What’s In a Face?

In the mid-2000s, Kevin Francis Gray began sculpting cloaked or hooded figures in marble and bronze, their faces hidden by draped cloth. More recent works have featured faces distorted by pockmarks, the marble resembling a dimpled pillow. In Gray’s latest series, “Breakdown Works” (2020), which make up the bulk of his exhibition at Pace, the faces are even more obscured: he has gouged so deeply into the marble that it is unclear, in many instances, if you’re even looking