Honorees at The Brick 2026 Annual Gala

Todd Gray

Todd Gray (b. 1954, Los Angeles, CA) is an artist who works in photography, performance and sculpture. Gray's work is represented in numerous museum collections including the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Houston Fine Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; among others. He was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2018 and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency Fellowship in 2016. In 2022 The American Academy in Rome announced Todd Gray as one of the winners of the prestigious 2022–23 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships. Gray has presented this work in academic conferences at Yale and Harvard University. Gray works between Los Angeles and Ghana, where he explores the diasporic dislocations and cultural connections which link Western hegemony with West Africa.

The exhibition TODD GRAY: Church and State opens at The Brick on Sunday, October 18, 2026 from 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM.

Margaret Morgan & Wesley Phoa

Margaret Morgan is an artist. Wesley Phoa is a mathematician. Margaret was born and raised in Sydney; Wesley, born in Singapore and raised in Adelaide, South Australia.

She studied art at the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney, the Whitney Independent Study Program, and UC Irvine. He attended the Australian National University and Trinity College, Cambridge, UK, earning a PhD in pure mathematics. Margaret’s life as an artist had been somewhat feral, living and working in Sydney, Paris, Berlin and New York, exhibiting widely albeit obscurely. Having moved to Southern California in 1992, she finally settled on home in Los Angeles. She drove a 1977 Camaro.

In 1995, when Margaret met Wesley, she encountered a young mathematician, living in Sydney, working in an investment bank. A pin-striped suit. They fell in love. They shared a love of art, from Mary Kelly to Marcel Duchamp; philosophy, mostly post-structuralist; politics; music. And even mathematics, though Margaret's knowledge of same is limited, to say the least. She had had a list of qualities she wanted in a mate.

Wes was nothing like what she imagined. She threw out the list and he moved to Los Angeles. Over three decades, they have built a life, a family with a daughter and two cats, a practice of living, a way of being in the world. Whether in their own intellectual and creative inquiries or in support of other art, music, education, mathematics, economics, and so on; they do so with love and pleasure and with the aim to leave the world a little better than they found it.

Tickets

Patron Table for 10 Guests

$25,000

Individual Ticket for One Guest

$2,500

All proceeds benefit The Brick.

If you prefer to purchase tables or tickets to The Brick 2026 Annual Gala by check, wire, or DAF please be in touch with Director of Development, Jeremy Steinke at jeremy@the-brick.org. 

Courtesy of the artist © Todd Gray.