Gregory Joseph Gillespie - Artnet
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Gregory Gillespie - Wikipedia
Gillespie became known for meticulously painted figurative paintings, landscapes, and self portraits, often with a fantastical element. Many of his early works were made by painting over photographs cut from newspapers or magazines, transforming the scenes through photographic collage, and by adding imaginary elements.
Gregory Gillespie - Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gillespie describes the work of these years as "soaked with the textures of Italy–the feelings, the colors." These works combine traditional techniques (underpainting, glazing, and three-point perspective) with overpainted or partially scratched out collage elements in a way that enhances the ambiguity of the imagery.
The Painted Life of Gregory Gillespie
See the groundbreaking work and legacy of American artist Gregory Gillespie (1936 – 2000) in this feature documentary. A beloved talent and visionary, Gillespie radically altered the path set for “new realism” painters by “rorschaching” into the mysteries of his own psychological demons while lifting cues from his careful study of ...
Estate of Gregory Gillespie - Artists - George Adams Gallery
Gregory Gillespie's Tomb II from 1998-99 is on view at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. This installation, made from mixed media on wood panels, is one of many shrine-like self portrait constructions made by Gillespie.
Gregory Gillespie – R. MICHELSON GALLERIES
Moving against a prevailing artistic climate that championed the abstract, he became known for meticulously painted figurative paintings, landscapes, and self portraits, His work often had a fantastical element, infusing the mundane with a complex and often contradictory spirituality.
Gregory Gillespie | Studio Corner | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist: Gregory Gillespie (American, Roselle Park, New Jersey 1936–2000 Belchertown, Massachusetts) Date: 1983–86. Medium: Oil, alkyd, acrylic, graphite, paper, wood, and collage elements on wood. Dimensions: 96 x 96 1/4 in. (243.8 x 244.5 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Anonymous Gift, 1986. Object Number: 1986.411ab
Gregory Gillespie - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title: Landscape with Islands and Sky. Artist: Gregory Gillespie (American, Roselle Park, New Jersey 1936–2000 Belchertown, Massachusetts) Date: 1979. Medium: Oil on particle board. Dimensions: 12 1/4 × 34 7/8 in. (31.1 × 88.6 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Gift of the family of Charles Wilmers, in his honor, 1982.
Gregory Gillespie - National Gallery of Art
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A Unique American Vision: Paintings by Gregory Gillespie
Working with a Realist exactitude and intensity, Gillespie creates paintings and sculptural assemblages in which he transforms familiar art historical genres — the still-life, the landscape, and the portrait — into a vivid, phantasmagoric, and surreal world of his own.