![]() ![]() Gray has been making art for as long as she can remember, but three years ago she started drawing on her skills as a graphic designer to create digital art that provides empowering images of trans people of color - depictions that are so often absent in popular media. The woman is the focus of “12 Limbs,” a digital painting created by Charlotte-based artist and musician Lena Gray, who identifies as Black, transgender and feminine. She is open, questioning and peaceful, but not quite serene. The woman looks up, but it’s hard to read her emotions. Perhaps she’s sloughing off the cycle of creation and carnage embodied by the many-limbed Kali, or maybe she’s emerging like a butterfly from a cocoon. Crumbling arms that seem to be carved from granite arc through the air. Captured in mid-action, she’s busting out of her old body, shedding, shattering and shaking off 10 limbs that are no longer needed. ![]() Perched on a grassy outcrop surrounded by stone, the young woman is breaking free. The Best in Charlotte – Best in the Nest 2019Ĭharlotte-based transgender artist Lena Gray at work (Photo by Lena Gray).The Best in Charlotte – Best in the Nest 2020.The Best in Charlotte – Best in the Nest 2021. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |