Greg Letson

Visual Artist: painting/sculpture & photography
Lives and works in Hoboken, NJ

"My work is improvisational in that I begin each piece with no pre-visualization or plan, all I bring is myself and my focused attention. Marks and shapes assemble themselves with my help and fall into relationships with each other. I completely avoid didacticism and illustration in my work; I don't make thematic pieces that aim at depicting anything overtly. Yet, all my works are vested with meaning in that they are imbued with my state of mind at the time of their making. So, thoughts, concepts, quotations, moods, and visual memories all find their places in my works.
Probably my greatest challenge is to capture essences and states of being that transcend spoken and written language.
Whether my work is regarded as pure abstraction - visuals with no programmed purpose, or as representational work - which captures the likenesses of immaterial things... it is of no particular matter to me.
Despite the deeply personal nature of my work, once each piece is finished and is released out into the world, it resonates and converses with each viewer in it's own way.
My works speak of many particular things and while each piece has a very particular me...

Boston University, Boston, Massachussetts
Punahou School, Honolulu, Hi

-WHO ARE WE, WHO AM I, Grace Van Vorst Church, for JC ProArts, Jersey City, NJ 2018
Bithika Adhikary, Dorie Dahlberg, Deirdre Kennedy, Stephen Krasner and Nupur Nishith, curators

-DREAMS & DECAY, Atlantic Highlands Arts Council Gallery, Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 2018. Group Photography Show. Christy O'Connor, curator

-ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS, Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NYC, for LICA, 2018. Group Exhibition. Nancy Gesimondo, curator

-JC TO AC, Noyes Museum, Atlantic City 2018. Group exhibition. Jim Pustorino & Anne Trauben, curators

-PATTERN AND STRUCTURE, Fine Arts Gallery, Saint Peter's University, Jersey City, NJ. 2018. Beatrice Mady, curator. One of four artists featured.

-WHAT'S NEXT, The Gallery Space, Rahway, NJ, 2018
Group show. Deirdre Kennedy & Mollie Thonnenson, curators

-THE BIG SMALL SHOW, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ. Group Show, Anne Trauben, curator

-WHAT'S NEXT, JC ProArts for JCAST, Harborside, Jersey City, NJ, 2017. Group Show
Deirdre Kennedy & Mollie Thonnenson, Curators

-PICTURAE SIMPLEX, Paintings & Digital works 2014-17, Northern Lights, NYC, 2017
Solo Exhibition of Paintings & Digital works from The Numbered Series

-SOLSTICE, Rotunda Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, 2017
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