installation view: The Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, Steve Locke, Three Deliberate Grays for Freddie (A Memorial for Freddie Gray), June 26, 2018 - January 21, 2019
"For the Façade of the Gardner Museum, former Artist-in-Residence Steve Locke created Three Deliberate Grays for Freddie (A Memorial for Freddie Gray), which addresses issues of race and violence in America today. Locke painted an abstract portrait of Gray, a 25-year-old Black American man, whose untimely death after being in Baltimore Police custody in 2015 aggravated longstanding racial tensions in the city and sparked street protests, police clashes, and violence.
Locke generated three distinct monochromes by averaging the pixels of three individual photos of Gray that were frequently used in the media. One is a family photo, one is from his arrest, and one is an image of Gray in the hospital on life support. The resulting colors form a timeline of the life, suffering, and death of Freddie Gray." - Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum
pictured: the artist, Steve Locke (R), with art historian and educator, Nikki A. Greene (L)
image courtesy of the artist
