Ken Gray is the son of Art and Sylvia Gray and was was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada and grew up in Windsor, Canada's Motor City. He spent his formative years working on the assembly lines of Ford Motor Company, so blue-collar associations of the factory floor helped shape his social and political point of view. Gray completed his formal education in Printmaking at the Cranbrook Academy of Art where he developed an unorthodox approach to the medium. He remains constantly curious about the transfer of ink under pressure and uses the press to create not just to reproduce. Process also informs his work away from the press, including photography, collage, mixed media and concrete poetry. Gray is an independent artist who lives and works in Stone Ridge, New York.
Ken Gray
Studios
Putnam
Ken Gray worked in the Putnam studio.
The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…