ArtistGregory MalphursResidesUnited States
Websitegregorymalphursart.comMediumOil
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Representing
Gallery
Speed Gallery
Santa Monica, CA. USA

Gallery 612
Santa Monica, CA. USA
ThemesModern Portraiture
Human Complexity
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About the artist

“The audacity to look deeply is the basis of creativity. The ability to see beyond the ordinary, getting to what is, in most cases invisible.”

Gregory Malphurs’ work is a deconstruction recipe of emotions, colors, stories, and inspirations reflecting life with its troubles and complications — each part and piece of a puzzle making it whole. From an inside-out view, the work reveals a universal common bond of personal struggle — that life is a series of fragments that we have to make sense of — introspection, fragmentation, complexity of being, dealing with confliction.

Intuitively Gregory feels the need to always challenge myself to go further, not to accept things at face value and never settle — a need to go deeper and look at the places in ourselves we would
rather avoid.

His mission is to make work that allows us to embrace our insecurities without judgement. Making the statement: “Yeah, we’re all fucked up, but we’re doing the best we can.”

Gregory currently work and live in LA.

Artwork Themes & Subject Matter

Gregory Malphurs’s work explores new ways to approach figurative painting and drawing, with a
concentration in upending traditional portraiture. I’m interested in the complexities and
stories that lie beneath the surfaces of what our eye can see.

Press

Gregory Malphurs’s painting has been featured in Divide Magazine Issue 7 and Cut Me Up Magazine Issue 10.

Upcoming Exhibitions

WhenExhibition nameGallery
September
2024
Solo exhibition: ‘The Unsharp Mask:
Gregory Malphurs at Gallery 612′
Gallery 612
Santa Monica, CA. USA

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Education

Master’s degree from L’Ecole de Hard Knocks, New York, NY. United States

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024

The Unsharp Mask: Gregory Malphurs at Gallery 612, Gallery 612, Santa Monica, CA. United States

Perpetual Motion, Speedy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. United States

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

June, More Disruption: Representational Art In Flux, Oceanside Museum of Art,
Oceanside, CA. United States

Featured Collection, Gallery 612, Los Angeles, CA. United States

2023

Holiday Group Show, Speedy Gallery LA, Los Angeles, CA. United States

Cut Me Up: Transitions, Kolaj Fest – New Orleans, LA. United States

2022

Cavernous Perspectives, Speedy Gallery LA – Los Angeles, CA. United States

Facing The Future, Gibson Contemporary, New York City, NY. United States

The Other Art Fair Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. United States

Cut & Paste, Artvoice Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The Other Art Fair Dalles, Dallas, TX. United States

The Other Art Fair Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. United States

2021

The Other Art Fair Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY. United States

The Other Art Fair Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. United States

Art In The Time of Corona, H Gallery, Ventura, TX. United States

Portraits – Adjacent Curated Collection, Art In Res, New York, NY. United States

The Oratory of The Passion, Jelmoni Studio Gallery, Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio,
Milan, Italy

2020

This Land Is Your Land: Reflections on the Nature of Belonging, The Other Art Fair Dallas, Dallas, TX. United States

Neutral Gestures: Mark-Making in a Harmonious Palette, The Other Art Fair Dallas, Dallas, TX. United States

Blurred Lines: Abstraction Meets Figuration, The Other Art Fair Los Angeles -Santa Monica, CA. United States

The Bi-Weekly Curate: SPOOKY, Art In Res, New York, NY. United States

Featured Artist Gallery, Arches Paper, Arches, France

Art In The Time of Corona – A Global Art Fair, DAB Art Gallery, Los Angeles,
CA. United States

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