Greg Slick
Underlying Greg Slick’s formal concerns with hard-edge painting and Minimalism are several key art-historical influences. Chinese calligraphy and landscape painting, particularly a Southern Song dynasty style known as “one-corner” composition, play an important role in his choice and arrangement of shapes, and in the muted palette of his small paintings. An interest in primal manmade structures and their historical connection to abstract painting led him to investigate Neolithic, Iron Age, and Early Christian archeological sites in Ireland. During an artist residency in County Clare, he lived and worked near many such sites and incorporated their structures as abstracted shapes into his paintings and works on paper. Slick is also fascinated by the unexpected relationships between theoretical physics, proposed Neolithic cosmologies, and the Taoist agenda of Chinese literati painting.
Slick has exhibited nationally and internationally, including a solo exhibition in 2016 at The Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY and solo shows at Matteawan Gallery, Beacon, NY in 2015 and 2013. He has also participated in recent group exhibitions at Ada Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD and TSA New York and Ground Floor Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. His work was included in several art fairs in 2014 and 2015, including the …
Underlying Greg Slick’s formal concerns with hard-edge painting and Minimalism are several key art-historical influences. Chinese calligraphy and landscape painting, particularly a Southern Song dynasty style known as “one-corner” composition, play an important role in his choice and arrangement of shapes, and in the muted palette of his small paintings. An interest in primal manmade structures and their historical connection to abstract painting led him to investigate Neolithic, Iron Age, and Early Christian archeological sites in Ireland. During an artist residency in County Clare, he lived and worked near many such sites and incorporated their structures as abstracted shapes into his paintings and works on paper. Slick is also fascinated by the unexpected relationships between theoretical physics, proposed Neolithic cosmologies, and the Taoist agenda of Chinese literati painting.
Slick has exhibited nationally and internationally, including a solo exhibition in 2016 at The Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY and solo shows at Matteawan Gallery, Beacon, NY in 2015 and 2013. He has also participated in recent group exhibitions at Ada Rose Gallery, Kensington, MD and TSA New York and Ground Floor Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. His work was included in several art fairs in 2014 and 2015, including the Governor’s Island Art Fair in Brooklyn with Ground Floor Gallery, JustMAD6 in Madrid, Spain and Select NYC with TSA New York, and Aqua Art Miami, Miami, FL with Matteawan Gallery. Slick has shown at the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, 1 Mile Gallery, Kingston, NY, as well as at BAU, Mad Dooley Gallery, and Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY. Curatorial projects include Therefore I Am, The Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY, and The Illustrious Mr. X: Museum Collection as Character Study (Volumes 1 & 2), Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY (co-curated with Karlos Carcamo). In 2013 Slick attended an artist residency at the Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Ireland and in 2003 was invited by the Estonian Artists’ Association (EKL) to be a Resident Artist at the Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia.
Courtesy of Matteawan Gallery