Harold Gregor: Recent Flatscapes, Trailscapes, and Vibrascapes Gerald Peters Gallery
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Harold Gregor: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Santa Fe, NM – December 14, 2007– The Gerald Peters Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition of Harold Gregor’s Flatscapes, Trailscapes and Vibrascapes. An evening reception begins on February 8th, 2008 from 5 pm to 7 pm. The show runs through March 15th, 2008.
Born in 1929 in Detroit Michigan, Gregor gained national prominence in the 1970s with the photo-realist movement. His striking representations of the Midwest take the seemingly ordinary, monotonous landscape and reveal its agriculturally rich, historic and wholesome American qualities in layers of opulent color. Gregor’s tri-fold approach to his subject include realistic panoramas, or Window Space Paintings, the unusual, color-modified aerial views of farm acreage called Flatscapes, and dynamic color-laden Trailscapes from the walking trail near his home. This exhibition will also feature his new Vibrascapes, a technique that Gregor sees as a synthesis of his previous works. The Vibrascapes were the result of a badly broken wrist Gregor sustained while hiking on a cliffside trail with his watercolors in Italy in the summer of 2004. He was forced to paint left-handed.
“Gregor’s three modes of landscapes, distinctive and intriguing on their own, are even more illuminating when seen together,” said Joni Kinsey, associate professor of art history at the University of Iowa. “When conjoined they offer an incisive view of the Midwestern landscape and its prospects at the beginning of the twenty first century. Gregor’s paintings beguile with their beauty and provoke with their perspectives, challenging viewers to approach their subject with new respect and admiration.” The reinvigoration of the Midwestern landscape as Gregor portrays it allows viewers to see the land from the perspective of those who depend on it, live in it. His direct and fresh approach redefines contemporary landscape, and demonstrates the need for renewed perspective and reverence for a balanced ecology. “Underpinning all my work is the search for the “harmonic sublime,” with the hope that when I achieve it, those who view the work will come to see their own surroundings as aesthetically and spiritually uplifting.” Gregor received his BS from Wayne State University, his MS from Michigan State University, and his PhD from Ohio State University. He is the recipient of a 1993-1994 National Endowment for the Arts grant and an NEA Midwest Fellowship. In 1993 he was awarded the Illinois Academy of Fine Arts Lifetime Achievement Award. For more information, contact:
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