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Gregory
Gallardo
www.gregorygallardo.com
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Gregory
Gallardo was born in Santa Ana, California in 1962. As a teenager, he was
mentored by artist Don White and found early success exhibiting his figurative
drawings and paintings. Gregory attended several local California Colleges and Universities
but had little patience for organized art instruction and found that networking
with other successful artists to be a more satisfying learning experience. Throughout
the 1980s and 1990s, Gregory toured and recorded as a professional musician,
all while continuing to produce commissioned artwork and the occasional gallery
exhibit. He reemerged on the art scene full-time in early 2001 blending his
love for nature, music and dance performance to create his own unique views on
humanity and spirituality. In the pre-pandemic world of late 2019 a
retrospective of Gregory’s work featuring 40 select works was exhibited at the
acclaimed Soka University Founders Gallery in Aliso Viejo California. The
highly regarded exhibit highlighted 20 years of Gregory’s oil, acrylic and
collage works. Gregory’s art creations have been exhibited extensively
throughout California and found their way into several permanent collections on
an international scale.
O-012_black_chinned_hummingbird by Gregory Gallardo collage 12x12 $375
Through the use of seductive rich
colors and an exquisite sense of balance between planes, Gregory’s work spans
between figuration and abstraction. Forever “the student” always reaching and
seemingly never standing still, Gregory’s comfort zone is constant change -
moving through different mediums and styles with perceived ease. Of particular
interest are his collage pieces comprised completely of torn/cut magazine
paper. Regardless of medium or technique his work always feels personal rather
than public. Fundamentally a West Coast artist, heavily influenced by his
California environment, he has the ability to create a kind of humanized
abstraction, either through the direct use of the human figure or through the
delicacy and personal expressivity of the touch of his brush. His unique point
of view on collage creates vivid figurative images with an uncanny painterly
quality. His works elegantly reconcile his perception of the natural
environment and the human condition.
O-011_whitecrownsparrow by Gregory Gallardo collage 12x12 $375
Exhibits
& Media:
Soka
Univeristy Solo Exhibit Retrospective
The Orange
County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA), Santa Ana California
The
National AIDS Museum, Syracuse New York
The
Riverside Unified School District, Riverside California
Brea Art
Gallery, Brea California
TAG
Gallery, Santa Monica California
Linus
Galleries, Long Beach and Pasadena California
Laguna
Beach City Hall
Irvine Fine
Arts Center, Irvine California
The
University of California, Irvine California
Orange
Coast Magazine – The art of awareness
Gregory donates 40% of his internet and
private earnings from art to local charities as a means of thanking the
community he loves.
