Kevin Francis Gray
b. 1972 in Tupeloe, Northern Island,UK
Lives and works in London, UK
Kevin Francis Gray has generated bodies of work which address the complex relationship between abstraction and figuration.
Working in a range of media—from bronze and marble to cast resin—the artist’s techniques and modes of representation have varied, with Gray moving from figures in highly polished finishes to those with rough-hewn surfaces. Rather than working toward ideals of beauty or memorial, Gray attends to the psychological affects of his subjects, often relying on textural surfaces rather than facial or bodily postures to convey mental states.
His work has been included in exhibitions at the Royal Academy, London, UK; Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art of the Val de-Marne, Paris, France; Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam; Palazzo Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy; Musee d’art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France; ARTIUM, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel; and Art Space, New York, USA.
