Gregory Mizak

Mizak Gregory's artwork.

Gregory Mizak

After A Brother’s Song

Archival pigment prints
Variable Dimensions

This installation features photographs brought together from separate archives that I have produced across a decade. The images are of singular subjects and fleeting moments that allude to the mythic nature of an ordinary life. Despite being made under deeply personal circumstances, the work is open and generous, inviting viewers to be a part of the scenes, standing alongside me in tender observation and a love of imagery. The installation is held by a tension between the poetic impulse for romantic description and the political imperative for a critical framework. Giving intimate attention to male companionship and camaraderie, the photographs emphasize a nurturing culture within my life’s fraternal relationships. It marks the beginning of a lifelong process in evaluating and negotiating life experiences that wrestle with the complexity of masculine representation in the current United States. After A Brother’s Song is elegiac in tone, resonating a latent energy of loss and longing while coming of age in the shadow of a bygone era.

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