Cameron Gray
Mise en Scene
October 13 - November 3, 2007

Selected works

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The Man, 2006, Oil on wood tiles, 62.5 x 38.5 inches	detail
Tree Of Singularity, 2006, Oil on wood tiles, 100 x 87 inches	detail
Broccoli, 2007, Oil on wood, 47.5 x 42 inches	detail
Continuum, 2007, Oil on canvas on wood tiles, 43.5 x 43 inches	detail
The Pornification of the Mainstream, 2007, Digital Study	detail
Eat Me, 2007, Oil on canvas on wood tiles, 75 x 52.5 inches	detail
She Doesn't Care, 2007, Oil on wood tiles, 100 x 87 inches	detail
Wheatpaste King (Shepard Fairey), 2007, Oil on canvas on wood tiles 43.5 x 32 inches	detail
Three Lincolns, 2007, Oil on canvas glued to canvas, 28 x 22.5 inches
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Born
1974 in Anaheim, California. 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 and the World of Tomorrow and multiple videos for the band, Tool. Gray has been working on this series of paintings for the past two years.
His work begins as digital studies, which are divided into hundreds of small pieces and then sent out to a group of artists composed of personal associates, professional colleagues and Internet correspondents. By breaking the painting down into a grid of pixels and outsourcing the work, Gray builds a virtual factory by way of the Internet. This modern approach is used to create the appearance of a traditional oil painting. Like photo mosaics, these paintings exist on two visual levels. Each painting is comprised of several smaller paintings. These secondary paintings of hamburgers,french fries, traffic and smog combine to form larger compositions.
Subject matter ranges from portraits of Jesus, Phil Spector, Shepard Fairy and Brittney Spears to landscapes, bomb flares, and vegetables. The smaller images used are thematic and play a vital role in the depiction of the larger image. Through issues of perception, Gray addresses politics, religion, ideology, nature, commerce, media and our propensity for violence.