ABOUT
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Gregory Lang is a California artist best known for his abstract cityscape and landscape paintings. He is the originator of the popular urban stretch style of painting that has been reproduced in print and poster form by leading fine art publishers in the US and the United Kingdom with works distributed to over 70 countries.
A New England native, Gregory's early years were heavily influenced by the topography of the region and New York City was often the subject of his earliest works. Gregory’s first public exhibition was at age nine at the Museum of Art, Science and Industry (Museum of Discovery) of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Gregory received instruction in painting and drawing at the Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan, Connecticut. In 1991 Gregory moved to Berlin, Germany to pursue studies in art and architecture and during this period he was exposed to the underground, outsider art that was emerging following the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 1993 Gregory returned to the US and over the next several years he worked as a fine art consultant for San Francisco and New York art galleries, representing established and notable artists and in 1996 co-founded an emerging fine arts publishing company. Returning to painting in 2001, Gregory introduced his first series of urban abstract paintings at a solo gallery show in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco. Over the next ten years Gregory would exhibit in both San Francisco and New York City galleries in addition to creating editions of fine art prints. In 2020 Gregory opened the Gregory Lang Gallery in the historic Hotel St. Helena in the the heart of the Napa Valley. Gregory resides in Napa, California.
CITYSCAPE PAINTINGS
"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."
- Gregory
LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS
"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 landscape 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."
- Gregory
Exhibitions, SHOWS & COLLECTIONS
2023 John Lewis, London - Cityscapes, Fine Art Prints
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
2023 Luxe Magazine, Healdsburg Interior, January
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
Manhattan, acrylic on canvas, diptych, 60" x 96", private collection, Healdsburg
Interior by Shawback Design, Napa, California - Photography: Adam Potts
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