Installation Views, 1990-2023

New Name Installation, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, 1990

All My Friends are Painters, Addison Ripley Gallery, Washington DC, 2012

Recent Work, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia, 2014

Recent Work, Visual Arts Center, Portsmouth, Virginia, 2014

Convergence: Paintings by Chris Gregson, Magnolia Laurie and Dan Treado, Mclean Projects for the Arts, Mclean, Virginia 2016

 

In Place, Randolph Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, 2017

Stacks, Layers and Rows, Rawls Museum, Courtland, Virginia, 2019

The Garden, Piedmont Art Center, Martinsville, Virginia, 2020

Rows, Ridderhof-Martin Gallery, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 2021

The Garden, Mattatuck Museum, Waterburg, Connecticut, 2022

Nothing is Important, Cite Internatioanle des Arts, Paris, France 2023

Together, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, Virginia, 2023

 

Early Work/Bridgewater College

Self Portrait, Graphite on Paper, 1981

The Swimmer, Oil on Canvas, 1984

West Virginia Mountain Road, Pastel on Paper, c 1985

Maiden, Oil on Canvas, c 1985

Moondance (after Van Morrison) Gouache on Paper, c 1995

Geo Town, Oil on Canvas, 2015

Still Water, Oil on Panel, 2017

Brooklyn Botanical Garden

The summer garden has such variety. There was a summer breeze. The sky was blue with passing clouds.

A picture

 Plants die but pictures last forever.

MOMA garden

Light

There is a glow at certain times of the day. You walk around the corner and you see something magnificent.

 

Friday

I went to the upper east side and went to a few galleries. Later I went to the lower east side and soho and saw more work. Soho was quite and the cobblestone streets seemed to enhance a historical empty feel to the evening. I went on to Strand Books and walked thru Union Square.  Walking is a great way to think.

 

 

Vincent Van Gogh’s Cypress Trees

Any motif an artist chooses is something to be studied. Van Gogh focused on sunflowers, cypress and olive trees. Selecting a motif is just a starting place to apply paint in my point of view. It gives you a form to color. I find my gestural marks a place to start. The show at the the Metropolitan Museum compliments the show I saw at the Art Institute of Chicago just weeks ago. 

The weather is hot but there is a breeze. New Yorkers are complaining about the heat. Many leave the city if they can at this time of the year.