Gregory Botts
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Earth in Sky 1, 2008, oil on canvas, 36 x 78
Each summer I paint landscape paintings traveling to various teaching jobs. The paintings become the focus of my work each year back in NYC.
Painting in the landscape makes one aware of the passing of each moment, the so called "death" of these moments is as Wallace Stevens, the American poet said the "mother of beauty." Painting in my studio in NYC still allows me to find the formal means which comunicate at the complex level of art.
It is with this sentiment that I continue a reverence for the cycle of life I paint and am an example of a hope for the planet, which I am part.
VSC is a place where the community of art dialogue continues outside of an urban environment and the individual has the time and space to continue an individual art investigation, "out of intense personal necessity."
Earth in Sky 1, 96 x 90, oil on canvas
Born: Harrisburg, PA
Gregory Botts attended the School of Visual Arts in 1970-72. He won a scholarship to the Skowhegan School in Maine in 1972. He began showing at the Anne Plumb Gallery, in NYC in 1983 and held 10 one person shows there through 1992. In 1993 he began painting in the western US and has taught at the University of California various quarters through the 1980's into the present. He was most recently represented by the Salander O'Reilly Gallery in NYC and The Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico where he also keeps a studio. He still paints in NYC on the Brooklyn waterfront and has recently taught at the NY Studio School and at the National Academy School.
Part for a Whole, 2009, revolving, oil on canvas, 36 x 78
Blue remembered hills. #5, 2001-06,
oil on canvas, 24x 24
Aspen Night, 2006, oil on canvas, 48 x 36
Fluent Mundo #1, 2008, oil on canvas, 24 sq
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