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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS/EVENTS:
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS/EVENTS:
RECENT EXHIBITIONS/EVENTS:
September 11- September 27, 2008
-JTHAR 8 Artist 08, Studio 62 Gallery, Yucca Valley, CA
September 13-October 11, 2008
-Recipient of 2008 Joshua Tree Highlands House Artist Residency
STATEMENT:
The meaning of my work is sparked by the mysterious interaction of the viewer with the painting. In that intimate and delicate instant a resounding recognition occurs--an awareness of something sacred, ineffable and entirely personal. My work interacts with and challenges the viewer in much the same way as music and poetry: a lyrical moment, suspended in time, that evolves with closer readings. The significance is not fixed but fluid and depends entirely on what one brings to the encounter.
Simply put, I want people to look, to think and to create. I want my paintings to incite the viewer’s imagination which--symbiotically--breathes meaning into the piece. My abstraction purposefully dances in and out of
ready-made comprehension. Shapes, lines and colors may superficially carve out the human form, a landscape, or a potato; and one may identify a style, a technique or a movement, but only for a moment. Figuration is flirtatiously concealed and allusions are left cloudy so that the painting exists as a truly unique expression awaiting the procreative gaze of the viewer.
RESUME:
Born Columbia, Maryland, 1978
EDUCATION:
2001 Graduate Coursework in Painting, University of Maryland, College Park
2001 Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art, University of Maryland, College Park
2000 Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, University of Maryland, College Park
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2009 AXD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (January 30th-February 28th)
2008 Recent Work by Greg Minah, Fusion Gallery, Collingswood, New Jersey
2008 Distortions, Fusion Gallery, Collingswood, New Jersey
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2008 JTHAR 8 Artists of 08, Studio 62 Gallery, Yucca Valley, California
2008 Grand Opening Show, Baltimore 321 Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2007 Universal Currents, Mark Whistler Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
2007 Out of Order, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland
2006 Vastu Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2004 Artomatic, Washington, D.C.
2004 Fourth Annual Juried Exhibition of Environmental Art, Baltimore, MD
2004 1460 Wall Mountables, District of Columbia Arts Center
2004 AROMA, Washington, D.C.
2004 Art Store Show, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
2002 PVC Spheres, Installed at The Art Building, University of Maryland
2001 Graduate Thesis Exhibition, West Gallery, University of Maryland
SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS:
2008 Named “Artist of the Month” by Liquitex Paint, December 2008
2008 Recipient of the Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency Program
2004 Selected by Critic Milena Kachovska of The Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden as one of the Top Ten artists showing at Artomatic
2001 Colonel Wharton Award for Painting, University of Maryland
2000 Recognized in the Sadat Center for Peace Art Competition, 2001
COLLECTIONS:
Private Collections
CONTACT:
email: gminah@gmail.com
telephone: 410.458.3098
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