Portraits

Portraits, 2018, Installation view at 313 N. Fairfax Avenue

Samita, 2018, three archival pigment prints with found and artist’s frames and UV laminate, 39 x 46 x 3.5 in

Portraits, 2018, Installation view at 313 N. Fairfax Avenue

Flora Africanus (D.C.) 2018, Two archival pigment prints in found frames and artist's frames and UV laminate, 31 1/4 x 40 x 2 in

Portraits, 2018, Installation view at 313 N. Fairfax Avenue

Purnima, 2018, three archival pigment prints in found frames and artist's frames and UV laminate, 55 x 48 x 3.5 in

Portraits, 2018, Installation view at 313 N. Fairfax Avenue

Akwidaa: Phase Patterns, Unit Structures, 2018, four archival pigments prints in artist's frames and found frames with UV laminate, 52 1/2 x 38 1/2 x 5 in

Portraits, 2018, Installation view at 313 N. Fairfax Avenue

Meliksetian Briggs, Los Angeles, CA
June 15—September 15, 2018

For this exhibition, Gray extends the visual language of his ongoing Exquisite Terribleness series, characterized by images Gray made while working for Michael Jackson as his exclusive photographer in the 1980s, offering complex representations of blackness, the African diaspora and the African landscape itself. Several of his new works include images taken during Gray’s recent stay in Italy as part of a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency. Portraits of other residency participants, writers and leaders among them, are juxtaposed with landscapes of the wilderness in South Africa and the manicured gardens of the estate in Italy as a counterpoint, provoking a critical visual dialogue.