Wide-eyed and expressive, the figures featured in the idiosyncratic work of Saul Gray-Hildenbrand are captivating and mysterious. His characters’ features are exaggerated in a way which strikes the viewer as warmly odd and disturbingly funny. He deliberately avoids being specific, a result of his infatuation with “things out of context; a person out of their space, a sentence out of a story, a word all by itself”. His subjects are placed in ambiguous spaces free of environment and perspective, leading the viewer to draw our own conclusions. The addition of text to his compositions deepens the mysterious world of each figure and enriches potential narratives. A graduate of Grand Valley State University and a prolific artist, Gray-Hildenbrand works in a variety of media from drawing to painting to sculpture, and employs a biting visual humor that is both peculiar and endearing. It is with his complex, peculiar creations that Gray-Hildenbrand reveals his “profane love of the absurd”.