Gary Honig

I was born in Washington D.C. in 1954, the year Elvis Presley recorded his first record, I am a child of rock and roll. Being part of the original baby boomers, I enjoyed my formative years watching the transformation of this country through the sixties. My immediate peers were heavily involved in music which included being in bands, touring and producing on various levels.
My college education did not result in graduation as my life outside University was becoming more interesting. This is fairly typical of individuals who are more into doing than being told what to do. Many years of making music, producing albums, touring on the road and odd jobs here and there eventually brought me to being a $5 an hour house painter’s helper.
Being ambitious, for the next decade I painted houses and buildings. It was during this period, I came to fully understand how proper use of applications results in a better outcomes. How to best prepare a surface, how different paint products interact with each other, I became an expert painter. My high point was painting a dozen 6 over 6 double hung windows in one day – in other words, an exceptional amount of precision production painting.
Mix this with an innate ability to seek out new connections, ...

University of North Carolina

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Touchstone Gallery: - Oct - Nov 2008 | “These Dreams of You”
Bussolati building: 2009 - 2010
Studio 1469 Art Gallery: June 2013 | “Every Picture Tells A Story”
White Cloud Gallery: June 2018 | “Small Steps (do big changes make)”
CoveHQ Workspace: 2018 – current | Dupont Circle, D.C.
DCAC Nano Gallery: Oct 2020 – Jan 2021 | “A Native Son”

Selected Group Exhibitions:
WPA (Washington Project for the Arts): 1993 | Art Auction Washington DC
Studio 1019: September 1999 |The Red Party Washington DC
MD Tech Council: 2005 | Art Auction Rockville MD
Artomatic: 2007 Crystal City, VA
Upstairs on 7th Boutique: May 2010 Washington DC
DC Week: Nov 2011| Brightest Young Things Washington DC
Women for Afghan Women: April 2017 | Art Auction New York, NY
Hole in the Sky Collective: Dec 2018 Washington DC
Human Rights Campaign: September 2019 | Art Auction Washington DC
Superfine! Art Fair: October 2019 Washington DC
DCArts Center: August 2020 Washington DC
Art Enables: September 2020 Washington DC Outside Forces
Touchstone Gallery: December 2020 Washington DC Spotlight
David Jones Gallery: March 2021 Kansas City MO
Maryland Art Place: May 2021 Out of Order
Pigments and Oil Gallery: June 2021 –...