Greg Rivera

For the last five years I've been on an exploratory artscience research agenda in Bilbao and Mundaka, Basque Country, Spain; Auroville (City of Dawn), Tamil Nadu, India; Monte Carlo, Monaco; Frankfurt, Germany; Joensuu, Finland; Singapore; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Shark River Hills on the Jersey Shore; Broome St. in NYC; Puebla, Mexico; and now in the Ft. Worth/Dallas MetroPlex, a megacity of seven million people.

STATEMENT: My intent is to paint works that will take your breath away. Images that will bring your soul to the edge of the cliff to soar in your own mindfulness.

Based on my ArtScience doctorate I am working in the new field of neuroaesthetics and imaging neuroplasticity in contemporary art: The artist/scientist has the potential of enabling a higher-periphery brain structure intelligence through imagery. Both artist/scientist and viewer collaborate to be congruent in higher levels of abstraction. Both can mutually suspend beliefs of present world views (with threads of phobias, pain, and fears) to enter a transcendence thru guiding imagery. The intent is to align the heart/brain into an exploratory perceptional and behavioral witnessing process. The alignment creates a molecular, biological and cultural path to dev...

Ph.D. in ArtScience, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2005. Trained at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Pratt Institute in NYC and MIT Visible Language Workshop in Cambridge.

ONE-PERSON SHOW
Recent Works On Paper, Esotherica, Ft. Worth, 2015
Brainy Image, GFG at Chadra, Ft. Worth, Texas, 2015
Mesas de oasis, Triángulo Las Ánimas, Pop-Up Gallery, Puebla, Mexico, 2014
New Paintings, Teatro Campos Elíseos, Bilbao, 2013
SOMOS, Garabia, ZAWP-Off Bilbao, 2012
One Painting, A's Wave, New York City, 2012
Viña, Singular Wine Bar, Bilbao, 2011
SELECTED GROUP
One Hundred Years Of Painting, Riverside Arts District Pop-Up Gallery, Ft. Worth, Texas, 2015
New Artists, Jeffrey Meier Gallery, Lambertville, New Jersey, 2015
Friends of A5A, Arts 5th Ave. Center Gallery, Ft. Worth, 2014
Artist Coalition Open, Art 7/Crockett Gallery, Ft. Worth, 2014
9" x 12" Works On Paper, Ft. Worth Community Arts Center, 2014
Emerging Globals, group show, AmiArte, Bilbao, 2013

EXHIBIT ADVISOR, CURATOR, PRODUCER
Power of Image – Past Migrations: Images and Icons from the Surinam Rain Forest, South America, Brant Gallery, Mass College of Art, Boston
Malcolm X, Brant Gallery, Mass College of Art, Boston
Arte Virtual/Realidad Plural, Museo de Monterrey, México
Día de los Muertos, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Día de los Muertos, Boston Children's Museum, Boston
Proyecto ESE, Boston Computer Museu...