Miss America

Gratin, in association with Elizabeth Leach Gallery and collaboration with Mitchell Algus, is pleased to present Miss America, the first solo exhibition of work by Ed Bereal in New York. Described as “The Most Important Activist-Artist You Don't Know” by Alex V. Cipolle on Hyperallergic, Bereal has engaged with a vast range of social, political and environmental issues across a career spanning seven decades. The works on view reflect formative experiences gained as an art student at Chouinard Art Institute in the 1950s and 60s, a young artist living and working in the greater Watts area during the 1965 riots, and a documentarian covering geopolitical shifts across the globe in the 1990s.