Rhode Island-based abstract expressionist painter Anthony Gregg utilizes external and internal inspirational sources to build and create connections between infinite points. There’s a palpable visual play of tension and calm, unexpected results, and delightful surprises that construct and weave associations throughout each work. Broad sweeping color motions move both away from and toward eruptions of gestural scrapings and smears; multi-layered color and movement create tension, and, in other instances, calm depending on the intensity of the tones and patterns. The fluidity of the medium, drip techniques, and palette knife scrapings and smears combine with expressive movements to allow for chance happenings on the canvas. All of these ingredients intermingle and react with one another in a visual dance. The goal is to capture the chaos, emotion, energy, and inherent beauty that life experience stirs in all of us when viewing it. Every painting is an experiment, every piece an opportunity to reveal something undiscovered and new. Anthony Gregg holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Bowling Green State University and has been actively painting since 1998. Anthony has appeared in The Huts Magazine, Purposeful Mayo and Collect Art Autumn publications. 

My work is primarily an introspective expression, a product of my environment and the events that happen within it, past and present. Upon this framework, I attempt to build an emotional connection between myself, the painting, and to the observer. Comfort and chaos, safety and strife, power and stillness. It’s this dichotomy that I find so compelling and challenging to capture. I almost exclusively use acrylic and latex paint as its generally quick drying time lends itself to fast-paced decisions and movements, increasing the occurrences of unpredictability and chance happenings which add depth, excitement, and meaning to every piece.