Chadwick and Spector: Museum Anatomy

A true body of work

Look carefully and discover the world of Chadwick Gray & Laura Spector.

These two artists have been working with museums for many years, gaining access to storage facilities, working with the curators to find paintings (mostly 19th century female portraiture), documenting them, and Laura Spector subsequently recreating them on Chadwick Gray’s body. The painting process takes between 6 and 18 hours, is then photographed and printed up to the size of the original art work, sometimes a large mural. Employing the illusion of multistable perception, the final photograph often keeps your eye wandering around and around the frame.

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