Remnants: Works by Kevin Q. Gray
July 30 – September 17
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 30, 4-6 pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, August 27, 1 pm
Sponsored by Roxbury Wine & Spirits and Margaretville Telephone Company
The Opening Reception and Artist Talk are free and open to the public
The works in this exhibition are an exploration of memory and what it means to remember, as well as an index of what is left when someone is lost.
Exhibiting artist Kevin Q. Gray’s mother died from cancer in 2011, and for four years he found himself unable to open and re-investigate the contents of a large antique chest where she had placed the various, most prized possession from throughout her life. His relationship with her was complicated during his adulthood, but one thing they always shared was a love for the outdoors and particularly, waterfalls. The wet-plate tintypes in this exhibition depict objects from within the chest, photographed in the site-specific location of Plattekill Falls and ‘cleansed’ with the water from the falls before the picture was taken. Also in the exhibit are cyanotypes of manipulated family photographs mounted on sheets from one of his mother’s scrapbooks that was in the chest.
Kevin Q. Gray is a fine art photographer living in upstate New York. His work spans digital, film, and alternative photographic processes such as dry-plate tintypes, wet-plate photography, and emulsion lifts. He received a BFA in Photography and Painting from Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY, and an MFA in Visual Arts from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. Much of Kevin’s work is based on nature and the landscape, but he also creates work that explores notions of nostalgia, memory, and history. Kevin lives in Cherry Valley with his wife and a myriad of domesticated animals.
The Roxbury Arts Group’s 2016 Gallery Series is sponsored by Roxbury Wine & Spirits and Margaretville Telephone Company. All programs offered by the Roxbury Arts Group in 2016 are supported by the A. Lindsay and Olive B. O’Connor Foundation, the Robinson-Broadhurst Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the NYS Legislature, Robert & Nellie Gipson, 2016 Season Sponsor WIOX Community Radio 91.3 FM, and by the generosity of business sponsors and individual donors like you.