He makes meticulously lifelike, grotesquely mutilated busts of celebrities.
"CHARLES LEDRAY: workworkworkworkwork" brings together over 25 years of remarkable work by Mr. LeDray, an artist who makes meticulously detailed, handcrafted work presented at an unexpected, usually small scale, using materials including fabric, ceramics, and human bone.
It is the first time Spanish religious paintings of the so-called Golden Age have been juxtaposed with contemporary sculptures, the latter mostly life size and made from meticulously painted wood.
In these works the date on which the painting was made is meticulously painted in white sans serif text, at the centre of a canvas coated with flat colour, with the month spelled out in the language of the place where it was made (unless the Roman alphabet was not used for the first language, in which case Kawara resorted to Esperanto).
That and growing up in rural Arkansas where, paradoxically, the lack of music available – "we didn't have a record store, we had Walmart" – and a shortage of funds led to unexpected discoveries, often made by meticulously combing through yard sales.
Truth be told, the softly spoken 48-year-old Vietnamese-born film-maker wants to be shot of any external pressure that might interfere with him making his meticulously composed films.
They started making their meticulously beaded and expansively feathered costumes a century ago, when poor blacks were exposed to Buffalo Bill's Wild West shows and saw the Indians as fellow rebels against white domination.
The death rates were astonishing (five thousand in the first three months of 1944), and, whether or not von Braun saw any of the beatings or hangings to which his fellow S.S. officers subjected the prisoners, Neufeld makes it meticulously clear that "he saw a lot".
"We have to make a meticulously perfect system work in a country where such a system cannot exist," he says.
Building on its promise to give the entrenched a run for their money, conversational AI startup Ozlo is making its meticulously crafted knowledge layer available for purchase today.
