Greg Rose
Born in San Francisco, CA in 1964, Greg Rose was raised on the Monterey Peninsula, just south of SF, in a rural suburb known as Carmel Valley. He attended the Monterey Peninsula Community College and later transferred to CSULB in Southern California where in 1992 he received a BFA in Drawing & Painting. Rose then attended Claremont Graduate University, where he received an MFA in Drawing & Painting in 1997.
Rose has since exhibited in a number of galleries and institutions including solo exhibitions with the Richard Heller Gallery and the Carl Berg Gallery in Los Angeles, the Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco and New York City, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, and the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, CA. Rose has also been included in a variety of group shows in Southern California galleries and public institutions including Miller Durazo Gallery, Domestic Setting, Acme, Raid Projects, Haus, PØST, Launch LA, Clinic Gallery, the Green Art Gallery at Biola University and the Great Park Gallery in Irvine.
Artist Statement
Regarding my artwork, I have always been interested in the place where nature and design cross over.
Formalized nature – that is, nature intended to produce an image of “nature”, such as ikebana, bonsai, and formal landscaping – appeals to me for its peculiar theatricality. It’s an aesthetic that is poetically staged and awkwardly ideal – a balance of intuition and strategy. Behind this aesthetic is a desire to “arrange”, to position form and gesture in a way that is gracefully asymmetrical, and in doing so, to shape the abstract construct of what we refer to as “natural beauty”. In older work I would usually photograph, and use as source material, the formal landscaping that is common in the various neighborhoods of Southern California. In recent years, though, I have focused on building a large and ongoing collection of tree images that I have found on my regular excursions into the San Gabriel Mountains. I always begin with a “head shot”, a detailed rendering of the tree in gouache that I can later use as a reference for more “staged” compositions that involve multiple trees (directed into a “tree drama”, as it were). The individual trees are titled with their GPS coordinates, so that I, or anybody, can re-visit the trees in person.
1997 MFA, Claremont Graduate University, CA
1992 BFA, CSULB, Long Beach, CA
Born in San Francisco, CA in 1964, Greg Rose was raised on the Monterey Peninsula, just south of SF, in a rural suburb known as Carmel Valley. He attended the Monterey Peninsula Community College and later transferred to CSULB in Southern California where in 1992 he received a BFA in Drawing & Painting. Rose then attended Claremont Graduate University, where he received an MFA in Drawing & Painting in 1997.
Rose has since exhibited in a number of galleries and institutions including solo exhibitions with the Richard Heller Gallery and the Carl Berg Gallery in Los Angeles, the Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco and New York City, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, and the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, CA. Rose has also been included in a variety of group shows in Southern California galleries and public institutions including Miller Durazo Gallery, Domestic Setting, Acme, Raid Projects, Haus, PØST, Launch LA, Clinic Gallery, the Green Art Gallery at Biola University and the Great Park Gallery in Irvine.
Artist Statement
Regarding my artwork, I have always been interested in the place where nature and design cross over.
Formalized nature – that is, nature intended to produce an image of “nature”, such as ikebana, bonsai, and formal landscaping – appeals to me for its peculiar theatricality. It’s an aesthetic that is poetically staged and awkwardly ideal – a balance of intuition and strategy. Behind this aesthetic is a desire to “arrange”, to position form and gesture in a way that is gracefully asymmetrical, and in doing so, to shape the abstract construct of what we refer to as “natural beauty”. In older work I would usually photograph, and use as source material, the formal landscaping that is common in the various neighborhoods of Southern California. In recent years, though, I have focused on building a large and ongoing collection of tree images that I have found on my regular excursions into the San Gabriel Mountains. I always begin with a “head shot”, a detailed rendering of the tree in gouache that I can later use as a reference for more “staged” compositions that involve multiple trees (directed into a “tree drama”, as it were). The individual trees are titled with their GPS coordinates, so that I, or anybody, can re-visit the trees in person.
1997 MFA, Claremont Graduate University, CA
1992 BFA, CSULB, Long Beach, CA
