| Artist | Gregory Malphurs | Resides | United States |
| Website | gregorymalphursart.com | Medium | Oil Graphite |
| Print Shop | gregorymalphurs.shop | [email protected] | |
| Representing Gallery | Speed Gallery Santa Monica, CA. USA Gallery 612 Santa Monica, CA. USA | Themes | Modern Portraiture Human Complexity |
| Follow the Artist | Instagram | Facebook | Press | gregorymalphursart.com/press |
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
| When | Exhibition name | Gallery |
| 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
