- Arango, Jorge S. “Art Review: Find Color on a Foliage Drive to Monson Arts…” October 2023
- “Still Life 1: The Big Wind” by Josh Billings, Rustica, September 2023
- Alan Bray’s Maine Magic by Ed Beem, October 2012
- Alan Bray, New Paintings at Garvey Simon, April 2014
- Wall Street International Review of Inward Maine show
- 2014 Review by Tatiana Istomina
What seems like a nice little landscape painting becomes increasingly odd the longer you look at it. [Bray] captures the enigmatic quality of the ordinary and the commonplace. And he’s so sure of himself and what he’s doing, he doesn’t have to show it off.
– Theodore Wolff, Christian Science Monitor critic
Alan Bray is the visual poet laureate of nature reclaiming central Maine even as man attempts to suburbanize it. His vision of Maine is the best and the purest I have seen.
-Edgar Allen Beem. New England Today
The best of the paintings on view are posed exactly in the midpoint between the figurative and the abstract: the regular shapes that look like Plato’s ideas of trees, logs and ponds are organized with the precision of a mathematical proposition, while a few details supplied by the artist’s sharp observation of nature link these shapes to the reality of the tangible world.
-Tatiana Istomina, 2014