TODAY, Friday, February 14 at 12 PM @friezeartfair Los Angeles Street Fair Artist Todd Gray will sign ‘Euclidean Gris Gris,’ published by @pomonacollegemuseumofart * * * * "I wanted to broaden the scope of the conceptual foundation of my thinking," Gray says in conversation with artist Carrie Mae Weems, "I wanted to create a wider opening for folks to enter into a dialogue with my work, and I wanted to use beauty as a weapon. It was important to me to explore how… European gardens developed due to riches historically acquired through the slave trade and through African colonization. We see these gardens and we don’t realize where the wealth came from to create them… I think the gardens are a way to talk about Western man's need to control nature, bodies, surroundings." @toddgrayla #toddgray #euclideangrisgris @artbookhwla #friezeartfair #friezela https://www.instagram.com/p/B8jYWc_JTGK/?igshid=4499mka5ne4s