Ӱ Professor Emeritus Todd Gray at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Ӱ Photography Professor Emeritus has a solo show at the in Hartford, Connecticut. The exhibition —which opened on March 4, 2021 and will run through July 18, 2021—was curated by Patricia Hickson. As of the Los Angeles Times writes in her article , “In these works, imperial gardens are turned on their side and embedded alongside photos of wetlands in Nigeria and a grove of palms in Ghana. Photographs of European statues are turned upside down and shown alongside a ghostly Nigerian Eyo. Ships — those great conveyers of exploration and the slave trade — intrude on the landscape. These are worlds turned upside down, then spun right side up again.” The show also features Gray’s largest piece to date (at 34 feet long!), entitled (2021). As Miranda writes, “The work is history writ in visceral, photographic form: the landscapes that fed the slave trade are juxtaposed with the people who amassed wealth from it, along with the ghosts that remain.”
Congratulations, Professor Gray, on the amazing and beautiful work!
