Charles LeDray: Work, Work, Work, Work, Work, J. Longwood, J. Mergel, A. Weinberg 2010

The catalog from LeDray’s 2010 exhibit at the ICA and Whitney highlights 90 of his extraordinary works, from Men’s Suits to his Village People and human bone sculptures.  The essays establish his connections to the serialists and describe his innovative and creative use of materials and settings which pose questions of diverse notions of time, typology (reminiscent of Walker Evans’ American Photographs), and complex connections of community, class and culture.  “LeDray’s art is not the object itself, but our experience of the object.  The instability of the human condition and art’s attempt to find a language and form to attend to it.”