Bring Me Men

NıCOLETTı is delighted to present Bring Me Men, the first solo exhibition by London-based, American artist Gray Wielebinski (b. 1991, Dallas, TX) at the gallery, following NıCOLETTı’s solo presentation by Wielebinski at Frieze London 2025.

Examining the cultural scripts and contradictions through which masculinity is produced, performed, and contested, Bring Me Men takes its title from a phrase formerly inscribed on the façade of the United States Air Force Academy – where the artist’s father completed military training in the 1970s – before its removal in 2003. At NıCOLETTı, Wielebinski uses this slogan as a point of departure to pose a set of questions that run throughout the exhibition: who is a man, how is masculinity produced, and through which institutional and affective regimes is it sustained?

Taken together, the works outline the silhouette of a collector, someone whose identity is formed through accumulation, concealment, and display. The juxtaposition of highly stylised commercial imagery with intimate or incidental materials collapses distinctions between public and private, sophisticated and banal. Here meaning emerges through association rather than resolution; objects are simultaneously offered and withheld, producing a field in which masculinity appears not as an unstable assemblage – continuously constituted through repetition, regulation, and disavowal.