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American artist Michael Gregory

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Oil painting by American artist Michael Gregory

Oil painting by American artist Michael Gregory

American artist Michael Gregory was born in Los Angeles in 1955. Michael Gregory paints photo-realistic landscapes that are composed of different buildings and places, collected and re-created by him in the studio. Unlike traditional paintings, painted in the open air, his works are primarily the scenery in which the human drama is played out. His richly detailed oil landscapes are highly realistic, though painted from imagination and memory. While he paints from his imagination, his landscapes often appear true to life and rich in detail. Michael Gregory is known for his luminous use of color and characteristically limited palette of whites. Michael Gregory lives and works in Bolinas, California

Dry Lightning, 2014. Oil painting by American artist Michael Gregory

Dry Lightning, 2014. Oil painting by American artist Michael Gregory

Michael Gregory received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1980, and currently lives and works in the Bay Area. His realistic paintings are in many private and public collections including the Delaware Art Museum, the Denver Art Museum, The U.S. Trust Company in New York, Microsoft Corporation, General Mills Corporation, The Arkansas Art Center, Bank of America and Champion International Corporation, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The Hunter Museum of Art, and the San Jose Museum of Art

Four Corners, 2012. Oil painting by American artist Michael Gregory

Four Corners, 2012. Oil painting by American artist Michael Gregory

Little Belt, 2013. Oil painting by American realist painter Michael Gregory

Little Belt, 2013. Oil painting by American realist painter Michael Gregory

Little Martha, 2014. Oil painting by American realist painter Michael Gregory

Little Martha, 2014. Oil painting by American artist Michael Gregory

Roan Hill, 2014. Oil painting by American realist painter Michael Gregory

Roan Hill, 2014. Oil painting by American realist painter Michael Gregory

Sand Hill, 2013. Oil painting by American realist painter Michael Gregory

Sand Hill, 2013. Oil painting by American artist Michael Gregory

Sparrows Wing, 2014. Oil painting by American realist painter Michael Gregory

Sparrows Wing, 2014. Oil painting by American realist painter Michael Gregory

Things of August, 2014. Oil painting by American realist painter Michael Gregory

Things of August, 2014. Oil painting by American artist Michael Gregory

Untitled, 2012. Oil painting by American realist painter Michael Gregory

Untitled, 2012. Oil painting by American artist Michael Gregory

Veil, 2014. Oil painting by American realist painter Michael Gregory

Veil, 2014. Oil painting by American realist painter Michael Gregory

Long Way Home is the exhibition of paintings by Michael Gregory at John Berggruen Gallery July 10 – August 16, 2014. Long Way Home derives from Gregory’s travels in his own backyard––the scenic landscape of Northern and Central California. For Gregory, exploring and experiencing the unknown or the unusual is a fundamental quality of humanity, something he calls a “genetic necessity.” Gregory captures in his landscapes, which simultaneously oscillate between the bucolic and the eerie, an unparalleled sense of quiet stillness paired with an overwhelming appreciation for the vastness of this continent

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