Kevin Gray is an artist working primarily in photography. He received a BFA in painting & drawing from Hartwick College in Oneonta, and recently received his MFA from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. While Kevin uses many of the modern digital photography tools available in his work, he much prefers traditional darkroom methods and alternative processes, such as tintypes, Polaroid emulsion lifts, and liquid photographic emulsions.
"Devils Den," the piece selected for Art in Motion, is from a series of work produced in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, during Kevin's MFA studies. The photograph is printed using a process very similar to the 19th century tintype process. Kevin was inspired by Civil War-era photographers such as Matthew Brady and Timothy O'Sullivan, and also contemporary photographers who have gone back to explore antiquarian photo processes, like Sally Mann.