Madara and Sasuke

July 31 - August 28, 2020

St. Louis, MO — Monaco is pleased to present Madara and Sasuke, opening Friday, July 31 in the Monaco Project Gallery.  The exhibition will feature work by Gregory Michael Carter.  The exhibition runs through Friday, August 28. Gallery hours are 12 - 4pm every Saturday.

In response to The Cult of the Lost Cause

I am constantly seeking to learn and understand my own period of time, but in doing so, I find myself immersed in the study of the years piled up behind me. As a result, my work has evolved into a grand interrogation of history, culture, philosophy, psychology, and the human response to war. My life is fueled by this ongoing search for understanding. For much of my adult life, I’ve felt like an enemy combatant living behind enemy lines, even when I’m at home. These new works are manifestations of that sentiment. They seek to emulate modern relics, on stone, papyrus, and Newport Carton boxes. They seek to tell a true history of my family, my community, and my culture in a land controlled by my oppressor. These works could be compared directly to hieroglyphs or the coded quilts, that doubled as maps, slaves used to escape to freedom. I am an interdisciplinary artist born in Houston, Texas, working primarily in drawing, painting, collage, and photography.

GREGORY MICHAEL CARTER (b. Houston, TX, USA) is a multidisciplinary artist working in collage, installation, photography, printmaking and painting. His work consists primarily of mixed media approaches to drawing, painting, photography and collage. Through these works one can see the use of carefully constructed ideograms, which depict his views on various social and political issues all over the world, how they are connected, and most importantly how they affect our everyday lives. Gregory's practice is rooted in an expanded view of history, with a particular interest in human interaction and how it causes the spread of culture in the modern world.