For the past 16 years, we’ve been co-creating art and life projects that often function in response to the texts we read and to the experience of reading itself, whether on a page, sign, river bank, or street. Within that frame, our pieces function like actualized marginalia, scribed next to existing paragraphs and cultural phenomena. We make as a way of continually reshaping our approach to the mysteries and predicaments of the world. 

Anna Gray + Ryan Wilson Paulsen are two people who work together as one artistic entity. They use art as an extended form of study and a testing ground for experiments with language and sociality. Their projects are often grounded in play and in translating between text and image, expanding the linear, individual act of reading into visual, collective form.  Their work has appeared in many public places as well as at institutions such as SPACES (Cleveland, OH); Renaissance Society (Chicago, IL); Boise State University (Boise, ID); Tacoma Art Museum (Tacoma, WA); Schneider Museum of Art (Ashland, OR); Locust Projects (Miami, FL); Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (Portland, OR); and on the pages of NOON Literary Annual. The pair is based in Portland, OR and  currently represented by PDX Contemporary Art.