Rob Gray is a human-shaped art maker in Portland, Oregon. They are a founding member of Lovely Book Club, which is sort of a yacht-less yacht club, but also a drinking club and an amateur football (soccer) club. They spend most of their time working for Full Life, a day program for adults with developmental disabilities, where they produce the Full Life Radical Radio Show, a bi-weekly show on Freeform Community Radio which features interviews, theater, and music by folks with disabilities. Rob is the author of various books, chapbooks, and zines, including The Immaculate Collection / The Rhododendron and Camellia Year Book (1966) [University of Hell], Ticklish Animal [Bone Tax Press], and Park House [Black Cake Records], and enjoyed the honor of writing the introduction to Alive At The Center: Contemporary Poems of the Pacific Northwest [Ooligan Press]. Rob's writing has been featured in Tin House, The Portland Review, Old Pal, NAP, Love Symbol Press and various other wonderful publications. Rob was born in London, England, grew up in Karlsruhe, Germany, lived in the Bay Area and Santa Barbara, CA before settling in the Pacific Northwest. They have been living, working, making and sharing art, music, and poetry in Portland since 2009. You can explore their work at www.robertduncangray.com. More importantly, you can find Rob at chess.com, where their username is rg84. Bring it on.
TIME/PERFORMANCE-BASED MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS:
The Worst Chair Maker in Portland (June-September 2017)
Online exhibition:
Free Unsittable Couch and
Instagram
Lost Nixon
Limited edition book:
Lost Nixon
Online exhibition:
Lost Nixon
VISUAL
Drawings
Paintings
Animations
Photographs
VIDEO
Random video projects
Selected Published Works:
CABBAGE LANGUAGE / Housefire / novella & poetry
DUDEPOEM / Tin House / Summer Reading 2015, Issue #64
TRANS- with Lindsay Allison Ruoff / chap + .pdf
BOOTY SLAPPERZ / with Julian Smuggles / ebook
M / Love Symbol Press / echap
cloud / moustache / NAP / echap
