Michael Ray Charles with one of his paintings
Thursday, November 20, 2008, 5:30pm | Center for Creative Photography 108
In each of his graphically styled paintings, Michael Ray Charles investigates racial stereotypes drawn from a history of American advertising, product packaging, billboards, radio jingles, and television commercials. Through notions of beauty, ugliness, nostalgia, and violence, his work reminds us that we cannot divorce ourselves from a past that has led us to where we are, who we have become, and how we are portrayed.
