Opening reception Friday, September 3, 6-9pm

"There are two ways to conceive of the cinema of the Real: the first is to pretend that you can present reality to be seen; the second is to pose the problem of reality.”
- Edgar Morin

Mike Bray’s new videos, photographs and sculptures continue his investigations into a self-inflicted cinematic space. Bray recontextualizes time, frame by frame, collapsing and expanding the spectacle through the idiom of cinema. In It was never about the audience, the 1970 Rolling Stones documentary Gimme Shelter acts as the material from which Bray pulls both his conceptual and visual landscape.

Mike Bray is the Co-Founder of Ditch Projects, an artist-run studio, installation and performance space located in downtown Springfield, Oregon. He has exhibited at Soil Gallery, Seattle; Crawl Space, Seattle; The Art Gym at Marylhurst University; and Portland State University. Bray currently lives in Eugene, Oregon, where he teaches at the University of Oregon.