About Charles LeDray

  • Biography

    LeDray, a self-taught artist, moved to New York in 1989. His installations and small sculptures serve as "emotional touchstones" for the viewer. LeDray's work is a commentary on a society to busy to care for its own. One installation titled "Village People" is of collection of diminutive hats, which LeDray makes by hand, hanging in a row nine feet above the floor, reference the men that have died to aids. Another work, "Untitled/Mattress," is a miniature of a mattress that has been worn and stained with dirt and blood and other body fluids.

    Source: Art in America, September 2002

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