Georgia Gardner Gray (born 1988 in New York City, lives and works in
Berlin) works mainly in the medium of
painting,
but always presents her paintings in correspondence with objects. In her
colourful works, Georgia Gardner Gray reflects codes of behaviour based on
the characters on the canvas and questions social conventions. Her works
are in the tradition of classical genre painting because she paints
everyday scenes and confronts them with contemporary lifestyles of
different characters such as punks, groupies or street musicians. In her
works, Georgia Gardner Gray also negotiates hierarchies between the
sexes, male and female vices and actually fixed role assignments.
The artist conveys the unconventional attitude of the Bohemians as
exemplary for the current development of a society that prefers
experimental forms of life and operates with the ambivalence between
self-determination, attitude and freedom.
