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Anthony John Gray
Surrealist , Modern Art , Spiritual Logic , Spiritualist Art
1987

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An intriguing and thought provoking impressive unique modern art , spiritual logic , spiritual art , surrealist art oil painting by the renowned and internationally well recognised modern art , spiritual artist and sometimes controversial artist Anthony John Gray who choses for his thought provoking and stunning works of art to be categorised under the banner of spiritual logic. ANTHONY JOHN GRAY was born in 1946 and began his Contemporary Modern , Surrealist , Spiritual Art under the Spiritual Logic category in the late 1970's . Anthony John Gray is known in the Modern Art circles that matter, which is why Anthony John Gray has had renowned London Galleries exhibit his works along with Banksy and other ground breaking modern and thought provoking artists from the 20th and 21st centuries. BELOW ARE JUST A FEW ART EXHIBITIONS THAT ANTHONY JOHN GRAY PAINTINGS AND WORKS OF ART HAVE BEEN SHOWN WITH WHAT IS UNDERSTOOD TO BE WITH RESOUNDING SUCCESS. AXIS GALLERY. Brighton. UK. VINCENT FORLAGS. Stockholm. SWEDEN. Private Exhibitions. MUNICH and BELGIUM. GALLERY MATHILDE. Amsterdam. HOLLAND. Travelling Exhibition. DENMARK and DUBAI. TOKYO Art Fair. JAPAN. NEW YORK ART EXPO. 1986. USA. NEW YORK ART EXPO. 1988. USA. NEW YORK ART EXPO. 1994. USA. LA MONDE GALLERIES. Cincinnati. USA KELMSCOTT GALLERIES. Vancouver. CANADA. RIGGS GALLERY. San Diego. USA. NELSON ROCKEFELLER GALLERY. Orange County. USA. NELSON ROCKEFELLER GALLERY. Palm Springs. USA DAGEN BELA GALLERY. San Antonio. USA. PATRICIA JUDITH GALLERY. Boca Raton. USA. GALLERY SHURINI. St James. London. UK. LOS ANGELES ART FAIR. 1987. USA. LOS ANGELES ART FAIR 1990. USA. JARO FINE ART. Madison Ave. New York. USA. BARON RENEE STEENS GALLERY. Brussels. BELGIUM. INTERNET EXHIBITION. New York. USA. WASHINGTON WORLD GALLERY. Washington DC. USA. DYANSEN GALLERIES. New York. USA. FORT WORTH EXHIBITON. USA. NEW YORK ART EXPO. 2007. USA. Also exhibited at: CARLISLE CITY ART MUSEUM. UK. INTERNATIONAL DESIGN EXHIBITION. London. UK. AXIS GALLERY. Brighton. UK. NEWGATE GALLERY. London. UK. CHALKFARM GALLERY. London. UK. TOWNHOUSE GALLERIES. New Orleans. USA. TONI JONES GALLERY. Houston. USA. ATLAS GALLERIES. Chicago. USA. ELAN GALLERIES. Los Angeles. USA. SPECTRUM GALLERIES. Miami. USA. ALLYSON LOUIS GALLERIES. Maryland. USA. GALLERY DEMENGA. Basle. SWITZERLAND. PRESTIGE GALLERIES. Illinois. USA. VERNISSAGE GALLERY. Aix en Provence. FRANCE. CORAL GABLES INTERNATIONAL ART CENTRE. Miami. USA. GM GALLERY ARTS CENTRE. East Grinstead. UK. 20TH CENTURY ART. GALLERY DEMENGA. Basle. SWITZERLAND. GROSSFORMATTE. GALLERY DEMENGA. Basle. SWITZERLAND. KOLLEKTION DER GALLERY. GALLERY DEMENGA. Basle. SWITZERLAND. PRAE-PARA-POST-KONKRETE. GALLERY DEMENGA. Basle. SWITZERLAND. From a banned exhibition of nudes in Brighton in the 70s, which made the local and national newspapers to finding his own language in art, Anthony continues to exhibit across the USA and Europe. In 1987 he was made honorary citizen of Palm Springs for artistic achievement. He designed the reverse of one of five commemorative medals for the Palm Springs Golden Anniversary along with Yaccov Agam, Leroy Neimann, R.C.Gorman and Olaf Weighorst. He has worked on large installation projects for companies such as the Institute of Nutritional Sciences, San Diego and the I.R.T Corporation in California. He works mainly on canvas from small pieces to large installation works, diptychs and triptychs. He also produces three dimensional works in boxes. He is currently working on the theme of a zero and a one, a series on the cross, numbers and the great church and cathedral series. Working with extreme precision everyone of his paintings are meticulously worked by hand.The artist does not use an airbrush. Spending many years developing his own style of imagery the artist has always remarked that the work has carried the title of SPIRITUAL LOGIC. It is best left to Michael Robinson an art biographer who researched and interviewed the artist to best describe his place in modern art.............. Although Anthony John Gray is without formal training, like many artists he began his career by studying and copying the old masters. An early exhibition in 1975 revealed his ability to imbue the realsim of Courbet, for example, with his own sense of the surreal - an indicator of the path he had chosen as a painter, his subsequent early works are reminiscent of the heyday of British Surrealism, with visual qualities that set them apart from their French counterparts. It is to simplistic however, to call Gray a surrealist. Although his work is clearly informed by, for example, Roland Penrose, and even the continental surrealists such as Magritte and Delvaux, it is less sinister, motivated as theirs was by European politics of the 1930's. Like the previous generations of surrealists, Grays paintings are based on a methodology of collage and montage, and still have the ability to disturb and pacify at one and the same time, through strange juxtapositions. There the similarities end. There are subtle differences that set Grays work apart from his antecedent, including the empowered women who populate his world. A forceful reminder of how male artists of his generation have transcended the notion of woman merely as a muse. In Britain during the 1930's there were seemingly endless battles between the surrealists and the abstractionists about the superiority of their respective art forms that saw such artists as Henry Moore and Paul Nash acting as arbiters. Gray is not an arbiter, but an artist whose work is a fusion of surrealism and geometric abstraction. As enigmatic as his surrealism is, his images are imbued with a sense of order and rationale. In this post modernism age, Gray is aware that the sensibilities are continually bombarded with visual images, many of which are nihilistic and pessimistic. Gray however is an optimist, his images imbued with a luxurious sense of colour that eschews negativity - an art he calls Spiritual Logic. It is in effect a very positive surrealsim for the 21st century. In the past ,esteemed Art Galleries in America have sold these particular fairly large oil on canvas pieces for sums in excess of £20,000. Also, as this unique artist is in his advanced stage of life of 72 years, now could be an ideal time to invest in his works, especially his early works.

Creator:
Anthony John Gray (1946, English)
Creation Year:
1987
Dimensions:
Height: 26.38 in (67 cm)Width: 22.45 in (57 cm)Depth: 1.58 in (4 cm)
Medium:
Oil
Movement & Style:
Surrealist
Period:
1980-1989
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Hailsham, GB
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU84732597151