MATT GRAY
Matt Gray is a self-taught artist living and working in South St. Louis City. His drawings and prints have been exhibited at TechArtista and the Cherokee Print Bazaar. Gray has designed illustrations for bands, show flyers, and restaurants in St.Louis. He took a break from sculpture making to focus on his vintage shop GrayMart Online where you can find vintage goods, hand painted clothing, and oddities. Gray is back in the studio resurfacing his larger than life paper mache sculptures of mundane objects and situations.
My daily life looks like a really long errand: wake up, feed my cat, drink coffee, stop by thrift stores and junk outlets, basement studio, rinse and repeat. Along this very long errand, I look for treasures among seas of garbage, which might not be anything to someone else but quickly become inspiration for my drawings and sculptures. I create everyday objects from everyday materials including cardboard, paper, glue, joint compound, and flour. Each object holds a close human association celebrating, yet memorializing the mundane of life's errand.
