Today we’d like to introduce you to Gregory Malphurs.
Hi Gregory, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I guess you could say I was born into art – as a child I spent a lot of time with my grandparents. My Grandfather was a full-time painter and I spent countless hours with him at his painting studio. I was provided with literally any material available in the studio to create – not to mention access to my Grandfather’s extensive library of art books & magazines. So it’s no accident that I’ve been creating from the time I could grip a pencil.
Over the years I’ve created a lot of art – but in the last five years, in NYC and LA, I’m making my best work.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
It’s really tough being an artist – you hear “no” more often than “yes” and you really have to have a confident toughness that what you are doing is great – and important.
And equally difficult because distractions try to get in the way, but as an artist, you MUST MUST MUST stack as many consecutive days in the studio as possible. It’s the only way to find your way through the work – and very difficult to pull off.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
My work is a deconstruction recipe of emotions, colors, stories, and inspirations reflecting life with its troubles and complications — each part and piece of a puzzle making it whole.
From an inside-out view, the work reveals a universal common bond of personal struggle — that life is a series of fragments that we have to make sense of — introspection, fragmentation, complexity of being, dealing with confliction.
Intuitively I feel the need to “destroy” in the work, but it’s actually the need to always challenge myself to go further, not to accept things at face value and never settle — a need to go deeper and look at the places in ourselves we would rather avoid.
My mission is to make work that allows us to embrace our insecurities without judgment. Making the statement: “Yeah, we’re all fucked up, but we’re doing the best we can.”
I’m best known for my work in portraiture – working in oil and mixed media. My work always stands out as a different approach to portraiture.
I’m most proud of my show “Cavernous Perspectives” at Speedy Gallery LA thru Feb 11, 2023
Do you have any memories from childhood that you can share with us?
Being in my grandfather’s studio while he was working. The smell of oil paint, turpentine and cigarette smoke.
Pricing:
- $1000 – $18000
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.gregorymalphursart.com/
- Instagram: @gregorymalphurs
Image Credits
© Gregory Malphurs. All rights reserved.
