Chance Gray
SCREEN PRINTING
I has been screen printing since 2018. Since then, I have helped build out a community print shop that served as a collaborative space to design and print revolutionary art. I have also produced several designs that promote the politics of liberation and connection across barriers.
Defend the Sacred
This Design is inspired by the book sanctuary everywhere which explores the sacred forces at play in the migrations routes of the Sonoran Desert. While living and doing humanitarian aid work with migrants in Sonora I photographed the cactus that is displayed in the design reaching over the border wall. The garment is stained with coffee.
Ruin
Prisons
2019
Chance's second shirt design invites viewers and wearers to imagine a world in which prison are the ruins of a past era and depicts a prison which has literally become a ruin. The front pocket has an image of a cherub carrying an envelope through a chain link heart. It was intended as a gesture toward the importance of mail art in abolitionist praxis.
Every Mouth Can be Fed
mutual aid forever
This design declares that the scarcity of our world is not inevitable, and that in fact every mouth could be fed if resources were distributed more justly. The bottom text declaring "mutual aid forever" reveals a framework for a more cooperative way of sharing resources.
Fire to
Toxic Prisons
In 2018 Chance was commissioned to design and print shirts for the Fight Toxic Prisons convergence. This shirt was intended to promote the work of the Fight Toxic Prisons organization which works toward environmental justice and abolition.
Print Shop
2018-2021
From 2018-2021 Chance built up and bottom lined a screen print shop that served to provide a collaborative space for artists and activists to print art in service of liberation. Chance helped print apparel for the abolitionist organizations ABO Comix and Flying Over Walls, in support of striking nurses, and the campaign to Save Parker Elementary School. Chance also independently produced 3 lines of shirts and numerous patches that promote abolition and revolution.
