Afrotronic 8409 by Todd Gray (2011), 1AP

Todd Gray (b. 1954)Afrotronic 8409, 2011Limited EditionArchival inkjet print20 x 16 in | 50.8 x 40.6 cm1APSigned with pencil on verso at bottom left and numbered at bottom right.Hand-signed by Artist | UnframedLos 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.His 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 d