clay tools from a stranger on Buy Nothing, popsicle sticks and scrap from Technocopia members, and paper towel from my oil painter friend Sophie Pearson. Catch it at Hunchback Gallery through Dec 27!

A rectangular assemblage with a paint-stained paper towel background and a cluster of wooden and metal clay tools and popsicle sticks in the foreground.

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Community Trash #20, 2025 Mixed media art waste (acrylic, tongue depressors, paper towel) on reclaimed plywood The tongue depressors and acrylic pouring overpour are both from Diamond Hearts Art Studio (diamondheartsartstudio.com), where I had my solo wall at the beginning of the year!

A square multimedia assemblage. The background is blue, with a paint-covered paper towel, paint-dipped tongue depressors, and runoff from acrylic paint pouring over top.

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Community Trash #12, 2025 I like the plywood stamp showing through on this one. Catch this and/or many other trash paintings at Hunchback Gallery's Off the Wall show through December 27!

A square multimedia assemblage. Red and green tissue paper and rhinestones, pieces of mirror, and assorted arts trash partially cover the plywood base, on which the plywood product information is still partly visible.

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

A change of plans left me alone today, so I cooked exactly what I wanted for dinner and nothing else

A plate of cranberry sauce, cheddar, St Andre, cranberry Wensleydale, and gluten-free yeasted rolls with butter and apple butter

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

That cactus sure can thanksgiving

A Thanksgiving cactus blooming with flaming pink flowers

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Trash Painting #12.5, 2023 Waste acrylic on reclaimed plywood panel This is an older one -- I realized when doing inventory for a smalls show that I never took a picture of it. And yes, it is 12.5 because I forgot about it originally but wanted the series to stay in numerical order!

A tall, narrow, small abstract red and purple painting on a piece of plywood.

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Finally got around to taking pictures of the miniature I assembled from a kit earlier this year!

A 1:12 scale miniature of a patio cluttered with plants and gardening implements

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Community Trash #19, 2025 Discarded paint, used brushes, and PVA glue on reclaimed wood panel This is one of my favorites yet! A companion to my grid of empty paint tubes, here's one with a bunch of old, messed-up paintbrushes.

A square wooden assemblage. The background is navy fading into a bright lime green center. Broken, dirty paintbrushes are arranged in a ring that extends beyond the edges of the background.

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Community Trash #18, 2025 Mixed media art trash on previously painted canvas For this piece, I saved a lot of the whole/finished pieces of art I wound up with in my trash collection -- my friend Sophie Pearson's old painting, a half-finished portrait from my husband, my own rejected block prints.

A large-scale collage on canvas featuring art trash and several smaller pieces of art such as failed prints, paintings on mini canvases and Shrinky Dinks. The color scheme is white and dark red with hints of pink and green. Kiwi cross section block prints appear across the piece.

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

My birthday party theme this year was Ray’s Famous Food Fuck-Ups. I remade many foods I fucked up over the past 30 years. These are the stories of those foods.

Sweet Potato Gnocchi
YEAR: ca. 2004
Fuck-up: Didn’t boil sweet potatoes
My mom asked my dad, who is not known for his cooking skill or experience, to make dinner one night because she was going to be busy. I helped.
We scrutinized the steps of the recipe closely, but we missed one important detail: the ingredient list called for boiled sweet potatoes. We went through the entire recipe using raw sweet potatoes.
At the end, we were surprised to be left with gobs of dough full of crunchy potato chunks instead of pillowy gnocchi.

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Community Trash #16 (silver) and #17 (gold), 2025 Mixed media art waste from friends and community members These bad boys are mostly jewelry scraps with some spray paint, acrylic, and a bit of metal leaf. And yes, they are heavy!

A vertical rectangular wall assemblage of paint and jewelry on canvas. The jewelry and some of the paint are silver, and the rest is splotches of dark green.

A vertical rectangular wall assemblage of paint and jewelry on canvas. The jewelry and some of the paint are gold, and the rest is splotches of dark green.

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Community Trash #15, 2025 Mixed media art waste from friends and community members Got a little gay with this trash painting. Lots of supplies kindly donated by Technocopia folks in this one. Close observers may also note a rejected high-vis hot dog prototype from my sculpture Safe Foods!

A vertical rectangular wall assemblage made of arts-related trash. The top half of the assemblage is vertical rainbow stripes and the bottom half is painted solid white.

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Community Trash #5 will be on view at Artisans Asylum in Boston, MA starting Nov 8! Can't wait to see the other pieces in this show all about art process and iterative work.

A close-up of a blue and green multimedia assemblage with cardboard, pens, and bits of plastic

Gallery A2 Iterations Perseverance of Craft
Exhibition on view: 11/8/2025-11/18/2026
Opening Reception: Friday 11/14/2025 7-9 pm

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Community Trash #13 will be on view at The James Library & Center for the Arts in Norwell, MA starting October 17!

A rectangular art assemblage made of art trash, mostly discarded beads and pieces of jewelry. Most of the piece is bright yellow, but a triangular strip passes through the middle where the background is purple and the trash is unpainted.

