Amber Ray

Amber Ray’s pageantry is reminiscent of many iconic genres of the past and present and a major force in the evolving future culture of popular art.

Her chameleonic qualities measure vast differences and are sure to startle with grace, confrontation and fantastical flamboyance. She embodies the dream of other mythical worlds, reavealing her stature as a provacative exotic creature. Known for her many charactarized adventures based on collaborations with style makers such as Anti-gravity, Susanne Bartsch, Thierry Mugler, ChiCHI Valenti and Johnney Dynell of Jackie 60 Fame, and a thrivingly talented New York City Performance community composed of the freak chic, theater, fashion world, and burlesque.

You will find her most often musing the masses through various stage productions, art installations, sitting for severly talented painters, photograpers and designers as well as dazzling at High end events to which she ardently shares her love of style, luster, and her brand of spiritual artistic expression of the whimsical and the real. Amber Ray is an artist, costume designer, singer, entertainer and all around creative force of nature residing in NYC.

Brace Yourself for her power-packed manifestations of absolute fabulousness

“…Creative Sexpot…” -Ny Magazine
“My favorite model, Amber Ray, is a veritable chameleon….” -Molly Crabapple for Village voice interview
“Amber Ray, Dressed as an orange and black butterfly, did not enter (the costume contest),but should have won every costume contest in town. on all four days. Someone give her something.” -Tricia Romano, Village Voice
“Sultry Burlesque Vixen…” -Java Magazine, Amy Young, Pheonix
“…A coffin painted by Poison’s Rikki Rocket (used to dramatic effect by Burlesque vamp Amber Ray durring a live strip tease that included blood, glitter and a human chandelier (Muffinhead). Deathrocks flair for the theatrical never dies, does it?” -Lina Lecaro, LA Weekly
“A mini-malitia of flamboyant performers has taken ahold of the floorboards,armed with outlandish themes, extroardary costumes and performances that leave the most jaded hipsters with mouth agape. Astonishingly, this battilion of BQ bad-asses all live in the heart and mind of one woman: Amber Ray. Since her arrival in NY 2 years ago, Amber Ray has become one of the most inventive and prolific performers in the burlesque and fetish scenes…” -Kara Mae, Tease Magazine, issue #9 (6 page feature on AR titled “Genius in a G-string”)
You can find me doing shows, performance, modeling and being walking art at Fancy places, and even selling my fabulous flower clips and other misc. accoutrements. Sometimes I’ll also be in Magazines, books and Newspapers, and Cameos on Cable & Network TV.

“A burlesque butterfly with bright, luminous wings; Amber travels the world with her brand of “Professional Sensationalism”.

A beauty who creates beauty – you can always rely on Amber to create something colourful, sensual and inviting. Described by Molly Crabapple as a “veritable chameleon,” Amber is equally capable of playing the diva, the siren, a spirit of nature, the clown or the outright bizarre.

Amber also fashions beautiful costumes, headdresses and hair ornaments, and can often be found proudly selling her creations to burlesque festival-goers before thrilling them on-stage in the evenings.

With such an eye-catching presence and zest for life, it is no surprise that artists, photographers and publications are eager to immortalise her…”
- 21st Century Pin up Blog Amber Ray # 13 in top 50 burlesque performers in the world 2009

“Amber’s costumes are always gorgeously colourful and embellished, but in 2010 we think she really surpassed herself. At BHoF in June she competed with her Lotus Blossom act, which she performed again at the New York Burlesque Festival. The costume is just beautiful – the lotus petal bra, the flower and feather tasselled headdress, the sheer pink robe concealing it all from view… All the little details and soft feminine layers and colours make it a fantastical feast for the eyes, with Princess Amber in the centre, rotating beguilingly on her lotus flower.

A beauty who creates beauty – you can always rely on Amber to create something bright, sensual and inviting…”
-21st Century Pin Up Blog #17 in the top 50 burlesque stars in the world 2010