Todd Gray: Portals at Perrotin Los Angeles presents new photographic assemblages by the LA-based artist (b. 1954), juxtaposing European formal gardens and Renaissance interiors with West African landscapes and material remains of colonial power and slavery. The works articulate Black presence in the Atlantic world as a simultaneous experience of seeing and being, of witnessing and participating in the ongoing currents of history. The exhibition coincides with the unveiling of Gray's monumental LACMA commission, Octavia's Gaze, for the new David Geffen Galleries.
