ABOUT
Gregory Lang Gallery
1309 Main Street
St. Helena, California 94574
T. 707.804.9111
Gallery Hours: Friday - Monday 11am - 5pm
Closed Tuesday & Wednesday
GREGORY LANG
I have been painting and sketching landscapes for most of my life. Born and raised in New England, my earliest artwork reflected my environment. I was fascinated with old buildings, factories, bridges, warehouses and colonial era forts. During this period of my early life I was greatly influenced by the museums and galleries of the region, especially by the post impressionists of the Hudson River Valley School of New York. In secondary school I began studying drawing and oil painting and during this time I developed a passion for abstract and expressionism. I would later pursue architecture and mechanical drafting and I eventually began merging my abstract imagery into my cityscapes.
My cityscapes are composites from years of drafting, sketching and photographing the urban landscape. I love creating a composition and then recreating it using different techniques, methods and media. I particularly enjoy the abstract and impressionistic elements in my paintings as I feel those attributes allow the viewer the most freedom for interpretation. Some of my favorite paintings are those with unique surface qualities. I spend a great deal of time developing the texture of a painting so that it compliments the composition and palette.
When it comes to appreciating art, I have eclectic taste and it's probably too long of a topic for me to cover in one paragraph, so this is something I plan to do in some other format eventually. But for now, just to name some of the better known artists that have influenced my work, I would say Albert Bierstadt, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, J. M. W. Turner, Edward Hopper, John William Waterhouse, William Merrit Post, Jackson Pollack, are some of the names that quickly come to mind. I am always searching to make my work unique yet familiar, as though the work relates directly to the viewer. I almost always see a vision of a painting in my minds eye before I begin working on a canvas. I sketch everything out in advance, everything is planned. I can't always achieve what I envision, but when I do it seems that these are the paintings that stand out the most.
"Metropolis", oil on canvas, 48" x 72", Lumen Gallery NYC, 2010
Exhibitions, SHOWS & COLLECTIONS
2022 John Lewis, London - Cityscapes, Fine Art Prints
2021 John Lewis, London - Cityscapes, Fine Art Prints
2020 John Lewis, London - Cityscapes, Fine Art Prints
2019 John Lewis, London - Cityscapes, Fine Art Prints
2018 John Lewis, London - Cityscapes, Fine Art Prints
2012 Lumen Gallery, New York City - Solo Show, Urban Abstract Paintings
2011 Lumen Gallery, New York City - Solo Show, Urban Landscape Paintings
2010 Lumen Gallery, New York City, Urban Abstract & Landscape Paintings
2009 West Coast Art & Frame Show, Las Vegas, Poster Launch
2007 ArtExpo International, Las Vegas SOLO, Group Show
2007 Sutter Gallery, San Francisco - New Works, Urban Landscapes, Solo Show
2006 Sutter Gallery, San Francisco - New Works, Urban Abstracts, Solo Show
2005 Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, San Francisco - Youth For Arts Auction
2005 North Beach Gallery, San Francisco - Urban Landscapes, Solo Show
2004 North Beach Gallery, San Francisco - Abstracts, Group Exhibition
2003 North Beach Gallery, San Francisco - New Works, Group Exhibition
2002 North Beach Gallery, San Francisco - Urban Abstracts, Solo Show
2001 North Beach Gallery, San Francisco - Landscape Paintings, Group Exhibition
1981 Discovery Museum, Arts, Science and Industry - Book Illustration, Bridgeport, Connecticut
PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA
2016 Celebrating Four Decades of Art, Bruce McGaw Graphics, New York - January
2012 Art, Bruce McGaw Graphics, New York, January
2010 Oxford University Press, NYC - Book Cover Art
2009 Art World News, Magazine - Rowayton, CT, Article, February
2008 Art Business News, Magazine - New York, Article - March
2006 Lifescape Magazine, Los Angeles, Artist Profile- January
2006 Urbanzeitgeist, San Francisco - Artist Profile - January
2005 Lifescapes Magazine - Los Angeles - Cover Artist, December
2003 Evening Magazine, KPIX, San Francisco, Feature - October
EDUCATION
Silvermine School of Art, New Canaan, Connecticut
Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut
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