Greg Gossel

Greg Gossel was born in 1982 in Baldwin, Wisconsin. After high school, he continued at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, for a major in design in 2005. After establishing his painting technique, his work began to express an interplay of many diverse words, images, and gestures. His career continues to develop, with varieties of multi-layered paintings on canvas and paper illustrating a visual history of change, in media infiltration throughout the use of commercial images. To gain his desired affect, he splatters paint, screen-prints images, photo transfers text, stencils, and lacquers building a complex and rich image surface. Based in street art techniques, these methods depict the chaos in American society. Giving a nod to pop art and graffiti, he depicts the current events in contemporary society with a new take those periods.
Since his first show with Shooting Gallery in 2006 he has been extremely prolific, showing from Red Dot art fair in New York May 2008, to Red Dot art fair London October 2008, [http://www.coreyhelfordgallery.com/?#/future/Los Angeles] in November 2008 and Aqua Art Miami December 2008. He currently resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota and is represented by Justin Giarla of the Shooting Gallery in San Francisco, CA.

“My work is about life, the struggle, and the beauty. I try to accomplish this through the interplay of many diverse words, images, and gestures. I’m interested in process - building up a surface and layering a variety of mediums; spraying, printing, splashing, erasing, dripping, and writing in a very loose and spontaneous way. When a piece is finished, I want it to illustrate a visual history of change, process, and expression.” Greg Gossel

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