Todd Gray's "Tweety Bird" arrives as a quietly unsettling meditation on the weight that beloved cultural symbols carry beneath their cheerful surfaces. Working in mixed media at 76.2 × 56.5 cm, Gray draws on the deep archive of imagery he has accumulated across a career shaped by extraordinary proximity to American popular culture, including five years as Michael Jackson's official photographer during one of the most mythologized periods in entertainment history. That biography is not incidental. It trained Gray's eye to read the machinery operating behind the spectacle, and "Tweety Bird" channels that literacy into something genuinely disquieting, transforming a cartoon figure long associated with innocent amusement into a vehicle for harder questions about race, corporate ownership, and the politics embedded in mass imagery. Gray, who completed his MFA at CalArts after his years in commercial photography, constructs his works by recontextualizing photographs drawn from his personal archive, setting images into dialogue with one another and often anchoring the composition within antique frames that introduce their own layered histories. "Tweety Bird" reflects this methodology, folding familiarity into critique until the two become inseparable. The Looney Tunes character functions here less as a nostalgic reference than as a readymade sign, one that Gray redirects toward an examination of who creates cultural icons, who profits from them, and what ideological freight they quietly transport across generations of consumption. The work is signed by the artist and presented in excellent condition, available through Lions Gallery.