Charles LeDray

Peter Freeman, Inc. is pleased to present American artist Charles LeDray’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, comprised of nine new sculptures and drawings made in New York, primarily over the last three years.

Shiner

S.A.M.

Spool’n: How My Mother’s Embroidered Apron Unfolds in My Life[1]

Revolution

Men Man Woman Women

Backward Suit

Hope Chest

Cone Cube Sphere

Briefs

How Long Should Memories Last?

Charles LeDray uses a multitude of techniques including carving, casting, drawing, painting, printmaking, sewing, and throwing. The artist recreates existing objects, transforming them through uncanny manipulations of scale and re-combinations that suggest narratives about history and society.

Here, containers – from pockets, to pallets, cigar boxes, chests, and vitrines – hold collections of individualized yet related objects: things we amass to remember, or to project who we are, where we have been, need, or want to go.

Born in Seattle in 1960, Charles LeDray moved to New York in 1989 and has exhibited regularly since 1991.

LeDray’s work is in numerous public collections including The Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Art; and Smithsonian Museum of American Art.

1 - Arshile Gorky, How My Mother’s Embroidered Apron Unfolds in My Life, 1944, oil on canvas, 40 x 45 inches (101.6 x 114.5 cm). Collection Seattle Art Museum.