Photo-Realistic Roadway Oil Paintings by Gregory Thielker

rtwork of Gregory Thielker.

Gregory lives in Delhi and Washington, DC, and graduated from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri with an MFA in Painting in 2005. He also graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts with a BA in Art History with Honors  in 2002. He's participated in dozens of exhibitions and accumulated a number of Awards, Fellowships, and Residencies. 

To read more on Gregory visit: http://www.gregorythielker.com

Gregory Thielker:

UNDER THE UNMINDING SKY

These paintings reflect my interest in the way that the road delineates and controls how we experience landscape. From the roadway perspective, we not only travel from one place to another, we see landscape in a varied and complex manner. I use water on the windshield to create a shifting lens for the way we see the environment: it both highlights and obscures our viewing. Perspectives slip and compress, while shapes and colors merge into one another. I also work with relationships between surface and depth, between flatness and illusion. These images are born out of real experience and have a close relationship with the medium of painting: its fluidity, transparency, and capacity for layering, mixing, and blending.