As an artist I have always been lured by moments when time seems to slow down. I approach painting as a means to show not just a place, but a mood or emotion that I felt encountering it.
Working from personal observation and photographs, my paintings take weeks to months to complete. I travel often - and my different art projects have taken me to India, Afghanistan, El Salvador, and across the entire US Mexico Border.
My paintings reflect my interest in the way the road delineates and controls how we experience landscape. From the roadway perspective, we not only travel from one place to another, we see landscaped in a varied and complex manner. I use water on the windshield to create a shifting lens for the way we see the environment: it both highlights and obscures our viewing. These images are born out of a real experience and have a close relationship with the medium of painting.
- Gregory Thielker
Gregory Thielker is an American artist currently based in Geneva, Switzerland. He has exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. Recent exhibition venues include Guy Hepner Gallery, New York, Castor Gallery, New York, Brown University, The Brattleboro Art Museum, Vermont, Derouillon Gallery, Paris, and Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC. He is a Fulbright Fellow and has done residencies in India, Norway, El Salvador, and Argentina. His work has been featured by Juxtapoz, The Guardian, Vermont Public Radio, The Independent, and La Repubblica.
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