The James Library & Center for the Arts' Fall Juried Art Show
Exhibition Dates October 17-November 22
Opening Reception October 17 6-8 pm

Juried by Nancy McCarthy, Prof at Mass College of Art and Design and co-founder of Black Pond

Showcasing the best of local and regional art

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

These two gory pieces are going up as part of a Halloween show at @hunchbacktravis.bsky.social's Hunchback Gallery starting October 9! Opening 6-9 on the 9th (Thursday), come see them and the rest of the creepy art through November 1. #horrorart #gore

A relief sculpture of torn-open purple intestines. Plastic breads and pastries spill out onto pale papier-mâché flesh.

A relief painting of a surreal wound. Pale, bruised skin is torn open to reveal an oozing mass of pills and rhinestones. A smaller wound has been closed with stitches, and blood-stained bandaids speckle the edges of the skin.

Hunchback Gallery presents Creepin' It Real!
A Halloween-inspired group show
October 9-November 1, Fridays & Saturdays, noon-6 pm.
Hunchback Gallery, 75 Webster Street, 2nd floor, Worcester

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Gluten free challah came out a lot better this year!

Pomegranate arils, apple slices, wildflower honey in a plastic bear, and homemade gf challah on a plastic cutting board

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

At Worcester Pride moments before torrential rainfall…

KC and Ray, a transmasculine couple, posing in front of a giant fake brick on a city street

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Pics from my and KC's vacation to Mount Desert Island a few weeks ago. We accidentally timed it so we were going north just before the heat wave...thank goodness.

A mauve and apricot sunset from a mountain road, with a car pulled off on the shoulder and pine trees to either side

A blue sky over a mauve and apricot sunset from a mountain road, with a car pulled off on the shoulder and pine trees to either side

KC smiling at the camera at the top of a mountain, with islands in the ocean behind him.

A sunset on a rocky beach with pine trees to one side

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

It's based on this painting, mostly the red/blue part in the middle! That sounds like a fun project.

A 24" by 36" multimedia painting. The background is green with red and blue spilled over it. The bottom half is full of paint-splotched art trash -- empty paint tubes, paper towels, gloves, bits of foam, and so forth, which spill upwards through the composition.

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Community Trash #14, 2025 Mixed media art waste on wood panel

A square wooden assemblage covered in art-based trash, including jewelry scraps, pens and pencils, and 3d printing offcuts. The edges of the assemblage are painted black. The background fades into orange at the center, leaving the trash itself exposed there.

A close-up of the center of the assemblage, showing pens, a resin dome with an orchid flower inside, a plastic fish, and a small CA glue tube.

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Community Trash #13, 2025 Mixed media art waste on canvas This piece uses primarily jewelry scraps left over from Floppy Cat Creations (floppycatcreations.com), who buys lots of used jewelry to use as elements in their Stitchpunks soft sculptures. Thank you for sharing your trash!

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Community Trash #9 2025 Mixed media art waste on plywood

A small rectangular purple art assemblage made from art-related trash. Multiple heart-shaped objects and a big piece of yellow foam poke out of the purple paint.

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Felt, I am checking on my microgreens FREQUENTLY

Tiny arugula plants sprouting from a black 10x20" plant flat

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Community Trash #7 For my 'Community Trash' series, I collect discarded or unwanted materials from friends, family, and community members: . For Community Trash #7, I collected empty and dried-out paint tubes -- my own, my friends', and strangers' -- over about a one-year period.

A large assemblage on a rectangular piece of wood. Empty paint tubes are arranged in a regular horizontal/vertical pattern, with different colored rectangles behind each tube.

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Not All Trash (Pink) 2025 Mixed media art waste (including markers, paint tubes, plastic, and resin), acrylic, and watercolor on reclaimed plywood panel This is technically not a trash painting within my framework, despite really looking like one, because it has new, non-waste paint on it!

A 6" square wall panel covered in trash. Some of the trash is inherently pink (markers, paint tubes) and some of it is painted pink.

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Trash Painting #15 2025 Waste acrylic and glitter glue on reclaimed wood panel This trash painting uses leftover paint from a swatch test and glitter glue that arrived half-dried because the seal was broken.

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Community Trash #10 2025 Mixed media art waste from friends and community members (including watercolor, resin, wood, and jewelry scraps) on clayboard

A 3 x 5" blue, white, and yellow assemblage on an clayboard panel. Scraps of material are glued to it, including wire, a transparent resin outlet plate, and a dangling chain with a silver bead on the end.

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Community Trash #6 2024-2025 Mixed media art waste from friends and community members (including watercolor, fabric paint, spray paint, PVA glue, resin, wood, and plaster) on extruded polystyrene foam and wood

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Community Trash #5, 2024. Mixed media art waste from friends and community members on previously used wood panel.

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Ray Bernoff @rmhbernoff.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Community Trash #11 (Debutante) For this Community Trash piece, I took inspiration from Constance Bigelow’s “1945 Debutante”. Unlike the traditional materials and apparent purity of Bigelow’s portrait, my piece is made with objects that have been cast aside – the most impure thing of all, trash.

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