{"product_id":"afrotronic-8409-by-todd-gray-2012","title":"Afrotronic 8409 by Todd Gray (2011)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eTodd Gray (b. 1954)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"\u003eAfrotronic 8409\u003c\/i\u003e, 2011\u003cbr\u003eLimited Edition\u003cbr\u003eArchival inkjet print\u003cbr\u003e20 x 16 in | 50.8 x 40.6 cm\u003cbr\u003eSigned with pencil on verso at bottom left and numbered at bottom right.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003eHand-signed by Artist | Unframed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eLos Angeles based artist Todd Gray re-frames and re-contextualizes images from his personal archive that spans over forty years of his career as a photographer, sculptor and performance artist. Gray describes himself as an artist and activist who primarily focuses on issues of race, class, gender and colonialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis unique process of combining and layering a variety of images and fragments of images allows him the opportunity to create his own history and “my own position in the diaspora.” Working with photographs of pop culture, documentary photographs of Ghana (where he keeps a studio), portraits of Michael Jackson, gang members from South Los Angeles and photo documentation from the Hubble telescope, Gray asserts what he refers to as his own polymorphous identity that defies definition. Inspired by the work of cultural theorist Stuart Hall, Gray invites the viewer to participate in an “ever-unfinished conversation about identity and history.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe artist's work is included in important public collections such as the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art \/ LACMA and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles \/ MOCA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Venice Family Clinic Art Within Reach Editions were organized by artist Kim Schoenstadt and printed by Arris Editions in 2011. All proceeds benefit the Venice Family Clinic Foundation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Venice Family Clinic","offers":[{"title":"10 of 20","offer_id":45123836641480,"sku":null,"price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"1AP","offer_id":45123836674248,"sku":null,"price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"7\/20 (Framed)","offer_id":45123836707016,"sku":null,"price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"8\/20 (Framed)","offer_id":45123836739784,"sku":null,"price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0353\/7593\/files\/ToddGray_5ce1a604-fd2b-4417-a175-5ba7f6c22f9a.jpg?v=1715795190","url":"https:\/\/www.vfcshop.com\/products\/afrotronic-8409-by-todd-gray-2012","provider":"Venice Family Clinic","version":"1.0","type":"link"}