Cameron Gray (Kunst)

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SEDUCTION: The Allure of Flowers...

Born in 1974 in Anaheim, California, Cameron Gray lives and works in Los Angeles. Prior to his entrance into the L.A. art scene, Gray owned his own animation studio and worked as an Animation Director for films like Apocalypto, Underworld: Evolution, Sky Captain, the World of Tomorrow and multiple videos for the band, Tool.

In Gray’s most recent body of work, he addresses politics, religion, ideology, nature, commerce, media and the human propensity for violence with a set of photo-montages and paintings that are painstaking assemblages of “mini-tableaux,” cleverly put together to form magnificent portraits, landscapes and iconic subjects. He does this by employing a most unique method of digital, network manufacturing.

Cameron’s works begins as digital studies, which are divided into hundreds of small pieces. The photo-montage works are done in editions of 10; no two being exactly alike. To create his paintings, Cameron develops an idea and then chooses both personal images and photos he compiles from various public sites on the internet to complete his vision for the work. Each one of the images he selects plays a vital and thematic role in the depiction of the larger image. He then sends the photographs to a group of artists composed of personal associates, professional colleagues and Internet correspondents to paint small oil paintings of the photographs. Finally, Cameron assembles the “mini-tableaux” into remarkable works of art that resemble a kind of contemporary impressionism. By breaking the painting down into a grid of pixels, outsourcing the work and building each painting from several smaller paintings, Gray builds a virtual factory by way of the Internet to achieve his artistic intent.

Cameron Gray

Solo Exhibitions
2010
POP!, Galerie Maximillian, Aspen, CO
2009
White Lies for Dark Times, Galerie Maximillian, Aspen, CO
Pop, Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris
You Get What you Deserve, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008
We are All Doomed, Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Enjoy It While you Can as Yarg Normac, Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Mise en Scene, Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Group Exhibitions
2011 Seduction: The Allure of Flowers, Aspen, CO
2009 Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Art Fair Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
25th Anniversary Show, Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA
Show & Tell: The Art of Language” Zimmer Children’s Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Photo Miami, Miami, FL
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Change America, Robert Berman, Los Angeles, CA
PULSE New York, New York, NY
Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Steinweiss, Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Show and Tell: Art of Vision,Zimmer Children’s Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Slideshow, curated by Brad Benedict, Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Venice Art Walk,Venice, CA
Light of Hope, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2007 Venice Anti-Art Walk, Venice, CA
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