Greggory Wood "Offense of Legacy"

In 2024, Greggory Wood began creating his series Offense of Legacy. Collected now in a solo exhibition, he employs his inventive use of photography and collage to critique the myths around two major themes: patriarchy and legacy. He argues that both can be reactionary and antithetical to the progress of our collective society and to the emancipation of self-identity.

Wood is an autodidact photographer who has lived in Salt Lake City for the past thirty years. Taking inspiration from the work of Peter Lindbergh, Annie Liebovitz, Edward Weston, David Hockney and Kensuke Koike, he creates large-scale photographic polyptych montages that arrest the viewer with bold imagery and concepts, provoking both conversation and introspection. As we grapple with our own ideas around these themes and the many ways they continue to develop in this current moment in time, he reminds us to also consider the historical context. In Offense of Legacy, Wood provides us with an intoxicating body of work that takes us on a vital journey of self-discovery, history, and cultural evolution.