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Todd Gray — Bugs Bunny, Daisy etc.
Todd Gray — Bugs Bunny, Daisy etc.
Todd Gray — Bugs Bunny, Daisy etc.
Todd Gray — Bugs Bunny, Daisy etc.
Todd Gray — Bugs Bunny, Daisy etc.
Todd Gray — Bugs Bunny, Daisy etc.
Todd Gray — Bugs Bunny, Daisy etc.
Todd Gray

Bugs Bunny, Daisy etc.

A provocative collision of childhood nostalgia and critical inquiry, "Bugs Bunny, Daisy etc." places some of the most recognizable characters in American popular culture under an unsettling conceptual lens. Todd Gray brings to this print a fluency in cultural iconography that is inseparable from his biography, having moved between the intimate inner circles of pop stardom and the rigorous intellectual environment of CalArts, where he ultimately completed his MFA. That rare dual immersion in mass culture and fine art theory gives his engagement with figures like Bugs Bunny a layered quality, treating them not as simple nostalgia but as loaded symbols embedded in corporate structures, racial histories, and the mechanics of American myth-making. Gray's practice centers on the recontextualization of images drawn from his own extensive archive, and this signed print reflects that methodology, working with familiar visual language while destabilizing the comfort that familiarity tends to produce. The result is a work that operates on multiple registers at once, playful on the surface yet formally and conceptually demanding beneath it. At 76.2 by 56.5 centimeters, the composition holds its visual tension well at a scale suited to close, sustained looking. Presented in good condition and available through Lions Gallery, this work offers collectors an entry point into one of the more searching and distinctive voices in contemporary photo-based art.

Medium
Print
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Signed
Yes
Location
Lions Gallery, Surfside, FL

For Sale — $1500

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Todd Gray, Bugs Bunny, Daisy etc.

A provocative collision of childhood nostalgia and critical inquiry, "Bugs Bunny, Daisy etc." places some of the most recognizable characters in American popular culture under an unsettling conceptual lens. Todd Gray brings to this print a fluency in cultural iconography that is inseparable from his biography, having moved between the intimate inner circles of pop stardom and the rigorous intellectual environment of CalArts, where he ultimately completed his MFA. That rare dual immersion in mass culture and fine art theory gives his engagement with figures like Bugs Bunny a layered quality, treating them not as simple nostalgia but as loaded symbols embedded in corporate structures, racial histories, and the mechanics of American myth-making. Gray's practice centers on the recontextualization of images drawn from his own extensive archive, and this signed print reflects that methodology, working with familiar visual language while destabilizing the comfort that familiarity tends to produce. The result is a work that operates on multiple registers at once, playful on the surface yet formally and conceptually demanding beneath it. At 76.2 by 56.5 centimeters, the composition holds its visual tension well at a scale suited to close, sustained looking. Presented in good condition and available through Lions Gallery, this work offers collectors an entry point into one of the more searching and distinctive voices in contemporary photo-based art.

Medium
Print
Dimensions
sheet: 76.2 x 56.5 cm
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Lions Gallery, Surfside, FL

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